The statistical mechanical description of small systems staying in thermal equilibrium with an
environment can be achieved by means of the Hamiltonian of mean force. In contrast to the …

Controlling and measuring the temperature in different devices and platforms that operate in
the quantum regime is, without any doubt, essential for any potential application. In this …

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 …

We establish the foundations of a nonequilibrium theory of quantum thermodynamics for
noninteracting open quantum systems strongly coupled to their reservoirs within the …

We show that any heat definition expressed as an energy change in the reservoir energy
plus any fraction of the system-reservoir interaction is not an exact differential when …

Resource theories are a generic approach used to manage any valuable resource, such as
entanglement, purity, and asymmetry. Such frameworks are characterized by two main …

It is known that temperature estimates of macroscopic systems in equilibrium are most
precise when their energy fluctuations are large. However, for nanoscale systems deviations …

It is known that the equilibrium properties of open classical systems that are strongly coupled
to a heat bath are described by a set of thermodynamic potentials related to the system's …

We present a protocol for the study of the dynamics and thermodynamics of quantum
systems strongly coupled to a bath and subject to an external modulation. Our protocol …