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Cooling quantum systems with finite resources is a central task in quantum technologies and has been extensively explored in discrete-variable settings. As continuous-variable (CV) platforms play an increasingly important role in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Wen-Han Png , Xueyuan Hu , Valerio Scarani

Thermal operations are an operational model of non-equilibrium quantum thermodynamics. In the absence of coherence between energy levels, exact state transition conditions under thermal operations are known in terms of a mathematical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-11 Varun Narasimhachar , Gilad Gour

Quantum thermodynamics can be naturally phrased as a theory of quantum state transformation and energy exchange for small-scale quantum systems undergoing thermodynamical processes, thereby making the resource theoretical approach very well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Uttam Singh , Jarosław K. Korbicz , Nicolas J. Cerf

The relaxation of a system to a steady state is a central point of interest in many attempts to advance control over the quantum world. In this paper, we consider control through instantaneous Gaussian unitary operations on the ubiquitous…

We examine the problem of state transformations in the framework of Gaussian thermal resource theory in the presence of catalysts. To this end, we introduce an expedient parametrisation of covariance matrices in terms of principal mode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 Benjamin Yadin , Hyejung H. Jee , Carlo Sparaciari , Gerardo Adesso , Alessio Serafini

Quantum thermodynamics can be cast as a resource theory by considering free access to a heat bath, thereby viewing the Gibbs state at a fixed temperature as a free state and hence any other state as a resource. Here, we consider a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Uttam Singh , Michael G. Jabbour , Zacharie Van Herstraeten , Nicolas J. Cerf

Feedback cooling plays a critical role in stabilizing quantum systems and achieving low temperatures, where a key question is to determine the fundamental thermodynamic limits on cooling performance. We establish a fundamental bound on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Kousuke Kumasaki , Toshihiro Yada , Ken Funo , Takahiro Sagawa

Nature is governed by precise physical laws, which can inspire the discovery of new computer-run simulation algorithms. Thermal states are the most ubiquitous for they are the equilibrium states of matter. Simulating thermal states of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-13 Oles Shtanko , Ramis Movassagh

We study the ultimate bounds on the estimation of temperature for an interacting quantum system. We consider two coupled bosonic modes that are assumed to be thermal and using quantum estimation theory establish the role the Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Steve Campbell , Mohammad Mehboudi , Gabriele De Chiara , Mauro Paternostro

We consider the problem of time optimal control of a continuous bosonic quantum system subject to the action of a Markovian dissipation. In particular, we consider the case of a one mode Gaussian quantum system prepared in an arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-01 Alberto Carlini , Andrea Mari , Vittorio Giovannetti

So-called Thermal Operations seem to describe the most fundamental, and reasonable, set of operations allowable for state transformations at an ambient inverse temperature $\beta$. However, a priori, they require experimentalists to…

We provide new operational significance of nonclassicality in nonequilibrium temperature estimation of bosonic baths with Gaussian probe states and Gaussian dynamics. We find a bound on the thermometry performance using classical probe…

We uncover emergent universality arising in the equilibration dynamics of multimode continuous-variable systems. Specifically, we study the ensemble of pure states supported on a small subsystem of a few modes, generated by Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-25 Chang Liu , Qi Camm Huang , Wen Wei Ho

Quantum thermodynamics is often formulated as a theory with constrained access to operations and resources. In this manuscript, we find a closed formula for the Gaussian ergotropy, i.e. the maximum energy that can be extracted from bosonic…

Quantum cooling, a deterministic process that drives any state to the lowest eigenstate, has been widely used from studying ground state properties of chemistry and condensed matter quantum physics, to general optimization problems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-06 Pei Zeng , Jinzhao Sun , Xiao Yuan

We study the energy exchange between two bosonic systems that interact via bilinear transformations in the mode operators. The first mode is considered as the thermodynamic system, while the second is regarded as the bath. This work finds…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-23 Chiara Macchiavello , Alberto Riccardi , Massimiliano F. Sacchi

We study the problem of estimating the temperature of Gaussian systems with feasible measurements, namely Gaussian and photo-detection-like measurements. For Gaussian measurements, we develop a general method to identify the optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-28 Marina F. B. Cenni , Ludovico Lami , Antonio Acin , Mohammad Mehboudi

We study the limitations on coherence evolutions under the constraints of thermodynamic laws, and focus on the optimal thermal operations (TO) reaching the bounds. For qubit case, we find a thermal operation involving only a single-mode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Xueyuan Hu

Constructing optimal thermodynamic processes in quantum systems relies on managing the balance between the average excess work and its stochastic fluctuations. Recently it has been shown that two different quantum generalisations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-06 Mohammad Mehboudi , Harry J. D. Miller

Operational quantum stochastic thermodynamics is a recently proposed theory to study the thermodynamics of open systems based on the rigorous notion of a quantum stochastic process or quantum causal model. In there, a stochastic trajectory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Philipp Strasberg
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