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 …

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 …

Quantum thermodynamics is an emerging research field aiming to extend standard
thermodynamics and non-equilibrium statistical physics to ensembles of sizes well below …

Heat engines convert thermal energy into mechanical work and generally involve a large
number of particles. We report the experimental realization of a single-atom heat engine. An …

Developments in the thermodynamics of small quantum systems envisage nonclassical
thermal machines. In this scenario, energy fluctuations play a relevant role in the description …

Work and quantum correlations are two fundamental resources in thermodynamics and
quantum information theory. In this work, we study how to use correlations among quantum …

Classical thermodynamics is unrivalled in its range of applications and relevance to
everyday life. It enables a description of complex systems, made up of microscopic particles …

We propose a method to study the thermodynamic behaviour of small systems beyond the
weak coupling and Markovian approximation, which is different in spirit from conventional …

For a small driven system coupled strongly to a heat bath, internal energy and exchanged
heat are identified such that they obey the usual additive form of the first law. By identifying …

We develop a thermodynamic framework that describes a classical system of interest S that
is strongly coupled to its thermal environment E. Within this framework, seven key …