The quantum Otto cycle serves as a bridge between the macroscopic world of heat engines
and the quantum regime of thermal devices composed from a single element. We compile …

Quantum thermodynamics supplies a consistent description of quantum heat engines and
refrigerators up to a single few-level system coupled to the environment. Once the …

Thermodynamic systems typically conserve quantities (known as charges) such as energy
and particle number. The charges are often assumed implicitly to commute with each other …

The unavoidable irreversible loss of power in a heat engine is found to be of quantum origin.
Following thermodynamic tradition, a model quantum heat engine operating in an Otto cycle …

The fundamentals of a quantum heat engine are derived from first principles. The study is
based on the equation of motion of a minimum set of operators, which is then used to define …

We construct a quantum Markovian master equation for a driven system coupled to a
thermal bath. The derivation utilizes an explicit solution of the propagator of the driven …

A comprehensive approach to modeling open quantum systems consistent with
thermodynamics is presented. The theory of open quantum systems is employed to define …

We present a procedure to accelerate the relaxation of an open quantum system towards its
equilibrium state. The control protocol, termed the shortcut to equilibration, is obtained by …

We show that both bound and scattering states of a certain class of potentials are related to
the unitary representations of certain groups. In this class, several potentials of practical …

The Carnot cycle combines reversible isothermal and adiabatic strokes to obtain optimal
efficiency, at the expense of a vanishing power output. Quantum Carnot-analog cycles are …