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 …

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

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 …

Classical thermodynamics is unrivalled in its range of applications and relevance to
everyday life. It enables a description of complex systems, made up of microscopic particles …

For a small driven system coupled strongly to a heat bath, internal energy and exchanged
heat are identified such that they obey the usual additive form of the first law. By identifying …

The Landauer principle states that any logically irreversible information processing must be
accompanied by dissipation into the environment. In this Letter, we investigate the heat …

We develop a thermodynamic framework that describes a classical system of interest S that
is strongly coupled to its thermal environment E. Within this framework, seven key …

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 …

The laws of thermodynamics, despite their wide range of applicability, are known to break
down when systems are correlated with their environments. Here we generalize …

We show that non-Markovian effects of the reservoirs can be used as a resource to extract
work from an Otto cycle. The state transformation under non-Markovian dynamics is …