The inexorable miniaturisation of technologies, the relentless drive to improve efficiency and
the enticing prospect of boosting performance through quantum effects are all compelling …

Controlled quantum machines have matured significantly. A natural next step is to
increasingly grant them autonomy, freeing them from time-dependent external control. For …

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

We investigate the connection between quantum resources and extractable work in
quantum batteries. We demonstrate that quantum coherence in the battery or the battery …

Constraints on work extraction are fundamental to our operational understanding of the
thermodynamics of both classical and quantum systems. In the quantum setting, finite-time …

Quantum heat engines are subjected to quantum fluctuations related to their discrete energy
spectra. Such fluctuations question the reliable operation of thermal machines in the …

Performance of nano-and microscale heat engines can be improved with the help of
quantum-mechanical phenomena. Recently, heat reservoirs with quantum coherence have …

Energy extraction is a central task in thermodynamics. In quantum physics, ergotropy
measures the amount of work extractable under cyclic Hamiltonian control. As its full …

Although entanglement is considered as an essential resource for quantum information
processing, whether entanglement helps for energy conversion or output in the quantum …

Following the rising interest in quantum information science, the extension of a heat engine
to the quantum regime by exploring microscopic quantum systems has seen a boon of …