Shortcuts to adiabaticity (STA) are fast routes to the final results of slow, adiabatic changes
of the controlling parameters of a system. The shortcuts are designed by a set of analytical …

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 …

The quantum Otto cycle serves as a bridge between the macroscopic world of heat engines
and the quantum regime of thermal devices composed from a single element. We compile …

Quantum adiabatic processes—that keep constant the populations in the instantaneous
eigenbasis of a time-dependent Hamiltonian—are very useful to prepare and manipulate …

We examine the stability versus different types of perturbations of recently proposed
shortcuts to adiabaticity to speed up the population inversion of a two-level quantum system …

Different methods have been recently put forward and implemented experimentally to
inverse engineer the time-dependent Hamiltonian of a quantum system and accelerate slow …

We design, by invariant-based inverse engineering, resonant laser pulses to perform fast
population transfers in three-level systems. The laser intensities to improve the fidelity or to …

Adiabatic manipulation of the quantum state is an essential tool in modern quantum
information processing. Here, we demonstrate the speedup of the adiabatic population …

Quantum speed limits set an upper bound to the rate at which a quantum system can evolve.
Adopting a phase-space approach, we explore quantum speed limits across the quantum-to …

We use the dynamical invariants associated with the Hamiltonian of an atom in a one
dimensional moving trap to inverse engineer the trap motion and perform fast atomic …