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Publications (37)

cond-mat.stat-mech2014

Nonequilibrium Equalities in Absolutely Irreversible Processes

Yûto Murashita, Ken Funo, Masahito Ueda

We generalize nonequilibrium integral equalities to situations involving absolutely irreversible processes for which the forward-path probability vanishes and the entropy productio…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Thermodynamic uncertainty relation under continuous measurement and feedback with quantum-classical-transfer entropy

Kaito Tojo, Takahiro Sagawa, Ken Funo

We derive a thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) under quantum continuous measurement and feedback control. By incorporating the quantum-classical-transfer entropy, which quant…

quant-ph2024

Non-Hermitian Pseudomodes for Strongly Coupled Open Quantum Systems: Unravelings, Correlations and Thermodynamics

Paul Menczel, Ken Funo, Mauro Cirio +2

The pseudomode framework provides an exact description of the dynamics of an open quantum system coupled to a non-Markovian environment. Using this framework, the influence of the…

cond-mat.stat-mech2018

Path integral approach to quantum thermodynamics

Ken Funo, H. T. Quan

Work belongs to the most basic notions in thermodynamics but it is not well understood in quantum systems, especially in open quantum systems. By introducing a novel concept of wor…

quant-ph2017

Universal Work Fluctuations during Shortcuts To Adiabaticity by Counterdiabatic Driving

Ken Funo, Jing-Ning Zhang, Cyril Chatou +3

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

cond-mat.stat-mech2015

Quantum nonequilibrium equalities with absolute irreversibility

Ken Funo, Yûto Murashita, Masahito Ueda

We derive quantum nonequilibrium equalities in absolutely irreversible processes. Here by absolute irreversibility we mean that in the backward process the density matrix does not…