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 …

Catalysts open up new reaction pathways that can speed up chemical reactions while not
consuming the catalyst. A similar phenomenon has been discovered in quantum information …

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 …

We expand the standard thermodynamic framework of a system coupled to a thermal
reservoir by considering a stream of independently prepared units repeatedly put into …

We investigate the connection between recent results in quantum thermodynamics and
fluctuation relations by adopting a fully quantum mechanical description of thermodynamics …

Thermodynamics at the nanoscale is known to differ significantly from its familiar
macroscopic counterpart: The possibility of state transitions is not determined by free energy …

Systems that are driven out of thermal equilibrium typically dissipate random quantities of
energy on microscopic scales. Crooks fluctuation theorem relates the distribution of these …

Thermodynamics connects our knowledge of the world to our capability to manipulate and
thus to control it. This crucial role of control is exemplified by the third law of …

Recently, there has been much progress in understanding the thermodynamics of quantum
systems, even for small individual systems. Most of this work has focused on the standard …

Thermal operations are a generic description for allowed state transitions under
thermodynamic restrictions. However, the quest for simpler methods to encompass all these …