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 …

Towards quantum thermodynamics in electronic circuits

JP Pekola - Nature physics, 2015 - nature.com
Electronic circuits operating at sub-kelvin temperatures are attractive candidates for studying
classical and quantum thermodynamics: their temperature can be controlled and measured …

What to learn from a few visible transitions' statistics?

PE Harunari, A Dutta, M Polettini, É Roldán - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
Interpreting partial information collected from systems subject to noise is a key problem
across scientific disciplines. Theoretical frameworks often focus on the dynamics of variables …

Quantum and information thermodynamics: A unifying framework based on repeated interactions

P Strasberg, G Schaller, T Brandes, M Esposito - Physical Review X, 2017 - APS
We expand the standard thermodynamic framework of a system coupled to a thermal
reservoir by considering a stream of independently prepared units repeatedly put into …

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 …

Experimental realization of a Szilard engine with a single electron

JV Koski, VF Maisi, JP Pekola, DV Averin - Proceedings of the National …, 2014 - pnas.org
The most succinct manifestation of the second law of thermodynamics is the limitation
imposed by the Landauer principle on the amount of heat a Maxwell demon (MD) can …

On-chip Maxwell's demon as an information-powered refrigerator

JV Koski, A Kutvonen, IM Khaymovich, T Ala-Nissila… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
We present an experimental realization of an autonomous Maxwell's demon, which extracts
microscopic information from a system and reduces its entropy by applying feedback. It is …

Thermodynamics with continuous information flow

JM Horowitz, M Esposito - Physical Review X, 2014 - APS
We provide a unified thermodynamic formalism describing information transfers in
autonomous as well as nonautonomous systems described by stochastic thermodynamics …

Extracting work from quantum measurement in Maxwell's demon engines

C Elouard, D Herrera-Martí, B Huard, A Auffeves - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
The essence of both classical and quantum engines is to extract useful energy (work) from
stochastic energy sources, eg, thermal baths. In Maxwell's demon engines, work extraction …

Thermoelectric energy harvesting with quantum dots

B Sothmann, R Sánchez, AN Jordan - Nanotechnology, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We review recent theoretical work on thermoelectric energy harvesting in multi-terminal
quantum-dot setups. We first discuss several examples of nanoscale heat engines based on …