Recent years have witnessed an explosion of interest in quantum devices for the production,
storage, and transfer of energy. This Colloquium concentrates on the field of quantum …

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

Thermodynamics serves as a universal means for studying physical systems from an energy
perspective. In recent years, with the establishment of the field of stochastic and quantum …

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations yield a lower bound on entropy production in terms of
the mean and fluctuations of a current. We derive their general form for systems under …

Any physical system evolves at a finite speed that is constrained not only by the energetic
cost but also by the topological structure of the underlying dynamics. In this Letter, by …

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 study a relationship between optimal transport theory and stochastic thermodynamics for
the Fokker-Planck equation. We show that the lower bound on the entropy production is the …

A central task in finite-time thermodynamics is to minimize the excess or dissipated work W
diss when manipulating the state of a system immersed in a thermal bath. We consider this …

The Landauer principle states that at least k BT ln 2 of energy is required to erase a 1-bit
memory, with k BT the thermal energy of the system. We study the effects of inertia on this …

Landauer's bound is the minimum thermodynamic cost for erasing one bit of information. As
this bound is achievable only for quasistatic processes, finite-time operation incurs …