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 …

A central goal of thermodynamics is to identify optimal processes during which the least
amount of energy is dissipated into the environment. Generally, even for simple systems …

If a system is driven at finite rate through a phase transition by varying an intensive
parameter, the order parameter shatters into finite domains. The Kibble-Zurek mechanism …

The objective of this work is to show that adiabatic processes can be very similar to
isothermal ones. First, we show that the criteria for the compatibility of linear-response theory …

Knowing if an optimal solution is local or global has always been a hard question to answer
in more sophisticated situations of optimization problems. In this paper, for finite-time and …

The fluctuation-dissipation relation for the classical definition of work is extended to
thermally isolated systems, in classical and quantum realms. From this, the optimal work …

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