This topical review article gives an overview of the interplay between quantum information
theory and thermodynamics of quantum systems. We focus on several trending topics …

Two fundamental ingredients play a decisive role in the foundation of fluctuation relations:
the principle of microreversibility and the fact that thermal equilibrium is described by the …

One of the most widely known building blocks of modern physics is Heisenberg's
indeterminacy principle. Among the different statements of this fundamental property of the …

We derive a Margolus-Levitin-type bound on the minimal evolution time of an arbitrarily
driven open quantum system. We express this quantum speed limit time in terms of the …

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 …

Constraints on work extraction are fundamental to our operational understanding of the
thermodynamics of both classical and quantum systems. In the quantum setting, finite-time …

The attempt to gain a theoretical understanding of the concept of time in quantum mechanics
has triggered significant progress towards the search for faster and more efficient quantum …

We consider the speed limit for classical stochastic Markov processes with and without the
local detailed balance condition. We find that, for both cases, a trade-off inequality exists …

Autonomous engines operating at the nanoscale can be prone to deleterious fluctuations in
the heat and particle currents. Thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) express a …

Achieving effectively adiabatic dynamics is a ubiquitous goal in almost all areas of quantum
physics. Here, we study the speed with which a quantum system can be driven when …