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 …

Shortcuts to adiabaticity (STA) are fast routes to the final results of slow, adiabatic changes
of the controlling parameters of a system. The shortcuts are designed by a set of analytical …

This book introduces the emerging field of quantum thermodynamics, with a focus on its
relation to quantum information and its implications for quantum computers and next …

One of the most widely known building blocks of modern physics is Heisenberg's
indeterminacy principle. Among the different statements of this fundamental property of the …

The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is a hybrid variational quantum-
classical algorithm that solves combinatorial optimization problems. While there is evidence …

Achieving effectively adiabatic dynamics is a ubiquitous goal in almost all areas of quantum
physics. Here, we study the speed with which a quantum system can be driven when …

The application of adiabatic protocols in quantum technologies is severely limited by
environmental sources of noise and decoherence. Shortcuts to adiabaticity by …

Counterdiabatic driving (CD) exploits auxiliary control fields to tailor the nonequilibrium
dynamics of a quantum system, making possible the suppression of dissipated work in finite …

We study the quantum speed limit for open quantum systems described by the Lindblad
master equation. The obtained inequality shows a trade-off relation between the operation …

We consider a finite-time quantum Otto cycle with single-and two spin-1/2 systems as its
working medium. To mimic adiabatic dynamics at a finite time, we employ a shortcut-to …