Quantum engines and refrigerators

LM Cangemi, C Bhadra, A Levy - Physics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
Engines are systems and devices that convert one form of energy into another, typically into
a more useful form that can perform work. In the classical setup, physical, chemical, and …

Quantum advantage in charging cavity and spin batteries by repeated interactions

R Salvia, M Perarnau-Llobet, G Haack, N Brunner… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Recently, an unconditional advantage has been demonstrated for the process of charging of
a quantum battery in a collisional model [Seah et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 100601 (2021) …

Quantum energetics of a noncommuting measurement

X Linpeng, N Piccione, M Maffei, L Bresque… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
When a measurement observable does not commute with a quantum system's Hamiltonian,
the energy of the measured system is typically not conserved during the measurement …

Limits on quantum measurement engines

G Perna, E Calzetta - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
A quantum measurement involves energy exchanges between the system to be measured
and the measuring apparatus. Some of them involve energy losses, for example because …

Transport and nonreciprocity in monitored quantum devices: an exact study

J Ferreira, T **, J Mannhart, T Giamarchi… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We study noninteracting fermionic systems undergoing continuous monitoring and driven by
biased reservoirs. Averaging over the measurement outcomes, we derive exact formulas for …

Transfer learning from Hermitian to non-Hermitian quantum many-body physics

S Sayyad, JL Lado - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Identifying phase boundaries of interacting systems is one of the key steps to understanding
quantum many-body models. The development of various numerical and analytical methods …

A thermodynamically consistent approach to the energy costs of quantum measurements

CL Latune, C Elouard - Quantum, 2025 - quantum-journal.org
Considering a general microscopic model for a quantum measuring apparatus comprising a
quantum probe coupled to a thermal bath, we analyze the energetic resources necessary for …

Constraining work fluctuations of non-Hermitian dynamics across the exceptional point of a superconducting qubit

S Erdamar, M Abbasi, B Ha, W Chen, J Muldoon… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
Thermodynamics constrains changes to the energy of a system, both deliberate and
random, via its first and second laws. When the system is not in equilibrium, fluctuation …

Exact description of transport and non-reciprocity in monitored quantum devices

J Ferreira, T **, J Mannhart, T Giamarchi… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We study non-interacting fermionic systems undergoing continuous monitoring and driven
by biased reservoirs. Averaging over the measurement outcomes, we derive exact formulas …

Inferring general links between energetics and information with unknown environment

J Liu, J Lu, C Wang, JH Jiang - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
Identifying general links between energetics and information in realistic open quantum
systems is a long-standing problem in quantum thermodynamics and quantum information …