no code implementations • 27 Jan 2021 • Kenza Hammam, Yassine Hassouni, Rosario Fazio, Gonzalo Manzano
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.
Quantum Physics Statistical Mechanics
no code implementations • 8 Sep 2020 • Gonzalo Manzano, Rafael Sánchez, Ralph Silva, Géraldine Haack, Jonatan B. Brask, Nicolas Brunner, Patrick P. Potts
Thermal machines perform useful tasks--such as producing work, cooling, or heating--by exchanging energy, and possibly additional conserved quantities such as particles, with reservoirs.
Quantum Physics Statistical Mechanics
no code implementations • 4 Aug 2020 • Gonzalo Manzano, Diego Subero, Olivier Maillet, Rosario Fazio, Jukka P. Pekola, Édgar Roldán
We introduce and realize demons that follow a customary gambling strategy to stop a nonequilibrium process at stochastic times.
Statistical Mechanics Quantum Physics
