Quantum optimal control, a toolbox for devising and implementing the shapes of external
fields that accomplish given tasks in the operation of a quantum device in the best way …

The seminal work by Sadi Carnot in the early nineteenth century provided the blueprint of a
reversible heat engine and the celebrated second law of thermodynamics eventually …

Information is physical but information is also processed in finite time. Where computing
protocols are concerned, finite-time processing in the quantum regime can dynamically …

Isothermal transformations are minimally dissipative but slow processes, as the system
needs to remain close to thermal equilibrium along the protocol. Here, we show that …

Optimal control of two-qubit quantum systems attracts high interest due to applications
ranging from two-qubit gate generation to optimization of receiver for transferring coherence …

Quantum heat engines are modeled by thermodynamic cycles with quantum-mechanical
working media. Since high engine efficiencies require adiabaticity, a major challenge is to …

Incorporating time into thermodynamics allows for addressing the tradeoff between
efficiency and power. A qubit engine serves as a toy model in order to study this tradeoff …

High-fidelity generation of two-qubit gates is important for quantum computation, since such
gates are components of popular universal sets of gates. Here, we consider the problem of …

Underlying the classical thermodynamic principles are analogous microscopic laws, arising
from the fundamental axioms of quantum mechanics. These define quantum thermodynamic …

Control of open quantum systems is essential for the realization of contemporary quantum
science and technology. We demonstrate such control using a thermodynamically consistent …