At the dawn of thermodynamics, Carnot's constraint on efficiency of heat engines stimulated
the formulation of one of the most universal physical principles, the second law of …

The thermodynamic and kinetic uncertainty relations indicate trade-offs between the relative
fluctuation of observables and thermodynamic quantities such as dissipation and dynamical …

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations express a trade-off between precision, defined as the
noise-to-signal ratio of a generic current, and the amount of associated entropy production …

The full optimization of a quantum heat engine requires operating at high power, high
efficiency, and high stability (ie, low power fluctuations). However, these three objectives …

The thermodynamics of quantum systems driven out of equilibrium has attracted increasing
attention in the last decade, in connection with quantum information and statistical physics …

The state of an open quantum system undergoing an adiabatic process evolves by following
the instantaneous stationary state of its time-dependent generator. This observation allows …

Entropy production characterizes irreversibility. This viewpoint allows us to consider the
thermodynamic uncertainty relation, which states that a higher precision can be achieved at …

For driven open systems in contact with multiple heat reservoirs, we find the marginal
distributions of work or heat do not satisfy any fluctuation theorem, but only the joint …

Constructing optimal thermodynamic processes in quantum systems relies on managing the
balance between the average excess work and its stochastic fluctuations. Recently it has …

The emergence of irreversibility in physical processes, despite the fundamentally reversible
nature of quantum mechanics, remains an open question in physics. This thesis explores the …