Quantum resource theories

E Chitambar, G Gour - Reviews of modern physics, 2019 - APS
Quantum resource theories (QRTs) offer a highly versatile and powerful framework for
studying different phenomena in quantum physics. From quantum entanglement to quantum …

Quantum engines and refrigerators

LM Cangemi, C Bhadra, A Levy - Physics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
Engines are systems and devices that convert one form of energy into another, typically into
a more useful form that can perform work. In the classical setup, physical, chemical, and …

Symmetry restoration and quantum Mpemba effect in symmetric random circuits

S Liu, HK Zhang, S Yin, SX Zhang - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Entanglement asymmetry, which serves as a diagnostic tool for symmetry breaking and a
proxy for thermalization, has recently been proposed and studied in the context of symmetry …

Restrictions on realizable unitary operations imposed by symmetry and locality

I Marvian - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
According to a fundamental result in quantum computing, any unitary transformation on a
composite system can be generated using so-called 2-local unitaries that act only on two …

Noncommuting conserved charges in quantum thermodynamics and beyond

S Majidy, WF Braasch Jr, A Lasek, T Upadhyaya… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Thermodynamic systems typically conserve quantities (known as charges) such as energy
and particle number. The charges are often assumed implicitly to commute with each other …

Quantum thermal absorption machines: refrigerators, engines and clocks

MT Mitchison - Contemporary Physics, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The inexorable miniaturisation of technologies, the relentless drive to improve efficiency and
the enticing prospect of boosting performance through quantum effects are all compelling …

Non-abelian eigenstate thermalization hypothesis

C Murthy, A Babakhani, F Iniguez, M Srednicki… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) explains why nonintegrable quantum many-
body systems thermalize internally if the Hamiltonian lacks symmetries. If the Hamiltonian …

Critical phase and spin sharpening in SU (2)-symmetric monitored quantum circuits

S Majidy, U Agrawal, S Gopalakrishnan, AC Potter… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Monitored quantum circuits exhibit entanglement transitions at certain measurement rates.
Such a transition separates phases characterized by how much information an observer can …

An introductory review of the resource theory approach to thermodynamics

M Lostaglio - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
I give a self-contained introduction to the resource theory approach to quantum
thermodynamics. I will introduce in an elementary manner the technical machinery …

Non-Abelian transport distinguishes three usually equivalent notions of entropy production

T Upadhyaya, WF Braasch Jr, GT Landi, NY Halpern - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
We extend entropy production to a deeply quantum regime involving noncommuting
conserved quantities. Consider a unitary transporting conserved quantities (“charges”) …