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 …

We present an extensive introduction to quantum collision models (CMs), also known as
repeated interactions schemes: a class of microscopic system–bath models for investigating …

Over the last decade impressive progress has been made in the theoretical understanding
of transport properties of clean, one-dimensional quantum lattice systems. Many physically …

Recent years have seen tremendous progress in the theoretical understanding of quantum
systems driven dissipatively by coupling to different baths at their edges. This was possible …

The study of open quantum systems often relies on approximate master equations derived
under the assumptions of weak coupling to the environment. However when the system is …

We expand the standard thermodynamic framework of a system coupled to a thermal
reservoir by considering a stream of independently prepared units repeatedly put into …

We show that a cyclic unitary process can extract work from the thermodynamic equilibrium
state of an engineered quantum dissipative process. Systems in the equilibrium states of …

We introduce the multipartite collision model, defined in terms of elementary interactions
between subsystems and ancillas, and show that it can simulate the Markovian dynamics of …

An exact and explicit ladder-tensor-network ansatz is presented for the nonequilibrium
steady state of an anisotropic Heisenberg XXZ spin-1/2 chain which is driven far from …

The laws of thermodynamics put limits to the efficiencies of thermal machines. Analogues of
these laws are now established for quantum engines weakly and passively coupled to the …