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 …

A quantum heat engine driven by atomic collisions

Q Bouton, J Nettersheim, S Burgardt, D Adam… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Quantum heat engines are subjected to quantum fluctuations related to their discrete energy
spectra. Such fluctuations question the reliable operation of thermal machines in the …

Strong coupling thermodynamics of open quantum systems

Á Rivas - Physical review letters, 2020‏ - APS
A general thermodynamic framework is presented for open quantum systems in fixed contact
with a thermal reservoir. The first and second law are obtained for arbitrary system-reservoir …

Non-Markovianity and negative entropy production rates

P Strasberg, M Esposito - Physical Review E, 2019‏ - APS
Entropy production plays a fundamental role in nonequilibrium thermodynamics to quantify
the irreversibility of open systems. Its positivity can be ensured for a wide class of setups, but …

Spin quantum heat engines with shortcuts to adiabaticity

B Çakmak, ÖE Müstecaplıoğlu - Physical Review E, 2019‏ - APS
We consider a finite-time quantum Otto cycle with single-and two spin-1/2 systems as its
working medium. To mimic adiabatic dynamics at a finite time, we employ a shortcut-to …

Non-Markovian thermal operations boosting the performance of quantum heat engines

K Ptaszyński - Physical Review E, 2022‏ - APS
It is investigated whether non-Markovianity, ie, the memory effects resulting from the
coupling of the system to its environment, can be beneficial for the performance of quantum …

Non-Hermitian pseudomodes for strongly coupled open quantum systems: Unravelings, correlations, and thermodynamics

P Menczel, K Funo, M Cirio, N Lambert, F Nori - Physical Review Research, 2024‏ - APS
The pseudomode framework provides an exact description of the dynamics of an open
quantum system coupled to a non-Markovian environment. Using this framework, the …

Repeated interactions and quantum stochastic thermodynamics at strong coupling

P Strasberg - Physical review letters, 2019‏ - APS
The thermodynamic framework of repeated interactions is generalized to an arbitrary open
quantum system in contact with a heat bath. Based on these findings, the theory is then …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamics of a strongly coupled quantum heat engine—Computing bath observables from the hierarchy of pure states

V Boettcher, R Hartmann, K Beyer… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2024‏ - pubs.aip.org
We present a fully quantum dynamical treatment of a quantum heat engine and its baths
based on the Hierarchy of Pure States (HOPS), an exact and general method for open …