A review is given on the foundations and applications of non-Hermitian classical and
quantum physics. First, key theorems and central concepts in non-Hermitian linear algebra …

The second law of thermodynamics dictates that heat simultaneously flows from the hot to
cold bath on average. To go beyond this picture, a range of works in the past decade show …

The laws of thermodynamics put limits to the efficiencies of thermal machines. Analogues of
these laws are now established for quantum engines weakly and passively coupled to the …

An important result in classical stochastic thermodynamics is the work fluctuation-dissipation
relation (FDR), which states that the dissipated work done along a slow process is …

Information is physical but information is also processed in finite time. Where computing
protocols are concerned, finite-time processing in the quantum regime can dynamically …

Markovian master equations provide a versatile tool for describing open quantum systems
when memory effects of the environment may be neglected. As these equations are of an …

We demonstrate radio-frequency thermometry on a micrometer-sized metallic island below
100 mK. Our device is based on a normal-metal–insulator–superconductor tunnel junction …

For closed quantum systems driven away from equilibrium, work is often defined in terms of
projective measurements of initial and final energies. This definition leads to statistical …

The time-dependent energy transfer in a driven quantum system strongly coupled to a heat
bath is studied within an influence functional approach. Exact formal expressions for the …

We propose an approach to define and measure the statistics of work, internal energy and
dissipated heat in a driven quantum system. In our framework the presence of a physical …