The ability of the internal states of a working fluid to be in a coherent superposition is one of
the basic properties of a quantum heat engine. It was recently predicted that in the regime of …

The dynamical convergence of a system to the thermal distribution, or Gibbs state, is a
standard assumption across all of the physical sciences. The Gibbs state is determined just …

Quantum batteries are miniature energy storage devices and play a very important role in
quantum thermodynamics. In recent years, quantum batteries have been extensively …

Derivation of a quantum master equation for a system weakly coupled to a bath which takes
into account nonsecular effects, but nevertheless has the mathematically correct Gorini …

The working substance fueling a quantum heat engine may contain coherence in its energy
basis, depending on the dynamics of the engine cycle. In some models of quantum Otto heat …

The quantum battery (QB) makes use of quantum effects to store and supply energy, which
may outperform its classical counterpart. However, there are two challenges in this field. One …

We study a minimal quantum Otto heat engine, where the working medium consists of an
interacting few-body system in a harmonic trap. This allows us to consider the interaction …

We consider a finite-time quantum Otto cycle with single-and two spin-1/2 systems as its
working medium. To mimic adiabatic dynamics at a finite time, we employ a shortcut-to …

Generalized measurements may allow the control of its back-action on the quantum system
by interpolating from a very weak to strong projective action. Such a measurement can fuel a …

We construct a quantum Markovian master equation for a driven system coupled to a
thermal bath. The derivation utilizes an explicit solution of the propagator of the driven …