Shortcuts to adiabaticity (STA) are fast routes to the final results of slow, adiabatic changes
of the controlling parameters of a system. The shortcuts are designed by a set of analytical …

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 …

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

Quantum thermodynamics is an emerging research field aiming to extend standard
thermodynamics and non-equilibrium statistical physics to ensembles of sizes well below …

The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is a hybrid variational quantum-
classical algorithm that solves combinatorial optimization problems. While there is evidence …

We study the problem of charging a quantum battery in finite time. We demonstrate an
analytical optimal protocol for the case of a single qubit. Extending this analysis to an array …

A shortcut to adiabaticity is a driving protocol that reproduces in a short time the same final
state that would result from an adiabatic, infinitely slow process. A powerful technique to …

The practical untenability of the quasi-static assumption makes any realistic engine
intrinsically irreversible and its operating time finite, thus implying friction effects at short …

A quantum two-level system with periodically modulated energy splitting could provide a
minimal universal quantum heat machine. We present the experimental realization and the …

Stochastic thermodynamics lays down a broad framework to revisit the venerable concepts
of heat, work and entropy production for individual stochastic trajectories of mesoscopic …