2020/06/24 by Sebastian Deffner, Marcus V. S. Bonança
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Control (management) #Control and Stability of Dynamical Systems #Field (mathematics) #Mechanical and Optical Resonators #Perspective (graphical) #Point (geometry) #Quantum #Variety (cybernetics) #cond-mat.stat-mech
paper · pdf · doi:10.1209/0295-5075/131/20001
published as EPL (Europhys. Lett.) 131, 20001 (2020) · 7 pages, 1 figure; Short review paper intended as Perspective in EPL (Europhys. Lett)
arxiv created 2020/06/24 · openalex created_date 2020/07/02 · openalex publication_date 2020/08/07 · arxiv updated 2020/08/11 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Tremendous research efforts have been invested in exploring and designing so-called shortcuts to adiabaticity. These are finite-time processes that produce the same final states that would result from infinitely slow driving. Most of these techniques rely on auxiliary fields and quantum control, which makes them rather costly to implement. In this Perspective we outline an alternative paradigm for optimal control that has proven powerful in a wide variety of situations ranging from heat engines over chemical reactions to quantum dynamics —thermodynamic control. Focusing on only a few, selected milestones we seek to provide a pedagogical entry point into this powerful and versatile framework.