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most citedEntropy production and thermodynamic power of the squeezed thermal reservoir

195 citations · 1.7k across the 36 of their papers we have counts for

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36 papers

quant-ph2026

Energetic Cost of Temporal Information Processing in Quantum Reservoirs

Gabriele Cenedese, Gonzalo Manzano, Gian Luca Giorgi +1

Quantum reservoir computing offers a promising route toward energy-efficient machine learning by processing temporal information with minimal training overhead. Yet, the physical p…

quant-ph2026

Dissipation in Periodically Driven Quantum Systems: Partial Secularization and Thermodynamic Consistency

Luísa T. Tude, Carlos Ortega-Taberner, Roberta Zambrini +1

Periodically driven open quantum systems are central to quantum thermodynamics and quantum control. These systems are typically described using Floquet-Born-Markov master equations…

quant-ph2026

General theory of monitored Quantum Reservoir Computing

Oriol Morguí-Sancho, Gonzalo Manzano, Gian Luca Giorgi +1

Quantum reservoir computing (QRC) provides a powerful framework for processing temporal data using quantum dynamics, but incorporating measurements into the reservoir remains a fun…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Quo vadis, stochastic thermodynamics?

Jan Korbel, Artemy Kolchinsky, Sarah A. M. Loos +4

Stochastic thermodynamics is a framework for describing non-equilibrium processes at the level of fluctuating trajectories, where the state of a system evolves as a stochastic time…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025★ 1 cited

Thermodynamic inference in molecular motors: a Martingale approach

Adrián Nadal-Rosa, Gonzalo Manzano

Molecular motors are in charge of almost every process in the life cycle of cells, such as protein synthesis, DNA replication, and cell locomotion, hence being of crucial importanc…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Wigner's friend scenarios: on what to condition and how to verify the predictions

Flavio Del Santo, Gonzalo Manzano, Caslav Brukner

Wigner's friend experiment and its modern extensions display the ambiguity of the quantum mechanical description regarding the assignment of quantum states. While the friend applie…

quant-ph2024★ 7 cited

Certifying quantum enhancements in thermal machines beyond the Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation

José A. Almanza-Marrero, Gonzalo Manzano

Quantum coherence has been shown to impact the operational capabilities of quantum systems performing thermodynamic tasks in a significant way, and yet the possibility and conditio…

quant-ph2023★ 23 cited

Quantum coherence enables hybrid multitask and multisource regimes in autonomous thermal machines

Kenza Hammam, Gonzalo Manzano, Gabriele De Chiara

Non-equilibrium effects may have a profound impact on the performance of thermal devices performing thermodynamic tasks such as refrigeration or heat pumping. The possibility of en…

quant-ph2023★ 9 cited

Conditional fluctuation theorems and entropy production for monitored quantum systems under imperfect detection

Mar Ferri-Cortés, Jose A. Almanza-Marrero, Rosa López +2

The thermodynamic behavior of Markovian open quantum systems can be described at the level of fluctuations by using continuous monitoring approaches. However, practical application…

cond-mat.stat-mech2023★ 26 cited

Thermodynamics of computations with absolute irreversibility, unidirectional transitions, and stochastic computation times

Gonzalo Manzano, Gülce Kardeş, Édgar Roldán +1

Developing a thermodynamic theory of computation is a challenging task at the interface of non-equilibrium thermodynamics and computer science. In particular, this task requires de…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 15 cited

Quantum-enhanced performance in superconducting Andreev-reflection engines

Gonzalo Manzano, Rosa López

When a quantum dot is attached to a metallic reservoir and a superconducting contact Andreev processes leads to a finite subgap current at the normal lead and the creation or destr…

quant-ph2021

Quantum thermodynamics under continuous monitoring: a general framework

Gonzalo Manzano, Roberta Zambrini

The thermodynamics of quantum systems driven out of equilibrium has attracted increasing attention in last the decade, in connection with quantum information and statistical physic…

cond-mat.stat-mech2021★ 9 cited

Survival and extreme statistics of work, heat, and entropy production in steady-state heat engines

Gonzalo Manzano, Édgar Roldán

We derive universal bounds for the finite-time survival probability of the stochastic work extracted in steady-state heat engines and the stochastic heat dissipated to the environm…

quant-ph2021★ 12 cited

Inferring work by quantum superposing forward and time-reversal evolutions

Giulia Rubino, Gonzalo Manzano, Lee A. Rozema +3

The study of thermodynamic fluctuations allows one to relate the free energy difference between two equilibrium states with the work done on a system through processes far from equ…

quant-ph2021

Comment on "Steady-State Coherences by Composite System-Bath Interactions"

Marco Cattaneo, Gonzalo Manzano

In a recent Letter, Guarnieri et al. [1] reported on the possibility of generating steady-state coherence (SSC) in the energy basis of a two-level system by the sole action of a si…

quant-ph2021★ 42 cited

Collective effects on the performance and stability of quantum heat engines

Leonardo da Silva Souza, Gonzalo Manzano, Rosario Fazio +1

Recent predictions for quantum-mechanical enhancements in the operation of small heat engines have raised renewed interest in their study from both a fundamental perspective and in…

quant-ph2021★ 49 cited

Optimizing autonomous thermal machines powered by energetic coherence

Kenza Hammam, Yassine Hassouni, Rosario Fazio +1

The characterization and control of quantum effects in the performance of thermodynamic tasks may open new avenues for small thermal machines working in the nanoscale. We study the…

quant-ph2020★ 46 cited

Non-Abelian Quantum Transport and Thermosqueezing Effects

Gonzalo Manzano, Juan M. R. Parrondo, Gabriel T. Landi

Modern quantum experiments provide examples of transport with non-commuting quantities, offering a tool to understand the interplay between thermal and quantum effects. Here we set…

quant-ph2020★ 50 cited

Hybrid Thermal Machines: Generalized Thermodynamic Resources for Multitasking

Gonzalo Manzano, Rafael Sánchez, Ralph Silva +4

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

quant-ph2020★ 35 cited

Quantum superposition of thermodynamic evolutions with opposing time's arrows

Giulia Rubino, Gonzalo Manzano, Časlav Brukner

Microscopic physical laws are time-symmetric, hence, a priori there exists no preferential temporal direction. However, the second law of thermodynamics allows one to associate the…

cond-mat.stat-mech2020★ 79 cited

Thermodynamics of Gambling Demons

Gonzalo Manzano, Diego Subero, Olivier Maillet +3

We introduce and realize demons that follow a customary gambling strategy to stop a nonequilibrium process at stochastic times. We derive second-law-like inequalities for the avera…

quant-ph2019★ 49 cited

Synchronization along quantum trajectories

Najmeh Es'haqi-Sani, Gonzalo Manzano, Roberta Zambrini +1

We employ a quantum trajectory approach to characterize synchronization and phase-locking between open quantum systems in nonequilibrium steady states. We exemplify our proposal fo…

quant-ph2019★ 50 cited

Boosting the performance of small autonomous refrigerators via common environmental effects

Gonzalo Manzano, Gian-Luca Giorgi, Rosario Fazio +1

We explore the possibility of enhancing the performance of small thermal machines by the presence of common noise sources. In particular, we study a prototypical model for an auton…

quant-ph2019★ 35 cited

Quantum Martingale Theory and Entropy Production

Gonzalo Manzano, Rosario Fazio, Édgar Roldán

We develop a martingale theory to describe fluctuations of entropy production for open quantum systems in nonequilbrium steady states. Using the formalism of quantum jump trajector…