Quantum information in quantum thermal machines.

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Abstract

In this talk, I will present recent advances on the tight interplay between quantum information resources and quantum thermal machines. While quantum correlations are now known to provide an advantage for operating nanoscale thermal machines (even this requires a careful definition of advantage), it is exciting to understand that uncontrolled heat resources can also be exploited to generate quantum correlations. This last feature can be pushed to the point where Bell inequalities can be violated with quantum states produced by out-of-equilibrium dissipative quantum systems. These types of results open fundamental questions concerning minimal resources required for quantum information processing and quantum sensing.