Thermoelectric materials can convert heat into electrical energy, which can potentially be
used to improve the fuel efficiency of conventional heat engines. In recent decades …

Engines are systems and devices that convert one form of energy into another, typically into
a more useful form that can perform work. In the classical setup, physical, chemical, and …

Thermoelectric effects in metals are typically small due to the nearly perfect particle–hole
symmetry around their Fermi surface. Furthermore, thermo-phase effects and linear …

We present an overview of recent advances in the study of energy dynamics and
mechanisms for energy conversion in qubit systems with special focus on realizations in …

Heat engines are key devices that convert thermal energy into usable energy. Strong
thermoelectricity, at the basis of electrical heat engines, is present in superconducting spin …

The optimal control of open quantum systems is a challenging task but has a key role in
improving existing quantum information processing technologies. We introduce a general …

A quantum thermal machine is an open quantum system that enables the conversion
between heat and work at the micro or nano-scale. Optimally controlling such out-of …

We study how to achieve the ultimate power in the simplest, yet non-trivial, model of a
thermal machine, namely a two-level quantum system coupled to two thermal baths. Without …

We theoretically study the nonequilibrium thermoelectric transport properties of a strongly-
correlated molecule (or quantum dot) embedded in a tunnel junction. Assuming that the …

The increasing energy demand and the ever more pressing need for clean technologies of
energy conversion pose one of the most urgent and complicated issues of our age …