The seminal work by Sadi Carnot in the early nineteenth century provided the blueprint of a
reversible heat engine and the celebrated second law of thermodynamics eventually …

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 …

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

The pseudomode framework provides an exact description of the dynamics of an open
quantum system coupled to a non-Markovian environment. Using this framework, the …

We develop a deep learning (DL) framework assisted by differentiable programming for
discovery of optimal quantum control protocols under hard constraints. To that end, we use …

It is investigated whether non-Markovianity, ie, the memory effects resulting from the
coupling of the system to its environment, can be beneficial for the performance of quantum …

The optimal control of open quantum systems is a challenging task but has a key role in
improving existing quantum information processing technologies. We introduce a general …

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 …

A quantum thermal machine is an open quantum system that enables the conversion
between heat and work at the micro or nano-scale. Optimally controlling such out-of …

We study the thermodynamic performance of a finite-time non-regenerative quantum Stirling-
like cycle used as a heat engine. We consider specifically the case in which the working …