Energy dynamics, heat production and heat–work conversion with qubits: toward the development of quantum machines

L Arrachea - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an overview of recent advances in the study of energy dynamics and
mechanisms for energy conversion in qubit systems with special focus on realizations in …

Thermodynamic uncertainty relation for time-dependent driving

T Koyuk, U Seifert - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Thermodynamic uncertainty relations yield a lower bound on entropy production in terms of
the mean and fluctuations of a current. We derive their general form for systems under …

Thermodynamics of precision in Markovian open quantum dynamics

T Van Vu, K Saito - Physical review letters, 2022 - APS
The thermodynamic and kinetic uncertainty relations indicate trade-offs between the relative
fluctuation of observables and thermodynamic quantities such as dissipation and dynamical …

Entanglement and thermokinetic uncertainty relations in coherent mesoscopic transport

K Prech, P Johansson, E Nyholm, GT Landi… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
A deeper understanding of the differences between quantum and classical dynamics
promises great potential for emerging technologies. Nevertheless, some aspects remain …

Violating the thermodynamic uncertainty relation in the three-level maser

AAS Kalaee, A Wacker, PP Potts - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
Nanoscale heat engines are subject to large fluctuations which affect their precision. The
thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) provides a trade-off between output power …

Thermodynamic uncertainty relation in slowly driven quantum heat engines

HJD Miller, MH Mohammady, M Perarnau-Llobet… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
Thermodynamic uncertainty relations express a trade-off between precision, defined as the
noise-to-signal ratio of a generic current, and the amount of associated entropy production …

Pareto-optimal cycles for power, efficiency and fluctuations of quantum heat engines using reinforcement learning

PA Erdman, A Rolandi, P Abiuso… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
The full optimization of a quantum heat engine requires operating at high power, high
efficiency, and high stability (ie, low power fluctuations). However, these three objectives …

Quadratic enhancement in the reliability of collective quantum engines

N Jaseem, S Vinjanampathy, V Mukherjee - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
We study fluctuations in many-body quantum heat engines operating in the presence of
collective system-bath interactions. We show that collective effects in open quantum systems …

Thermodynamics of a continuously monitored double-quantum-dot heat engine in the repeated interactions framework

LP Bettmann, MJ Kewming, J Goold - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
Understanding the thermodynamic role of measurement in quantum mechanical systems is
a burgeoning field of study. In this article, we study a double quantum dot (DQD) connected …

Coherences and the thermodynamic uncertainty relation: Insights from quantum absorption refrigerators

J Liu, D Segal - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
The thermodynamic uncertainty relation, originally derived for classical Markov-jump
processes, provides a tradeoff relation between precision and dissipation, deepening our …