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 …

Thermodynamics originated in the need to understand novel technologies developed by the
Industrial Revolution. However, over the centuries, the description of engines, refrigerators …

In this Colloquium recent advances in the field of quantum heat transport are reviewed. This
topic has been investigated theoretically for several decades, but only during the past 20 …

A quantum two-level system with periodically modulated energy splitting could provide a
minimal universal quantum heat machine. We present the experimental realization and the …

We develop a deep learning (DL) framework assisted by differentiable programming for
discovery of optimal quantum control protocols under hard constraints. To that end, we use …

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 …

The Carnot cycle combines reversible isothermal and adiabatic strokes to obtain optimal
efficiency, at the expense of a vanishing power output. Quantum Carnot-analog cycles are …

The optimal control of open quantum systems is a challenging task but has a key role in
improving existing quantum information processing technologies. We introduce a general …

We examine a quantum Otto engine with a harmonic working medium consisting of two
particles to explore the use of wave function symmetry as an accessible resource. It is shown …

We present a general unified approach for the study of quantum thermal machines,
including both heat engines and refrigerators, operating under periodic adiabatic driving …