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Speed-ups to isothermality: Enhanced quantum thermal machines through control of the system-bath coupling
Nicola Pancotti, Matteo Scandi, Mark T. Mitchison +1
Isothermal transformations are minimally dissipative but slow processes, as the system needs to remain close to thermal equilibrium along the protocol. Here, we show that smoothly…
Quantum work statistics close to equilibrium
Matteo Scandi, Harry J. D. Miller, Janet Anders +1
We study the statistics of work, dissipation, and entropy production of a quantum quasi-isothermal process, where the system remains close to the thermal equilibrium along the tran…
Multimode Fock states with large photon number: effective descriptions and applications in quantum metrology
M. Perarnau-Llobet, A. González-Tudela, J. I. Cirac
We develop general tools to characterise and efficiently compute relevant observables of multimode -photon states generated in non-linear decays in one-dimensional waveguides. W…
Optimal cycles for low-dissipation heat engines
Paolo Abiuso, Martí Perarnau-Llobet
We consider the optimization of a finite-time Carnot engine characterized by small dissipations. We bound the power with a simple inequality and show that the optimal strategy is t…
Work fluctuations in slow processes: quantum signatures and optimal control
Harry J. D. Miller, Matteo Scandi, Janet Anders +1
An important result in classical stochastic thermodynamics is the work fluctuation--dissipation relation (FDR), which states that the dissipated work done along a slow process is p…
Experimentally reducing the quantum measurement back-action in work distributions by a collective measurement
Kang-Da Wu, Yuan Yuan, Guo-Yong Xiang +3
In quantum thermodynamics, the standard approach to estimate work fluctuations in unitary processes is based on two projective measurements, one performed at the beginning of the p…