The seminal work by Sadi Carnot in the early nineteenth century provided the blueprint of a
reversible heat engine and the celebrated second law of thermodynamics eventually …

Stochastic thermodynamics lays down a broad framework to revisit the venerable concepts
of heat, work and entropy production for individual stochastic trajectories of mesoscopic …

Thermodynamics originated in the need to understand novel technologies developed by the
Industrial Revolution. However, over the centuries, the description of engines, refrigerators …

We consider a finite-time quantum Otto cycle with single-and two spin-1/2 systems as its
working medium. To mimic adiabatic dynamics at a finite time, we employ a shortcut-to …

We develop a deep learning (DL) framework assisted by differentiable programming for
discovery of optimal quantum control protocols under hard constraints. To that end, we use …

Thermodynamics of quantum systems and quantum thermal machines are rapidly
developing fields, which have already delivered several promising results, as well as raised …

Real quantum heat engines lack the separation of time and length scales that is
characteristic for classical engines. They must be understood as open quantum systems in …

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 …

We examine a quantum Otto engine with a harmonic working medium consisting of two
particles to explore the use of wave function symmetry as an accessible resource. It is shown …

Quantum heat engines are modeled by thermodynamic cycles with quantum-mechanical
working media. Since high engine efficiencies require adiabaticity, a major challenge is to …