THERMODYNAMICS ESTOCASTICA OF QUANTIC DEVICES

Operation co-funded by EU cohesion policy (European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)) under the programme Multi-regional Spain - ERDF (2014ES16RFOP002), managing authority: Subdirección General de Gestión del FEDER, de la Dirección General de Fondos Europeos del Ministerio de Hacienda.. The source names no beneficiary for this operation. Location: Tenerife (NUTS ES709); Spain. Budget: total eligible expenditure EUR 33,638; EU co-financing EUR 28,592.3 (co-financing rate 85%), as stated by the source. Runs 2018-01-01 to 2022-09-30. Source: Kohesio, EU cohesion policy projects managed by national and regional authorities (not CORDIS). Summary from Kohesio (English machine translation by the source): THE STUDY OF OPEN SYSTEMS INTERACTING WITH SEVERAL ENVIRONMENTS BY USING BOTH THE THEORY OF OPEN QUANTUM SYSTEMS AND STOCHASTIC METHODS HAS LAID THE FOUNDATIONS OF A NEW ''MICROSCOPIC THERMODYNAMICS''. THESE TWO MAIN APPROACHES ARE USUALLY REFERRED TO AS THE QUANTUM THERMODYNAMICS, WHICH STUDIES THE EMERGENCE OF THE THERMODYNAMIC PRINCIPLES FROM THE UNDERLYING QUANTUM DYNAMICS, AND THE STOCHASTIC THERMODYNAMICS, WHICH DEFINES THE PROPER QUANTITIES AT THE LEVEL OF INDIVIDUAL RANDOM TRAJECTORIES. THESE THEORIES PROVIDE A CONSISTENT FRAMEWORK IN THE WEAK SYSTEM-ENVIROMENT COUPLING REGIME BY EMPLOYING MASTER EQUATIONS. THE QUANTUM AND STOCHASTIC THERMODYNAMICS HAVE ALSO BEEN EMPLOYED IN ORDER TO ANALYZE MICROSCOPIC THERMAL MACHINES, WORK AND HEAT FLUXES HAVE BEEN CHARACTERIZED USING PROPER DEFINITIONS THAT ARE CONSISTENT WITH THEIR MACROSCOPIC COUNTERPARTS. THUS, SUCH MACHINES GENERALLY FULFILL PERFOMANCE BOUNDS THAT ARE ANALOGOUS TO THE CLASSICAL ONES. HOWEVER, AN OPEN AND INTERESTING CHALLENGE IS TO IDENTIFY SITUATIONS FOR WHICH THE PERFORMANCE OF A QUANTUM MACHINE IS ABOVE THE CORRESPONDING CLASSICAL COUNTERPART. IN THIS SENSE, COHERENCES HAVE BEEN POINTED OUT AS THE MAIN RESOURCE. THIS UBIQUITUS ROLE OF COHERENCES IN THE VERY DEFINITION OF QUANTUMNESS MAKES THEM AN OBJECT OF STUDY IN THEMSELVES. WITHIN ALL THESE APPROACHES, MASTER EQUATIONS DESCRIBE THE EVOLUTION OF THE MEAN VALUES OF THE TERMODYNAMIC QUANTITIES. NEVERTHELESS, IT IS INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT TO STUDY IN DEPTH THE ROLE OF THE FLUCTUATIONS IN THE EXPERIMENTAL IMPLEMENTATION OF QUANTUM MACHINES. FOR THIS REASON, ONE OF OUR OBJECTIVES IS TO CHARACTERIZE THE FLUCTUATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DIFFERENT CONSTITUENT CIRCUITS OF THERMAL MACHINES WITH DISCRETE LEVELS. MOREOVER, IN THE WEAK COUPLING REGIME HAS BEEN STUDIED THE ENERGY TRANSPORT THROUGH QUANTUM AND CLASSICAL THERMAL CONDUCTORS COUPLED TO TWO BATHS AT DIFFERENT TEMPERATURES. FOR INSTANCE, WE HAVE FOUND A DIRECT LINK BETWEEN THE SPATIAL ARRANGEMENT [shortened; the full text is on the Kohesio page]

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Source: Kohesio (EU cohesion policy projects), European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO). Retrieved 2026-10-21. Licence: CC0 1.0 (Cohesion Open Data Platform, dataset 2014-2020 Kohesio projects). Selected metadata, adapted presentation; the publisher's record is authoritative. No endorsement by the source is implied. Licence: public domain dedication (CC0 1.0).

AI-assisted summary: The project "THERMODYNAMICS ESTOCASTICA OF QUANTIC DEVICES" was co-funded by the EU with a budget of EUR 33,638, running from January 1, 2018, to September 30, 2022, in Tenerife, Spain. It focuses on the study of open systems using quantum and stochastic thermodynamics. Suggested technology pillar: simulation. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.