A central task in finite-time thermodynamics is to minimize the excess or dissipated work W
diss when manipulating the state of a system immersed in a thermal bath. We consider this …

In this Letter, we explore the use of thermodynamic length to improve the performance of
experimental protocols. In particular, we implement Landauer erasure on a driven electron …

Landauer's principle gives a fundamental limit to the thermodynamic cost of erasing
information. Its saturation requires a reversible isothermal process, and hence infinite time …

To achieve efficient and reliable control of microscopic systems one should look for driving
protocols that mitigate both the average dissipation and stochastic fluctuations in work. This …

A nonequilibrium system is characterized by a set of thermodynamic forces and fluxes which
give rise to entropy production (EP). We show that these forces and fluxes have an …

The emergence of irreversibility in physical processes, despite the fundamentally reversible
nature of quantum mechanics, remains an open question in physics. This thesis explores the …

With the rapid development of the information technology (IT), heat transport and work cost
in the information processing system gain significant scientific interest, but their …

The Landauer principle sets a lower bound on the thermodynamic cost of qubit reset, which
is only attainable for the quasistatic process. In this Letter, we explore the collective …

Landauer's principle gives a fundamental limit to the thermodynamic cost of erasing
information. Its saturation requires a reversible isothermal process, and hence infinite time …

In practice, qubit reset must be operated in an extremely short time, which incurs a
thermodynamic cost within multiple orders of magnitude above the Landauer bound. We …