@Nat. Comm. Physics: Assessing physical realism experimentally in a quantum-controlled device
Bohr’s complementarity principle has been challenged by quantum delayed-choice experiments wherein quantum systems are claimed to behave...
@PRL Experimental Validation of Fully Quantum Fluctuation Theorems
Fluctuation theorems are fundamental extensions of the second law of thermodynamics for small systems. Their general validity arbitrarily...
@PRL Easy Access to Energy Fluctuations
A new article combined theoretical and experimental efforts to propose a method for studying energy fluctuations, in particular, to...
@PRL Quantum engine operating at maximum power
A new experimental proof-of-concept quantum Otto cycle, using nuclear spins, has reached an efficiency close to its thermodynamic limit...
@Nature Communications: Reversion of heat flow using quantum correlations
Irreversibility is a longstanding puzzle in physics. While microscopic laws of motion are invariant under time reversal, all macroscopic...
@PRL High-Dimensional Quantum Communication Complexity
Quantum resources can improve communication complexity problems (CCPs) beyond their classical constraints. One quantum approach is to...
@PRL Second Law in an Optical Cavity and a BEC
In the continuum from quantum to classical, there exists a paradox. Classical machines like heaters cannot run in reverse (and...
Tiago Batalhão awarded the CAPES Best Thesis Prize
Dr Tiago Batalhão (our former PhD student) was awarded the best thesis Grand Prize in Natural Sciences and Engineering 2017 afforded...
@PRL Maxwell’s Demon Meets Nonequilibrium Quantum Thermodynamics
A new implementation of a Maxwell’s demon can control entropy production in a quantum-mechanical system that is driven out of thermal...
