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 …

The quantum Otto cycle serves as a bridge between the macroscopic world of heat engines
and the quantum regime of thermal devices composed from a single element. We compile …

Thermodynamics originated in the need to understand novel technologies developed by the
Industrial Revolution. However, over the centuries, the description of engines, refrigerators …

The evolution of a system induced by counterdiabatic driving mimics the adiabatic dynamics
without the requirement of slow driving. Engineering it involves diagonalizing the …

Shortcuts to adiabaticity provide fast protocols for quantum state preparation in which the
use of auxiliary counterdiabatic controls circumvents the requirement of slow driving in …

Quantum adiabatic processes—that keep constant the populations in the instantaneous
eigenbasis of a time-dependent Hamiltonian—are very useful to prepare and manipulate …

We propose a method to speed up adiabatic passage techniques in two-level and three-
level atoms extending to the short-time domain their robustness with respect to parameter …

A shortcut to adiabaticity is a driving protocol that reproduces in a short time the same final
state that would result from an adiabatic, infinitely slow process. A powerful technique to …

We examine the stability versus different types of perturbations of recently proposed
shortcuts to adiabaticity to speed up the population inversion of a two-level quantum system …

Different methods have been recently put forward and implemented experimentally to
inverse engineer the time-dependent Hamiltonian of a quantum system and accelerate slow …