Engines are systems and devices that convert one form of energy into another, typically into
a more useful form that can perform work. In the classical setup, physical, chemical, and …

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

Over the past two decades quantum engineering has made significant advances in our
ability to create genuine quantum many-body systems using ultracold atoms. In particular …

Aharonov-Bohm (AB) caging, a special flat-band localization mechanism, has spurred great
interest in different areas of physics. AB caging can be harnessed to explore the rich and …

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 …

We study a four-stroke Otto engine whose working fluid is a quantum Ising chain. The
thermodynamic cycle consists in sweeps of the transverse magnetic field occurring in …

We apply periodic control to realize a quantum thermal transistor, which we term as the
Floquet quantum thermal transistor. Periodic modulation allows us to control the heat flows …

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 …

We demonstrate how to incorporate a catalyst to enhance the performance of a heat engine.
Specifically, we analyze efficiency in one of the simplest engine models, which operates in …

Including the phonon-assisted inelastic process in thermoelectric devices makes it possible
to enhance the performance of nonequilibrium work extraction. In this work, we demonstrate …