Landauerʼs principle relates entropy decrease and heat dissipation during logically
irreversible processes. Most theoretical justifications of Landauerʼs principle either use …

Thermodynamics connects our knowledge of the world to our capability to manipulate and
thus to control it. This crucial role of control is exemplified by the third law of …

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 …

Thermal operations are a generic description for allowed state transitions under
thermodynamic restrictions. However, the quest for simpler methods to encompass all these …

Cooling quantum systems is arguably one of the most important thermodynamic tasks
connected to modern quantum technologies and an interesting question from a foundational …

Multilevel autonomous quantum thermal machines are discussed. In particular, we explore
the relationship between the size of the machine (captured by Hilbert space dimension) and …

The third law of thermodynamics in the form of the unattainability principle states that exact
ground-state cooling requires infinite resources. Here, we investigate the amount of …

In the quantum regime, the third law of thermodynamics implies the unattainability of pure
states. As shown recently, such unattainability implies that a unitary interaction between the …

We apply a unified and trade-off based optimization for low-dissipation models of cyclic heat
devices which accounts for both useful energy and losses. The resulting performance …

We study the asymptotic dynamics of arbitrary linear quantum open systems that are
periodically driven while coupled with generic bosonic reservoirs. We obtain exact results for …