We study how thermodynamic laws and intuitions emerge, and sometimes fail, in microscopic quantum systems driven far from equilibrium. A major focus is identifying quantum resources (coherence, correlations, contextuality) that reshape energy and entropy flows, and turning them into operational signatures that can be tested in realistic platforms. Our work spans quantum thermal machines (heat engines, refrigerators, and energy storage at the few-level/ion/qubit scale), fundamental limits such as the third law, and fluctuation relations beyond the standard two-time measurement paradigm, using tools like quasiprobability descriptions of heat and work statistics to capture genuinely quantum effects.

Selected publications:

1. S. H. Gómez, T. Isogawa, A. Belenchia, A. Levy, N. Fabbri, S. Gherardini, P. Cappellaro; Interferometry of quantum correlation functions to access quasiprobability distribution of work, npj Quantum Information 10, 115 (2024)
    
2. L. M. Cangemi, C. Bahadra, A. Levy; Quantum engines and refrigerators, Physics Reports 1087, 1-71 (2024)
    
3.  Projective measurements can probe non-classical work extraction and time-correlations Physical Review Research 6 (2), 023280 (2024)
    
4. M. Lostaglio, A. Belenchia, A. Levy, S. Hernández-Gómez, N. Fabbri, S. Gherardini; Kirkwood-Dirac quasiprobability approach to quantum fluctuations: Theoretical and experimental perspectives, Quantum 7, 1128 (2023)
    
5. A. Levy, Matteo Lostaglio, Quasiprobability distribution for heat fluctuations in the quantum regime, Physical Review X Quantum 1 010309 (2020)
    
6. A. Levy, L. Diosi, R. Kosloff, Quantum flywheel, Physical Review A 93 (5), 052119 (2016)
    
7. R. Uzdin, A. Levy, R. Kosloff, Equivalence of quantum heat machines, and quantum-thermodynamic signatures, Physical Review X 5 (3), 031044 (2015)
    
8. R. Kosloff, A. Levy, Quantum Heat Engines and Refrigerators: Continuous Devices, Annual Review of Physical Chemistry 65, 365 (2014)
    
9. A. Levy, R. Alicki, R. Kosloff, Quantum refrigerators and the third law of thermodynamics, Physical Review E 85 (6), 061126 (2012)
    
10.  A. Levy, R. Kosloff, Quantum Absorption Refrigerator, Physical Review Letters 108 (7), 70604 (2012)