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Diamond quantum thermometry exploits the optical and electrical spin properties of colour defect centres in diamonds and, acts as a quantum sensing method exhibiting ultrahigh precision and robustness. Compared to the existing luminescent…

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Measuring the temperature of a two-dimensional electron gas at temperatures of a few mK is a challenging issue, which standard thermometry schemes may fail to tackle. We propose and analyze a nongalvanic thermometer, based on a quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-20 S. Gasparinetti , M. J. Martínez-Pérez , S. de Franceschi , J. P. Pekola , F. Giazotto

Considering a general microscopic model for a quantum measuring apparatus comprising a quantum probe coupled to a thermal bath, we analyze the energetic resources necessary for the realization of a quantum measurement, which includes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 Camille L Latune , Cyril Elouard

Recently implemented quantum devices such as quantum processors and quantum simulators combine highly complicated quantum dynamics with high-resolution measurements. We present a passivity deformation methodology that sets thermodynamic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Raam Uzdin , Saar Rahav

This study maps the quantum landscape of superconducting diodes (SDs) \cite{nadeem23} onto the quantum technology architecture, which is currently constrained by fundamental challenges in control and scalability. In the existing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-17 Muhammad Nadeem , Xiaolin Wang

We report on low temperature measurements in a fully tunable carbon nanotube double quantum dot. A new fabrication technique has been used for the top-gates in order to avoid covering the whole nanotube with an oxide layer as in previous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sami Sapmaz , Carola Meyer , Piotr Beliczynski , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Leo P. Kouwenhoven

Using the tools of random matrix theory we develop a statistical analysis of the transport properties of thermoelectric low-dimensional systems made of two electron reservoirs set at different temperatures and chemical potentials, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-23 Adel Abbout , Henni Ouerdane , Christophe Goupil

We present a control scheme for quantum systems coupled to a thermal bath. We demonstrate state-to-state control between two Gibbs states. This scheme can be used to accelerate thermalization and cool the open system. Starting from a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 Roie Dann , Ander Tobalina , Ronnie Kosloff

An optimal local quantum thermometer is a quantum many-body system that saturates the fundamental lower bound for the thermal state temperature estimation accuracy [L. Correa, et. al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 220405 (2015)]. Such a…

In this review the debated rapport between thermodynamics and quantum mechanics is addressed in the framework of the theory of periodically-driven/controlled quantum-thermodynamic machines. The basic model studied here is that of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-15 D. Gelbwaser-Klimovsky , Wolfgang Niedenzu , Gershon Kurizki

We study the heat statistics of a multi-level $N$-dimensional quantum system monitored by a sequence of projective measurements. The late-time, asymptotic properties of the heat characteristic function are analyzed in the thermodynamic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Stefano Gherardini , Guido Giachetti , Stefano Ruffo , Andrea Trombettoni

Quantum thermodynamics has emerged as a separate sub-discipline, revising the concepts and laws of thermodynamics, at the quantum scale. In particular, there has been a disruptive shift in the way thermometry, and thermometers are perceived…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Wai-Keong Mok , Kishor Bharti , Leong-Chuan Kwek , Abolfazl Bayat

Quantum thermometry leveraging quantum sensors is investigated with an emphasis on fundamental precision bounds derived from quantum estimation theory. The proposed sensing platform consists of two dissimilar qubits coupled via capacitor,…

The quest for good thermoelectric materials and/or high-efficiency thermoelectric devices is of primary importance from theoretical and practical points of view. Low-dimensional structures with quantum dots or molecules are promising…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-24 Ulrich Eckern , Karol I. Wysokiński

The precise measurement of low temperatures is a challenging, important and fundamental task for quantum science. In particular, in-situ thermometry is highly desirable for cold atomic systems due to their potential for quantum simulation.…

We discuss theoretically the ground state of a Bose-Einstein condensate with attractive atom-atom interactions in a double-well trap as a starting point of Heisenberg-limited atom interferometry. The dimensionless parameter governing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Juha Javanainen , Han Chen

In this work, we study the thermodynamics of a two-level system (qubit) embedded in a finite-temperature structured-bath under periodical measurements. The system under measurements will reach a quasi-steady state, whose effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Jia-Ming Zhang , Jun Jing , Lian-Ao Wu , Li-Gang Wang , Shi-Yao Zhu

Employing universal relations for the Onsager coefficients in the linear regime at the symmetric point of the single impurity Anderson model, we calculate the conditions under which the quantum scattering phase shift should satisfy to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-03 R. S. Cortes-Santamaria , J. A. Landazabal-Rodríguez , J. Silva-Valencia , E. Ramos , M. S. Figueira , R. Franco

Scaling superconducting quantum computers to the fault-tolerant regime calls for a commensurate scaling of the classical control and readout stack. Today's systems largely rely on room-temperature, rack-based instrumentation connected to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Shiro Kawabata

We show that a local measurement of temperature and voltage for a quantum system in steady state, arbitrarily far from equilibrium, with arbitrary interactions within the system, is unique when it exists. This is interpreted as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 Abhay Shastry , Charles A. Stafford