A physical system connected to two thermal reservoirs at different temperatures is said to act
as a heat rectifier when it is able to bias the heat current in a given direction, similarly to an …

Directed transport is a key concept for many ongoing applications including nanoscale heat
management, current rectification, source protection, and energy harvesting. Within the …

Quantum conductors attached to metallic reservoirs have been demonstrated to overcome
the thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR), a trade-off relation between the amount of …

This thesis aims to explore a set of thermodynamic approaches to characterize phenomena
involving energy and information manipulations taking place in superconducting circuits at …