Shortcuts to adiabaticity provide fast protocols for quantum state preparation in which the
use of auxiliary counterdiabatic controls circumvents the requirement of slow driving in …

Counterdiabatic (CD) driving presents a way of generating adiabatic dynamics at an
arbitrary pace, where excitations due to nonadiabaticity are exactly compensated by adding …

A pedagogical introduction to counterdiabatic formalism of shortcuts to adiabaticity is given
so that readers can access some of the more specialized articles in the rest of this theme …

Quantum heat engines are modeled by thermodynamic cycles with quantum-mechanical
working media. Since high engine efficiencies require adiabaticity, a major challenge is to …

Shortcuts to Adiabaticity (STA) constitute driving schemes that provide an alternative to
adiabatic protocols to control and guide the dynamics of classical and quantum systems …

A universal scheme is introduced to speed up the dynamics of a driven open quantum
system along a prescribed trajectory of interest. This framework generalizes counterdiabatic …

A quantum heat engine (QHE) based on the interaction driving of a many-particle working
medium is introduced. The cycle alternates isochoric heating and cooling strokes with both …

We demonstrate the existence of universal features in the finite-time thermodynamics of
quantum machines by considering a many-body quantum Otto cycle in which the working …

Controlling many-body quantum systems is a highly challenging task required to advance
quantum technologies. Here, we report progress in controlling gapless many-body quantum …

Delta-kick cooling (DKC) is used to compress the momentum distribution of ultracold
quantum matter. It combines expansion dynamics with the use of kick pulses, designed via …