Shortcuts to adiabaticity (STA) are fast routes to the final results of slow, adiabatic changes
of the controlling parameters of a system. The shortcuts are designed by a set of analytical …

One of the most widely known building blocks of modern physics is Heisenberg's
indeterminacy principle. Among the different statements of this fundamental property of the …

In these lecture notes, partly based on a course taught at the Karpacz Winter School in
March 2014, we explore the close connections between non-adiabatic response of a system …

Achieving effectively adiabatic dynamics is a ubiquitous goal in almost all areas of quantum
physics. Here, we study the speed with which a quantum system can be driven when …

We consider the optimization of a finite-time Carnot engine characterized by small
dissipations. We bound the power with a simple inequality and show that the optimal …

We present an overview of recent advances in the study of energy dynamics and
mechanisms for energy conversion in qubit systems with special focus on realizations in …

Differential geometry offers a powerful framework for optimising and characterising finite-
time thermodynamic processes, both classical and quantum. Here, we start by a …

The pace and unpredictability of evolution are critically relevant in a variety of modern
challenges, such as combating drug resistance in pathogens and cancer, understanding …

The dissipation generated during a quasistatic thermodynamic process can be
characterised by introducing a metric on the space of Gibbs states, in such a way that …

Tremendous research efforts have been invested in exploring and designing so-called
shortcuts to adiabaticity. These are finite-time processes that produce the same final states …