Gianluca Francica

TL;DR: The thermodynamics of closed quantum systems driven out of equilibrium by a change in a control parameter and undergoing a unitary process is discussed and it is shown that a specific fluctuation relation for the entropy production associated with the inner friction exists.

TL;DR: It is proved that a division of the irreversible work can be made into a coherent and incoherent part, which provides an operational criterion for quantifying the coherent contribution in a generic nonequilibrium transformation on a closed quantum system.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how the presence of quantum correlations can influence work extraction in closed quantum systems, establishing a new link between the field of quantum non-equilibrium thermodynamics and the one of quantum information theory.

TL;DR: In this paper, the emergence of spontaneous synchronization for an open spin-pair system interacting only via a common environment is discussed, and the connection between spontaneous synchronization and robust quantum correlations between the two spins, analyzing differences between dissipative and dephasing effects.

TL;DR: This work identifies a coherent contribution to the ergotropy (the maximum amount of unitarily extractable work via cyclical variation of Hamiltonian parameters) and shows this by dividing the optimal transformation into an incoherent operation and a coherence extraction cycle.