This topical review article gives an overview of the interplay between quantum information
theory and thermodynamics of quantum systems. We focus on several trending topics …

We expand the standard thermodynamic framework of a system coupled to a thermal
reservoir by considering a stream of independently prepared units repeatedly put into …

According to the second law, the efficiency of cyclic heat engines is limited by the Carnot
bound that is attained by engines that operate between two thermal baths under the …

Constraints on work extraction are fundamental to our operational understanding of the
thermodynamics of both classical and quantum systems. In the quantum setting, finite-time …

We consider the speed limit for classical stochastic Markov processes with and without the
local detailed balance condition. We find that, for both cases, a trade-off inequality exists …

Autonomous engines operating at the nanoscale can be prone to deleterious fluctuations in
the heat and particle currents. Thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) express a …

The working substance fueling a quantum heat engine may contain coherence in its energy
basis, depending on the dynamics of the engine cycle. In some models of quantum Otto heat …

Heat spontaneously flows from hot to cold in standard thermodynamics. However, the latter
theory presupposes the absence of initial correlations between interacting systems. We here …

We propose a method to study the thermodynamic behaviour of small systems beyond the
weak coupling and Markovian approximation, which is different in spirit from conventional …

For a small driven system coupled strongly to a heat bath, internal energy and exchanged
heat are identified such that they obey the usual additive form of the first law. By identifying …