In recent years, the study of heat to work conversion has been re-invigorated by
nanotechnology. Steady-state devices do this conversion without any macroscopic moving …

Molecular junctions are building blocks for constructing future nanoelectronic devices that
enable the investigation of a broad range of electronic transport properties within nanoscale …

Quantum thermodynamics is emerging both as a topic of fundamental research and as a
means to understand and potentially improve the performance of quantum devices,,,,,,,,–. A …

We present an experimental realization of an autonomous Maxwell's demon, which extracts
microscopic information from a system and reduces its entropy by applying feedback. It is …

This review presents an overview of the thermal properties of mesoscopic structures. The
discussion is based on the concept of electron energy distribution, and, in particular, on …

Recent progress in solid-state quantum information processing has stimulated the search for
amplifiers and frequency converters with quantum-limited performance in the microwave …

In recent years, the ability of cold atom experiments to explore condensed-matter-related
questions has dramatically progressed. Transport experiments, in particular, have expanded …

Recent experiments on mesoscopic normal metal/superconductor heterostructures resolve
properties on length scales and at low temperatures such that the temperature is below the …

A ferromagnetic insulator (FI) attached to a conventional superconductor (S) changes
drastically the properties of the latter. Specifically, the exchange field at the FI/S interface …

This work is concerned with thermal quantum states of Hamiltonians on spin-and fermionic-
lattice systems with short-range interactions. We provide results leading to a local definition …