In recent years, the study of heat to work conversion has been re-invigorated by
nanotechnology. Steady-state devices do this conversion without any macroscopic moving …

Controlled quantum machines have matured significantly. A natural next step is to
increasingly grant them autonomy, freeing them from time-dependent external control. For …

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) place strict bounds on the fluctuations of
thermodynamic quantities in terms of the associated entropy production. In this Letter, we …

We demonstrate experimentally an autonomous nanoscale energy harvester that utilizes the
physics of resonant tunneling quantum dots. Gate-defined quantum dots on GaAs/AlGaAs …

We establish a theoretical method which goes beyond the weak-coupling and Markovian
approximations while remaining intuitive, using a quantum master equation in a larger …

Maxwell's demon is an imaginary entity that reduces the entropy of a system and generates
free energy in the system. About 150 years after its proposal, theoretical studies explained …

We propose and analyze a simple mesoscopic quantum heat engine that exhibits both high
power and high efficiency. The system consists of a biased Josephson junction coupled to …

Thermal machines perform useful tasks, such as producing work, cooling, or heating by
exchanging energy, and possibly additional conserved quantities such as particles, with …

We study the thermoelectric properties and heat-to-work conversion performance of an
interacting, multilevel quantum dot (QD) weakly coupled to electronic reservoirs. We focus …

We discuss a quantum thermal machine that generates power from a thermally driven
double quantum dot coupled to normal and superconducting reservoirs. Energy exchange …