Colloquium: Statistical mechanics and thermodynamics at strong coupling: Quantum and classical

P Talkner, P Hänggi - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2020 - APS
The statistical mechanical description of small systems staying in thermal equilibrium with an
environment can be achieved by means of the Hamiltonian of mean force. In contrast to the …

Thermometry in the quantum regime: recent theoretical progress

M Mehboudi, A Sanpera… - Journal of Physics A …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Controlling and measuring the temperature in different devices and platforms that operate in
the quantum regime is, without any doubt, essential for any potential application. In this …

Entanglement, coherence, and extractable work in quantum batteries

HL Shi, S Ding, QK Wan, XH Wang, WL Yang - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We investigate the connection between quantum resources and extractable work in
quantum batteries. We demonstrate that quantum coherence in the battery or the battery …

Quantum coherence and ergotropy

G Francica, FC Binder, G Guarnieri, MT Mitchison… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
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 …

[HTML][HTML] A change of perspective: switching quantum reference frames via a perspective-neutral framework

A Vanrietvelde, PA Höhn, F Giacomini… - Quantum, 2020 - quantum-journal.org
Treating reference frames fundamentally as quantum systems is inevitable in quantum
gravity and also in quantum foundations once considering laboratories as physical systems …

Thermometry of strongly correlated fermionic quantum systems using impurity probes

G Mihailescu, S Campbell, AK Mitchell - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
We study quantum-impurity models as a platform for quantum thermometry. A single
quantum spin-1 2 impurity is coupled to an explicit, structured, fermionic thermal sample …

Operational one-to-one mapping between coherence and entanglement measures

H Zhu, Z Ma, Z Cao, SM Fei, V Vedral - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
We establish a general operational one-to-one mapping between coherence measures and
entanglement measures: Any entanglement measure of bipartite pure states is the minimum …

Fluctuations in extractable work bound the charging power of quantum batteries

LP García-Pintos, A Hamma, A Del Campo - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We study the connection between the charging power of quantum batteries and the
fluctuations of the extractable work. We prove that in order to have a nonzero rate of change …

Kirkwood-Dirac quasiprobability approach to the statistics of incompatible observables

M Lostaglio, A Belenchia, A Levy… - Quantum, 2023 - quantum-journal.org
Recent work has revealed the central role played by the Kirkwood-Dirac quasiprobability
(KDQ) as a tool to properly account for non-classical features in the context of condensed …

Work fluctuations in slow processes: quantum signatures and optimal control

HJD Miller, M Scandi, J Anders, M Perarnau-Llobet - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
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 …