Driving rapidly while remaining in control: classical shortcuts from Hamiltonian to stochastic dynamics

D Guéry-Odelin, C Jarzynski, CA Plata… - Reports on Progress …, 2023‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Stochastic thermodynamics lays down a broad framework to revisit the venerable concepts
of heat, work and entropy production for individual stochastic trajectories of mesoscopic …

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 …

Violating the thermodynamic uncertainty relation in the three-level maser

AAS Kalaee, A Wacker, PP Potts - Physical Review E, 2021‏ - APS
Nanoscale heat engines are subject to large fluctuations which affect their precision. The
thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) provides a trade-off between output power …

Pareto-optimal cycles for power, efficiency and fluctuations of quantum heat engines using reinforcement learning

PA Erdman, A Rolandi, P Abiuso… - Physical Review …, 2023‏ - APS
The full optimization of a quantum heat engine requires operating at high power, high
efficiency, and high stability (ie, low power fluctuations). However, these three objectives …

Periodically driven quantum thermal machines from warming up to limit cycle

J Liu, KA Jung, D Segal - Physical review letters, 2021‏ - APS
Theoretical treatments of periodically driven quantum thermal machines (PD-QTMs) are
largely focused on the limit-cycle stage of operation characterized by a periodic state of the …

Geometric thermodynamic uncertainty relation in a periodically driven thermoelectric heat engine

J Lu, Z Wang, J Peng, C Wang, JH Jiang, J Ren - Physical Review B, 2022‏ - APS
The thermodynamic uncertainty relation, quantifying a trade-off among average current, the
associated fluctuation (precision), and entropy production (cost), has been formulated at …

Dissipation-induced collective advantage of a quantum thermal machine

M Carrega, L Razzoli, PA Erdman, F Cavaliere… - AVS Quantum …, 2024‏ - pubs.aip.org
Do quantum correlations lead to better performance with respect to several different systems
working independently? For quantum thermal machines, the question is whether a working …

Engineering dynamical couplings for quantum thermodynamic tasks

M Carrega, LM Cangemi, G De Filippis, V Cataudella… - PRX quantum, 2022‏ - APS
Describing the thermodynamic properties of quantum systems far from equilibrium is
challenging, in particular when the system is strongly coupled to its environment, or when …

Dynamical heat engines with non-Markovian reservoirs

F Cavaliere, M Carrega, G De Filippis, V Cataudella… - Physical Review …, 2022‏ - APS
We discuss whether, and under which conditions, it is possible to realize a heat engine
simply by dynamically modulating the couplings between the quantum working medium and …

Hybrid quantum thermal machines with dynamical couplings

F Cavaliere, L Razzoli, M Carrega, G Benenti… - Iscience, 2023‏ - cell.com
Quantum thermal machines can perform useful tasks, such as delivering power, cooling, or
heating. In this work, we consider hybrid thermal machines, that can execute more than one …