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most citedPrecision is not limited by the second law of thermodynamics

16 citations · 40 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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quant-ph2026

Autonomization of Quantum Systems and the Emergence of the Work Operator

Carlo Cepollaro, Danial Chughtai, Alberto Spalvieri +2

Estimation of work at the quantum scale remains a central challenge in quantum thermodynamics. Canonical approaches have a fundamental drawback: they assume classical control of th…

quant-ph2026

Modelling quantum measurement dynamics: from decoherence to redundancy with site-hopping indistinguishable particles

Katja Schneeweiss, Tom Rivlin, Maximilian P. E. Lock +2

In recent years, new theoretical insights into decoherence and quantum measurements have emerged through the study of many-body dynamics in isolated quantum systems. It is now unde…

quant-ph2026

Quantum vs Classical Erasure: Equal Bounds but Unequal Costs

Jan Neuser, Jake Xuereb, Pharnam Bakhshinezhad +1

Irreversibility has a fundamental thermodynamic cost, erasing information inevitably generates heat. This connection is quantified by the Landauer bound, which gives the minimum di…

quant-ph2026

Exponential gain in clock precision using quantum correlated ticks

Florian Meier, Yuri Minoguchi, Gianmichele Blasi +2

Creating precise timing devices at ultra-short time scales is not just an important technological challenge, but confronts us with foundational questions about timekeeping's ultima…

quant-ph2025

Quantum detectors as autonomous machines: assessing the nonequilibrium thermodynamics of information acquisition

Emanuel Schwarzhans, Tony J. G. Apollaro, Ilia Khomchenko +3

We formulate a minimal model of a quantum particle detector as an autonomous quantum thermal machine. Our goal is to establish how entropy production, which is needed to maintain t…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Cooling a Qubit using n Others

Jake Xuereb, Benjamin Stratton, Alberto Rolandi +3

In the task of unitarily cooling a quantum system with access to a larger quantum system, known as the machine or reservoir, how does the structure of the machine impact an agent's…

quant-ph2025★ 4 cited

Quantum Time Crystal Clock and its Performance

Ludmila Viotti, Marcus Huber, Rosario Fazio +1

Understanding different aspects of time is at the core of many areas in theoretical physics. Minimal models of continuous stochastic and quantum clocks have been proposed to explor…

quant-ph2025

Entropic costs of extracting classical ticks from a quantum clock

Vivek Wadhia, Florian Meier, Federico Fedele +12

We experimentally realize a quantum clock by using a charge sensor to count charges tunneling through a double quantum dot (DQD). Individual tunneling events are used as the clock'…

quant-ph2024

Reconstructing thermal states using dimensionally limited probes : A Model for Limited Control & Memory in Quantum Thermodynamics

Jake Xuereb, A. de Oliveira Junior, Fabien Clivaz +2

Whilst the complexity of acquiring knowledge of a quantum state has been extensively studied in the fields of quantum tomography and quantum learning, a physical understanding of i…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Optimal limits of continuously monitored thermometers and their Hamiltonian structure

Mohammad Mehboudi, Florian Meier, Marcus Huber +1

We investigate the fundamental and practical precision limits of thermometry in bosonic and fermionic environments by coupling an -level probe to them and continuously monitorin…

quant-ph2024★ 16 cited

Precision is not limited by the second law of thermodynamics

Florian Meier, Yuri Minoguchi, Simon Sundelin +4

Physical devices operating out of equilibrium are inherently affected by thermal fluctuations, limiting their operational precision. This issue is pronounced at microscopic and esp…

quant-ph2024★ 10 cited

Emergence of a second law of thermodynamics in isolated quantum systems

Florian Meier, Tom Rivlin, Tiago Debarba +3

The second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of an isolated system can only increase over time. This appears to conflict with the reversible evolution of isolated quant…

quant-ph2024★ 3 cited

Autonomous Quantum Processing Unit: An Autonomous Thermal Computing Machine & its Physical Limitations

Florian Meier, Marcus Huber, Paul Erker +1

Computation is an input-output process, where a program encoding a problem to be solved is inserted into a machine that outputs a solution. Quantum computation conventionally relie…

quant-ph2023★ 3 cited

Quantum Coding with Finite Thermodynamic Resources

Jake Xuereb, Tiago Debarba, Marcus Huber +1

Quantum direct coding or Schumacher compression generalised the ideas of Shannon theory, gave an operational meaning to the von Neumann entropy and established the term qubit. But…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Experimental high-dimensional entanglement certification and quantum steering with time-energy measurements

Kai-Chi Chang, Murat Can Sarihan, Paul Erker +8

High-dimensional entanglement provides unique ways of transcending the limitations of current approaches in quantum information processing, quantum communications based on qubits.…