activity
20142026
most citedWork measurement as a generalized quantum measurement

193 citations · 436 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

25 papers

quant-ph2026

Attention-based optimizer for symmetry finding

Shreya Banerjee, Vinodh Raj Rajagopal Muthu, Charlie Nation +5

Finding symmetries is crucial for understanding physical models. In this work, we present an optimization framework that searches Pauli symmetries of Hamiltonians, merging the fiel…

quant-ph2026

Graph automorphisms to obtain Clifford symmetries in open and closed qudit models

Charlie Nation, Rick P. A. Simon, Shreya Banerjee +4

In the recent article [arXiv:2605.18966], we demonstrated that finding Clifford symmetries can be mapped to a Graph Automorphism (GA) problem. Here, we provide an algorithm to obta…

quant-ph2026

Clifford symmetries in quantum many-body systems

Charlie Nation, Rick P. A. Simon, Shreya Banerjee +4

Obtaining the symmetries of a model is a critical step towards developing an understanding and ultimately analytically or numerically solving the model. However, finding symmetries…

quant-ph2026

Reservoir-mediated spin entanglement in the mean-force Gibbs state

L. A. Williamson, W. McEniery, F. Cerisola +1

Two qubits strongly coupled to a common bosonic reservoir can become entangled with each other, despite having no direct interaction. In equilibrium, such coupling-induced coherenc…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Sources of nonlinearity in the response of a driven nano-electromechanical resonator

Sofia Sevitz, Kushagra Aggarwal, Jorge Tabanera-Bravo +9

Nanoelectromechanical resonators provide an ideal platform for investigating the interplay between electron transport and nonlinear mechanical motion. Externally driven suspended c…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Autonomous conversion of particle-exchange to quantum self-oscillations

Sofia Sevitz, Federico Cerisola, Karen V. Hovhannisyan +1

Particle-exchange machines utilize electronic transport to continuously transfer heat between fermionic reservoirs. Here, we couple a quantum mechanical resonator to a particle-exc…

quant-ph2025

Quantum master equation for nanoelectromechanical systems beyond the wide-band limit

Sofia Sevitz, Federico Cerisola, Janet Anders

Coupling the vibrations of an oscillator to electronic transport is a key building block for nanoelectromechanical systems. They describe many nanoscale electrical components such…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Extreme-temperature single-particle heat engine

Molly Message, Federico Cerisola, Jonathan D. Pritchett +5

There are many exotic thermodynamic processes that are hard to study in nature. Here, we synthesize a structured environment to explore the extremes of thermodynamics. We present a…

quant-ph2024

Extra cost of erasure due to quantum lifetime broadening

Joe Dunlop, Federico Cerisola, Juliette Monsel +6

The energy cost of erasing a bit of information was fundamentally lower bounded by Landauer, in terms of the temperature of its environment: . However,…

quant-ph2024★ 7 cited

Stochastic simulation of dissipative quantum oscillators

Charlie R. Hogg, Jonas Glatthard, Federico Cerisola +1

Generic open quantum systems are notoriously difficult to simulate unless one looks at specific regimes. In contrast, classical dissipative systems can often be effectively describ…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Coupling a single spin to high-frequency motion

Federico Fedele, Federico Cerisola, Lea Bresque +12

Coupling a single spin to high-frequency mechanical motion is a fundamental bottleneck of applications such as quantum sensing, intermediate and long-distance spin-spin coupling, a…

physics.comp-ph2023★ 4 cited

SpiDy.jl: open-source Julia package for the study of non-Markovian stochastic dynamics

Stefano Scali, Simon Horsley, Janet Anders +1

SpiDy.jl solves the non-Markovian stochastic dynamics of interacting classical spin vectors and harmonic oscillator networks in contact with a dissipative environment. The methods…

quant-ph2023★ 7 cited

Enhanced entanglement in multi-bath spin-boson models

Charlie R. Hogg, Federico Cerisola, James D. Cresser +2

The spin-boson model usually considers a spin coupled to a single bosonic bath. However, some physical situations require coupling of the spin to multiple environments. For example…

quant-ph2023

Thermodynamically Optimal Protocols for Dual-Purpose Qubit Operations

Joe Dunlop, Federico Cerisola, Jorge Tabanera-Bravo +1

Information processing, quantum or classical, relies on channels transforming multiple input states to different corresponding outputs. Previous research has established bounds on…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 7 cited

Accounting for Quantum Effects in Atomistic Spin Dynamics

Marco Berritta, Stefano Scali, Federico Cerisola +1

Atomistic spin dynamics (ASD) is a standard tool to model the magnetization dynamics of a variety of materials. The fundamental dynamical model underlying ASD is entirely classical…

quant-ph2023★ 4 cited

A Wigner quasiprobability distribution of work

Federico Cerisola, Franco Mayo, Augusto J. Roncaglia

In this article we introduce a quasiprobability distribution of work that is based on the Wigner function. This construction rests on the idea that the work done on an isolated sys…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 8 cited

Stability of long-sustained oscillations induced by electron tunneling

Jorge Tabanera-Bravo, Florian Vigneau, Juliette Monsel +9

Self-oscillations are the result of an efficient mechanism generating periodic motion from a constant power source. In quantum devices, these oscillations may arise due to the inte…

quant-ph2022★ 7 cited

Quantum-classical correspondence in spin-boson equilibrium states at arbitrary coupling

Federico Cerisola, Marco Berritta, Stefano Scali +3

The equilibrium properties of nanoscale systems can deviate significantly from standard thermodynamics due to their coupling to an environment. For the generalised -angled spin-…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022★ 28 cited

Thermodynamics and optimal protocols of multidimensional quadratic Brownian systems

Paolo Abiuso, Viktor Holubec, Janet Anders +3

We characterize finite-time thermodynamic processes of multidimensional quadratic overdamped systems. Analytic expressions are provided for heat, work, and dissipation for any evol…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022★ 14 cited

Optimal finite-time heat engines under constrained control

Zhuolin Ye, Federico Cerisola, Paolo Abiuso +3

We optimize finite-time stochastic heat engines with a periodically scaled Hamiltonian under experimentally motivated constraints on the bath temperature and the scaling parame…

quant-ph2020

Heat engines with single-shot deterministic work extraction

Federico Cerisola, Facundo Sapienza, Augusto Roncaglia

We introduce heat engines working in the nano-regime that allow to extract a finite amount of deterministic work. We show that the efficiency of these cycles is strictly smaller th…

quant-ph2018★ 51 cited

Correlations as a resource in quantum thermodynamics

Facundo Sapienza, Federico Cerisola, Augusto J. Roncaglia

The presence of correlations in physical systems can be a valuable resource for many quantum information tasks. They are also relevant in thermodynamic transformations, and their c…

quant-ph2018★ 5 cited

Ancilla-assisted measurement of quantum work

Gabriele De Chiara, Paolo Solinas, Federico Cerisola +1

We review the use of an external auxiliary detector for measuring the full distribution of the work performed on or extracted from a quantum system during a unitary thermodynamic p…

quant-ph2017★ 100 cited

Using a quantum work meter to test non-equilibrium fluctuation theorems

Federico Cerisola, Yair Margalit, Shimon Machluf +3

Non-equilibrium quantum thermodynamics is essential to describe new devices that operate far from the regime where the usual thermodynamical laws are obeyed. When quantum fluctuati…