4 papers
Gaussian time-translation covariant operations: structure, implementation, and thermodynamics
Xueyuan Hu, Lea Lautenbacher, Giovanni Spaventa +3
Time-translation symmetry strongly constrains physical dynamics, yet systematic characterization for continuous-variable systems lags behind its discrete-variable counterpart. We c…
Correlated dynamics as a resource in molecular switches
Daniel Siciliano, Rudi B. P. Pietsch, Giovanni Spaventa +2
Photoisomerization, a photochemical process underlying many biological mechanisms, has been modeled recently within the quantum resource theory of thermodynamics. This approach has…
Physically constrained quantum clock-driven dynamics
Lea Lautenbacher, Giovanni Spaventa, Dario Cilluffo +2
Thermal machines are physical systems designed to convert thermal energy into practical work through cyclic state transformations. A key component in such a machine is a clock-equi…
Quantum resource-theoretical analysis of the role of vibrational structure in photoisomerization
Siddharth Tiwary, Giovanni Spaventa, Susana F. Huelga +1
Thermodynamical systems at the nanoscale, such as single molecules interacting with highly structured vibrational environments, typically undergo non-equilibrium physical processes…