Quantum optimal control in quantum technologies. Strategic report on current status, visions and goals for research in Europe

CP Koch, U Boscain, T Calarco, G Dirr… - EPJ Quantum …, 2022 - epjqt.epj.org
Quantum optimal control, a toolbox for devising and implementing the shapes of external
fields that accomplish given tasks in the operation of a quantum device in the best way …

Key issues review: useful autonomous quantum machines

JAM Guzmán, P Erker, S Gasparinetti… - Reports on Progress …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Controlled quantum machines have matured significantly. A natural next step is to
increasingly grant them autonomy, freeing them from time-dependent external control. For …

Collective advantages in finite-time thermodynamics

A Rolandi, P Abiuso, M Perarnau-Llobet - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
A central task in finite-time thermodynamics is to minimize the excess or dissipated work W
diss when manipulating the state of a system immersed in a thermal bath. We consider this …

Universal bound on energy cost of bit reset in finite time

YZ Zhen, D Egloff, K Modi, O Dahlsten - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We consider how the energy cost of bit reset scales with the time duration of the protocol. Bit
reset necessarily takes place in finite time, where there is an extra penalty on top of the …

Thermal recall: Memory-assisted Markovian thermal processes

J Czartowski, A de Oliveira Junior, K Korzekwa - PRX Quantum, 2023 - APS
We develop a resource-theoretic framework that allows one to bridge the gap between two
approaches to quantum thermodynamics based on Markovian thermal processes (which …

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 …
J Xuereb, P Erker, F Meier, MT Mitchison, M Huber - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
In order to unitarily evolve a quantum system, an agent requires knowledge of time, a
parameter that no physical clock can ever perfectly characterize. In this Letter, we study how …
From a thermodynamic point of view, all clocks are driven by irreversible processes.
Additionally, one can use oscillatory systems to temporally modulate the thermodynamic flux …

Thermodynamic analysis of algorithmic cooling protocols: Efficiency metrics and improved designs

J Lin, NA Rodríguez-Briones, E Martín-Martínez… - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
Algorithmic cooling (AC) protocols have been predominantly studied for their cooling
capabilities, with limited attention paid to their thermodynamic properties. This work explores …