Irreversible entropy production: From classical to quantum

GT Landi, M Paternostro - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021 - APS
Entropy production is a key quantity in any finite-time thermodynamic process. It is intimately
tied with the fundamental laws of thermodynamics, embodying a tool to extend …

Energy dynamics, heat production and heat–work conversion with qubits: toward the development of quantum machines

L Arrachea - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Propagating quantum microwaves: towards applications in communication and sensing

M Casariego, EZ Cruzeiro, S Gherardini… - Quantum Science …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The field of propagating quantum microwaves is a relatively new area of research that is
receiving increased attention due to its promising technological applications, both in …

Quantum thermodynamics under continuous monitoring: A general framework

G Manzano, R Zambrini - AVS Quantum Science, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
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 …

Daemonic ergotropy in continuously monitored open quantum batteries

D Morrone, MAC Rossi, MG Genoni - Physical Review Applied, 2023 - APS
The amount of work that can be extracted from a quantum system can be increased by
exploiting the information obtained from a measurement performed on a correlated ancillary …

Thermodynamics of a continuously monitored double-quantum-dot heat engine in the repeated interactions framework

LP Bettmann, MJ Kewming, J Goold - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
Understanding the thermodynamic role of measurement in quantum mechanical systems is
a burgeoning field of study. In this article, we study a double quantum dot (DQD) connected …

Battery charging in collision models with Bayesian risk strategies

GT Landi - Entropy, 2021 - mdpi.com
We constructed a collision model where measurements in the system, together with a
Bayesian decision rule, are used to classify the incoming ancillas as having either high or …

Anomalous Thermodynamic Cost of Clock Synchronization

C Yang, J Sheng, H Wu - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Clock synchronization is critically important in positioning, navigation and timing systems.
While its performance has been intensively studied in a wide range of disciplines, much less …

Informational steady states and conditional entropy production in continuously monitored systems

GT Landi, M Paternostro, A Belenchia - Prx Quantum, 2022 - APS
We put forth a unifying formalism for the description of the thermodynamics of continuously
monitored systems, where measurements are only performed on the environment connected …

Entropy production in continuously measured Gaussian quantum systems

A Belenchia, L Mancino, GT Landi… - npj Quantum …, 2020 - nature.com
The entropy production rate is a key quantity in nonequilibrium thermodynamics of both
classical and quantum processes. No universal theory of entropy production is available to …