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Based on quantum thermodynamic processes, we make a quantum-mechanical (QM) extension of the typical heat engine cycles, such as the Carnot, Brayton, Otto, and Diesel cycles, etc. The temperature is not included in these QM engine cycles,…

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Advancements in scientific instrument sensors and connected devices provide unprecedented insight into ongoing experiments and present new opportunities for control, optimization, and steering. However, the diversity of sensors and…

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While the emergent field of quantum thermodynamics has the potential to impact energy science, the performance of thermal machines is often classical. We ask whether quantum effects can boost the performance of a thermal machine to reach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 Juan Jaramillo , Mathieu Beau , Adolfo del Campo

We present results concerning aspects of quantum thermodynamics under the background of non-Hermitian quantum mechanics for the dynamics of a quantum harmonic oscillator. Since a better control over the parameters in quantum thermodynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Jonas F. G. Santos , Fabricio S. Luiz

We present a rigorous approach, based on the concept of continuous thermomajorisation, to algorithmically characterise the full set of energy occupations of a quantum system accessible from a given initial state through weak interactions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-08 Kamil Korzekwa , Matteo Lostaglio

Scientific progress is tightly coupled to the emergence of new research tools. Today, machine learning (ML)-especially deep learning (DL)-has become a transformative instrument for quantum science and technology. Owing to the intrinsic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Timothy Heightman , Marcin Płodzień

New discoveries in chemistry and materials science, with increasingly expanding volume of requisite knowledge and experimental workload, provide unique opportunities for machine learning (ML) to take critical roles in accelerating research…

Optimization of cyclic stochastic heat engines, a topic spanning decades of research, commonly assumes fixed control or response parameters at discrete points in the cycle-a limitation that often leads to experimentally impractical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-02 Monojit Chatterjee , Viktor Holubec , Rahul Marathe

We present a measurement-based quantum thermal machine that extracts work from the back-action of generalized quantum measurements whose working medium is a coupled two-level quantum system. Specifically, we derive universal optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Chinonso Onah , Obinna Uzoh , Obinna Abah

The realization of high-fidelity quantum control is crucial for quantum information processing, particularly in noisy environments where control strategies must simultaneously achieve precise manipulation and effective noise suppression.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 JunDong Zhong , ZhaoMing Wang

In quantum thermodynamics, a system is described by a Hamiltonian and a list of non-commuting charges representing conserved quantities like particle number or electric charge, and an important goal is to determine the system's minimum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-19 Nana Liu , Michele Minervini , Dhrumil Patel , Mark M. Wilde

We characterize finite-time thermodynamic processes of multidimensional quadratic overdamped systems. Analytic expressions are provided for heat, work, and dissipation for any evolution of the system covariance matrix. The Bures-Wasserstein…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-28 Paolo Abiuso , Viktor Holubec , Janet Anders , Zhuolin Ye , Federico Cerisola , Martí Perarnau-Llobet

Recent advancements in quantum computing (QC) and machine learning (ML) have garnered significant attention, leading to substantial efforts toward the development of quantum machine learning (QML) algorithms to address a variety of complex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-18 Samuel Yen-Chi Chen

Heat-Bath Algorithmic Cooling is a set of techniques for producing highly pure quantum systems by utilizing a surrounding heat-bath and unitary interactions. These techniques originally used the thermal environment only to fully thermalize…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Álvaro M. Alhambra , Matteo Lostaglio , Christopher Perry

We present an optimization-based approach for trajectory planning and control of a maneuverable melting probe with a high number of binary control variables. The dynamics of the system are modeled by a set of ordinary differential equations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-14 Christian Meerpohl , Kathrin Flaßkamp , Christof Büskens

Quantum steering, an intermediate quantum correlation lying between entanglement and nonlocality, has emerged as a critical quantum resource for a variety of quantum information processing tasks such as quantum key distribution and true…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Yansa Lu , Zhihua Chen , Zhihao Ma , Shao-Ming Fei

Robust and high-precision quantum control is crucial but challenging for scalable quantum computation and quantum information processing. Traditional adiabatic control suffers severe limitations on gate performance imposed by…

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) holds the promise of enhancing machine learning modeling in terms of both complexity and accuracy. A key challenge in this domain is the encoding of input data, which plays a pivotal role in determining the…

This study proposes a computationally efficient method for optimizing multi-zone thermostatically controlled loads (TCLs) by leveraging dimensionality reduction through an auto-encoder. We develop a multi-task learning framework to jointly…

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