According to the second law, the efficiency of cyclic heat engines is limited by the Carnot
bound that is attained by engines that operate between two thermal baths under the …

The advantages of quantum effects in several technologies, such as computation and
communication, have already been well appreciated. Some devices, such as quantum …

The characterization of irreversibility in general quantum processes is an open problem of
increasing technological relevance. Yet, the tools currently available to this aim are mostly …

Partition functions are ubiquitous in physics: They are important in determining the
thermodynamic properties of many-body systems and in understanding their phase …

We investigate the generic aspects of quantum coherence guided by the concentration of
measure phenomenon. We find the average relative entropy of coherence of pure quantum …

Coherence of a quantum state intrinsically depends on the choice of the reference basis. A
natural question to ask is the following: if we use two or more incompatible reference bases …

We show that a quantum thermal transistor can also cause the transistor effect—where one
out of three terminals can control the flow of heat current in the other two—with good …

A suitable way of quantifying work for microscopic quantum systems has been constantly
debated in the field of quantum thermodynamics. One natural approach is to measure the …

In this article, we show that a quantum gas, a collection of massive, non-interacting,
indistinguishable quantum particles, can be realized as a thermodynamic machine as an …

We propose an arbitrary driven spin as the working fluid of a quantum Otto cycle in the
presence of internal friction. The role of total allocated time to the adiabatic branches of the …