Fundamental aspects of steady-state conversion of heat to work at the nanoscale

G Benenti, G Casati, K Saito, RS Whitney - Physics Reports, 2017 - Elsevier
In recent years, the study of heat to work conversion has been re-invigorated by
nanotechnology. Steady-state devices do this conversion without any macroscopic moving …

Quantum thermal machines and batteries

S Bhattacharjee, A Dutta - The European Physical Journal B, 2021 - Springer
The seminal work by Sadi Carnot in the early nineteenth century provided the blueprint of a
reversible heat engine and the celebrated second law of thermodynamics eventually …

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 …

Analog of a quantum heat engine using a single-spin qubit

K Ono, SN Shevchenko, T Mori, S Moriyama, F Nori - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
A quantum two-level system with periodically modulated energy splitting could provide a
minimal universal quantum heat machine. We present the experimental realization and the …

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 …

Experimental realization of a quantum dot energy harvester

G Jaliel, RK Puddy, R Sánchez, AN Jordan… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
We demonstrate experimentally an autonomous nanoscale energy harvester that utilizes the
physics of resonant tunneling quantum dots. Gate-defined quantum dots on GaAs/AlGaAs …

Thermoelectric conversion at 30 K in InAs/InP nanowire quantum dots

D Prete, PA Erdman, V Demontis, V Zannier… - Nano …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate high-temperature thermoelectric conversion in InAs/InP nanowire quantum
dots by taking advantage of their strong electronic confinement. The electrical conductance …

Identifying optimal cycles in quantum thermal machines with reinforcement-learning

PA Erdman, F Noé - npj Quantum Information, 2022 - nature.com
The optimal control of open quantum systems is a challenging task but has a key role in
improving existing quantum information processing technologies. We introduce a general …

Maximum power and corresponding efficiency for two-level heat engines and refrigerators: optimality of fast cycles

PA Erdman, V Cavina, R Fazio, F Taddei… - New Journal of …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We study how to achieve the ultimate power in the simplest, yet non-trivial, model of a
thermal machine, namely a two-level quantum system coupled to two thermal baths. Without …

Heat rectification through single and coupled quantum dots

L Tesser, B Bhandari, PA Erdman… - New Journal of …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We study heat rectification through quantum dots in the Coulomb blockade regime using a
master equation approach. We consider both cases of two-terminal and four-terminal …