Preprints

Everything Everywhere All At Once: A First Principles Numerical Demonstration of Emergent Decoherent Histories
PS, TE Reinhard, J Schindler (arXiv)

The arXiv graveyard (papers, which were nowhere submitted, forever lost on the arXiv...)

Entropy production as change in observational entropy
PS (arXiv)

2023

Classicality, Markovianity, and local detailed balance from pure state dynamics
PS, A Winter, J Gemmer, J Wang, Phys. Rev. A 108, 012225 (link, arXiv)

Classicality with(out) decoherence: Concepts, relation to Markovianity, and a random matrix theory approach
PS, SciPost Phys. 15, 024 (link, arXiv)

Equilibration of Non-Markovian Quantum Processes in Finite Time Intervals
N Dowling, P Figueroa-Romero, FA Pollock, PS, K Modi, SciPost Phys. Core 6, 043 (link, arXiv)

Relaxation of Multitime Statistics in Quantum Systems
N Dowling, P Figueroa-Romero, FA Pollock, PS, K Modi, Quantum 7, 1027 (link, arXiv)

2022

Open quantum systems coupled to finite baths: A hierarchy of master equations
A Riera-Campeny, A Sanpera, and PS, Phys. Rev. E 105, 054119 (link, arXiv)

How long does it take to implement a projective measurement?
PS, K Modi, and M Skotiniotis, Eur. J. Phys. 43, 035404 (link, arXiv)

2021

Clausius inequality for finite baths reveals universal efficiency improvements
PS, MG Díaz, and A Riera-Campeny, Phys. Rev. E Lett. 104, L022103 (link, arXiv)

First and Second Law of Quantum Thermodynamics: A Consistent Derivation Based on a Microscopic Definition of Entropy
PS and A Winter, Phys. Rev. X Quantum 2, 030202 (link, arXiv)

Autonomous Implementation of Thermodynamic Cycles at the Nanoscale
PS, CW Wächtler, and G Schaller, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 180605 (link, arXiv)

Quantum systems correlated with a finite bath: Nonequilibrium dynamics and thermodynamics
A Riera-Campeny, A Sanpera, and PS, Phys. Rev. X Quantum 2, 010340 (link, arXiv)

2020

Reply to “Comment on ‘Measurability of nonequilibrium thermodynamics in terms of the Hamiltonian of mean force’ "
PS and M Esposito, Phys. Rev. E 102, 066102 (link, arXiv).

Measurability of nonequilibrium thermodynamics in terms of the Hamiltonian of mean force
PS and M Esposito, Phys. Rev. E 101(R), 050101 (link, arXiv)

Thermodynamics of Quantum Causal Models: An Inclusive, Hamiltonian Approach
PS, Quantum 4, 240 (link, arXiv)

2019

Repeated interactions and quantum stochastic thermodynamics at strong coupling
PS, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 180604 (link, arXiv)

Stochastic thermodynamics with arbitrary interventions
PS and A Winter, Phys. Rev. E 100, 022135 (link, arXiv)

Operational approach to quantum stochastic thermodynamics
PS, Phys. Rev. E 100, 022127 (link, arXiv).

Classical quantum stochastic processes
PS and MG Díaz, Phys. Rev. A 100, 022120 (link, arXiv)

Proposal of a realistic stochastic rotor engine based on electron shuttling
CW Wächtler, PS, G Schaller, Phys. Rev. Applied 12, 024001 (link, arXiv).

Stochastic thermodynamics of self-oscillations: the electron shuttle
CW Wächtler, PS, SHL Klapp, G Schaller, and C Jarzynski, New J. Phys. 21, 073009 (link, arXiv).

Non-Markovianity and negative entropy production rates
PS and M Esposito, Phys. Rev. E 99, 012120 (link, arXiv).

2018

Response functions as quantifiers of non-Markovianity
PS and M Esposito, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 040601 (link, arXiv).

From quantum heat engines to laser cooling: Floquet theory beyond the Born-Markov approximation
S Restrepo, J Cerrillo, PS, and G Schaller, New J. Phys. 20, 053063 (link, arXiv).

Fermionic reaction coordinates and their application to an autonomous Maxwell demon in the strong coupling regime
PS, G Schaller, TL Schmidt, and M Esposito, Phys. Rev. B 97, 205405 (link, arXiv).

An electronic Maxwell demon in the coherent strong-coupling regime
G Schaller, J Cerrillo, G Engelhardt, and PS, Phys. Rev. B 97, 195104 (link, arXiv).

2017

Stochastic thermodynamics in the strong coupling regime: An unambiguous approach based on coarse-graining
PS and M Esposito, Phys. Rev. E 95, 062101 (link, arXiv).

Quantum and information thermodynamics: a unifying framework based on repeated interactions
PS, G Schaller, T Brandes, and M Esposito, Phys. Rev. X 7, 021003 (link, arXiv).

Strong suppression of shot noise in a feedback-controlled single-electron transistor
T Wagner, PS, JC Bayer, EP Rugeramigabo, T Brandes, and RJ Haug, Nature Nanotech. 12, 218 (link, arXiv).

2016

Stochastic thermodynamics based on incomplete information: Generalized Jarzynski equality with measurement errors with or without feedback
CW Wächtler, PS, and T Brandes, New J. Phys. 18, 113042 (link, arXiv).

Nonequilibrium thermodynamics in the strong coupling and non-Markovian regime based on a reaction coordinate mapping
PS, G Schaller, N Lambert, and T Brandes, New J. Phys. 18, 073007 (link, arXiv).

Controlling the stability of steady states in continuous variable quantum systems
PS, G Schaller, and T Brandes, in Control of Self-Organizing Nonlinear Systems, Springer International Publishing, pp. 289 - 313 (link, arXiv).

2015

Thermodynamics of stochastic Turing machines
PS, J Cerrillo, G Schaller, and T Brandes, Phys. Rev. E 92, 042104 (link, arXiv).

2014

The Second Laws for an Information driven Current through a Spin Valve
PS, G Schaller, T Brandes, and C Jarzynski, Phys. Rev. E 90, 062107 (link, arXiv).

2013

Thermodynamics of Quantum-Jump-Conditioned Feedback Control
PS, G Schaller, T Brandes, and M Esposito, Phys. Rev. E 88, 062107 (link, arXiv).

Thermodynamics of a Physical Model implementing a Maxwell Demon
PS, G Schaller, T Brandes, and M Esposito, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 040601 (link, arXiv).
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