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 …

We introduce the idea of weakly coherent collisional models, where the elements of an
environment interacting with a system of interest are prepared in states that are …

Entropy production plays a fundamental role in nonequilibrium thermodynamics to quantify
the irreversibility of open systems. Its positivity can be ensured for a wide class of setups, but …

The Carnot cycle combines reversible isothermal and adiabatic strokes to obtain optimal
efficiency, at the expense of a vanishing power output. Quantum Carnot-analog cycles are …

Originally formulated for macroscopic machines, the laws of thermodynamics were recently
shown to hold for quantum systems coupled to ideal sources of work (external classical …

Quantum thermodynamics has emerged as a separate sub-discipline, revising the concepts
and laws of thermodynamics, at the quantum scale. In particular, there has been a disruptive …

Many inexplicable phenomena in low-temperature many-body physics are a result of
macroscopic quantum effects. Such macroscopic quantumness is often evaluated via long …

Given the evolution of an arbitrary open quantum system, we formulate a general and
unambiguous method to separate the internal energy change of the system into an entropy …

Optomechanical systems are promising platforms for controlled light-matter interactions.
They are capable of providing several fundamental and practical novel features when the …

We put forward the concept of work extraction from thermal noise by phase-sensitive
(homodyne) measurements of the noisy input followed by (outcome-dependent) unitary …