Recent years have witnessed an explosion of interest in quantum devices for the production,
storage, and transfer of energy. This Colloquium concentrates on the field of quantum …

Advances in isolating, controlling and entangling quantum systems are transforming what
was once a curious feature of quantum mechanics into a vehicle for disruptive scientific and …

Can collective quantum effects make a difference in a meaningful thermodynamic
operation? Focusing on energy storage and batteries, we demonstrate that quantum …

One of the most widely known building blocks of modern physics is Heisenberg's
indeterminacy principle. Among the different statements of this fundamental property of the …

This review is devoted to the problem of thermalization in a small isolated conglomerate of
interacting constituents. A variety of physically important systems of intensive current interest …

The quantum Otto cycle serves as a bridge between the macroscopic world of heat engines
and the quantum regime of thermal devices composed from a single element. We compile …

We derive a Margolus-Levitin-type bound on the minimal evolution time of an arbitrarily
driven open quantum system. We express this quantum speed limit time in terms of the …

The evaluation of the minimal evolution time between two distinguishable states of a system
is important for assessing the maximal speed of quantum computers and communication …

Bounds to the speed of evolution of a quantum system are of fundamental interest in
quantum metrology, quantum chemical dynamics, and quantum computation. We derive a …

The attempt to gain a theoretical understanding of the concept of time in quantum mechanics
has triggered significant progress towards the search for faster and more efficient quantum …