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The laws of thermodynamics put limits to the efficiencies of thermal machines. Analogues of these laws are now established for quantum engines weakly and passively coupled to the environment providing a framework to find improvements to…

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We address the detailed study of the energy current and its components, heat and work, in the boundary-driven 1D XXZ quantum model. We carry out the investigation by considering two different approaches present in the literature. First, we…

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