Entropy production is a key quantity in any finite-time thermodynamic process. It is intimately
tied with the fundamental laws of thermodynamics, embodying a tool to extend …

For a large class of nonequilibrium systems, thermodynamic notions like work, heat, and, in
particular, entropy production can be identified on the level of fluctuating dynamical …

The dynamical convergence of a system to the thermal distribution, or Gibbs state, is a
standard assumption across all of the physical sciences. The Gibbs state is determined just …

Deriving the laws of thermodynamics from a microscopic picture is a central quest of
statistical mechanics. This tutorial focuses on the derivation of the first and second law for …

Treating reference frames fundamentally as quantum systems is inevitable in quantum
gravity and also in quantum foundations once considering laboratories as physical systems …

A general thermodynamic framework is presented for open quantum systems in fixed contact
with a thermal reservoir. The first and second law are obtained for arbitrary system-reservoir …

The Gibbs state is widely taken to be the equilibrium state of a system in contact with an
environment at temperature T. However, non-negligible interactions between system and …

Entropy production plays a fundamental role in nonequilibrium thermodynamics to quantify
the irreversibility of open systems. Its positivity can be ensured for a wide class of setups, but …

We show that it is impossible to perform ideal projective measurements on quantum systems
using finite resources. We identify three fundamental features of ideal projective …

We establish a theoretical method which goes beyond the weak-coupling and Markovian
approximations while remaining intuitive, using a quantum master equation in a larger …