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In this work we investigate a model of thermalization wherein a single ancillary qubit randomly interacts with the system to be thermalized. This not only sheds light on the emergence of Gibbs states in nature, but also provides a routine…

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The construction of efficient thermal engines operating at finite times constitutes a fundamental and timely topic in nonequilibrium thermodynamics. We introduce a strategy for optimizing the performance of Brownian engines, based on a…

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