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  1. Correlations in a quantum switch-based heat engine with measurements: A proof-of-principle demonstration

    Article • Quantum Science and Technology, January 2026, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  2. Simulation of dissipative dynamics without interferometers

    Article • The European Physical Journal Plus, November 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  3. Nonequilibrium fluctuations of a quantum heat engine

    Article • Quantum Science and Technology, August 2024, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  4. Exploring quantum thermodynamics with NMR

    Article • Journal of Magnetic Resonance Open, December 2023, Elsevier

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  5. Correlation-boosted quantum engine: A proof-of-principle demonstration

    Article • Physical Review Research, November 2023, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  6. Thermal devices powered by generalized measurements with indefinite causal order

    Article • Physical Review A, January 2023, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  7. Experimental investigation of a quantum heat engine powered by generalized measurements

    Article • Physical Review A, August 2022, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  8. Experimental assessment of physical realism in a quantum-controlled device

    Article • Communications Physics, April 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  9. Experimental Validation of Fully Quantum Fluctuation Theorems Using Dynamic Bayesian Networks

    Article • Physical Review Letters, October 2021, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  10. Easy Access to Energy Fluctuations in Nonequilibrium Quantum Many-Body Systems

    Article • Physical Review Letters, July 2021, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  11. Work-distribution quantumness and irreversibility when crossing a quantum phase transition in finite time

    Article • Physical Review Research, July 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  12. Employing non-Markovian effects to improve the performance of a quantum Otto refrigerator

    Article • July 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  13. Experimental Characterization of a Spin Quantum Heat Engine

    Article • Physical Review Letters, December 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  14. Coherence effects in the performance of the quantum Otto heat engine

    Article • June 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  15. Reversing the direction of heat flow using quantum correlations

    Article • Nature Communications, June 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  16. Role of quantum coherence in the thermodynamics of energy transfer

    Article • June 2018, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  17. Verifying detailed fluctuation relations for discrete feedback-controlled quantum dynamics

    Article • April 2018, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  18. DFT-inspired methods for quantum thermodynamics

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2017, Nature

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  19. Experimental Rectification of Entropy Production by Maxwell’s Demon in a Quantum System

    Article • Physical Review Letters, December 2016, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  20. Practical security analysis of two-way quantum-key-distribution protocols based on nonorthogonal states

    Article • Physical Review A, November 2015, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  21. Irreversibility and the Arrow of Time in a Quenched Quantum System

    Article • Physical Review Letters, November 2015, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  22. Coherent measurements in quantum metrology

    Article • New Journal of Physics, February 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  23. Experimental Reconstruction of Work Distribution and Study of Fluctuation Relations in a Closed Quantum System

    Article • Physical Review Letters, October 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  24. Nonadiabatic quantum state engineering driven by fast quench dynamics

    Article • Physical Review A, February 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  25. Thermodynamic cost of acquiring information

    Article • Physical Review E, December 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  26. Quantum delayed-choice experiment in an environment with arbitrary white noise

    Article • Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical, May 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  27. Quantum Discord in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Systems at Room Temperature

    Article • Brazilian Journal of Physics, February 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  28. OBSERVER INVARIANCE OF THE COLLAPSE POSTULATE OF QUANTUM MECHANICS

    Article • International Journal of Modern Physics B, January 2013, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  29. On the quantumness of correlations in nuclear magnetic resonance

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, September 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  30. Preface

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, September 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  31. Nuclear magnetic resonance quantum information processing

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, September 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  32. Long-range quantum discord in critical spin systems

    Article • Physics Letters A, April 2012, Elsevier

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  33. CLASSICALITY WITNESS FOR TWO-QUBIT STATES

    Article • International Journal of Quantum Information, April 2012, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  34. Experimental analysis of the quantum complementarity principle

    Article • Physical Review A, March 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  35. Experimental Estimate of a Classicality Witness via a Single Measurement

    Article • Physical Review Letters, February 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  36. THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ASPECTS OF QUANTUM DISCORD AND RELATED MEASURES

    Article • International Journal of Quantum Information, October 2011, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  37. Environment-Induced Sudden Transition in Quantum Discord Dynamics

    Article • Physical Review Letters, September 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  38. Quantum computation in continuous time using dynamic invariants

    Article • Physics Letters A, September 2011, Elsevier

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  39. Experimentally Witnessing the Quantumness of Correlations

    Article • Physical Review Letters, August 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  40. Equivalence between Redfield- and master-equation approaches for a time-dependent quantum system and coherence control

    Article • Physical Review A, June 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  41. Quantum and classical thermal correlations in the XY spin- 1 2 chain

    Article • Physical Review A, July 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  42. Sudden change in quantum and classical correlations and the Unruh effect

    Article • Physical Review A, June 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  43. Nonclassical correlation in NMR quadrupolar systems

    Article • Physical Review A, June 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  44. System-reservoir dynamics of quantum and classical correlations

    Article • Physical Review A, February 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  45. Classical and quantum correlations under decoherence

    Article • Physical Review A, October 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  46. A general treatment of geometric phases and dynamical invariants

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), April 2008, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  47. Electromagnetically induced transparency and dynamic Stark effect in coupled quantum resonators

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), November 2005, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  48. Nonadiabatic geometric phase induced by a counterpart of the Stark shift

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), October 2005, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  49. Frequency up- and down-conversions in two-mode cavity quantum electrodynamics

    Article • Physical Review A, April 2005, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  50. Anyons and transmutation of statistics via a vacuum-induced Berry phase

    Article • Physical Review A, October 2004, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  51. Engineering squeezed states in high- Q cavities

    Article • Physical Review A, March 2004, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  52. Squeezing arbitrary cavity-field states through their interaction with a single driven atom

    Article • Physical Review A, December 2003, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  53. Preparation and control of a cavity-field state through an atom–driven-field interaction: Towards long-lived mesoscopic states

    Article • Physical Review A, November 2003, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  54. Proposal to produce long-lived mesoscopic superpositions through an atom–driven field interaction

    Article • Journal of Optics B Quantum and Semiclassical Optics, August 2003, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  55. Single-particle quantum tunnelling in ionic traps

    Article • Journal of Optics B Quantum and Semiclassical Optics, April 2003, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  56. High-fidelity teleportation of entanglements of running-wave field states

    Article • Journal of Optics B Quantum and Semiclassical Optics, August 2002, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  57. The effect of combination of magnetic field and low temperature on doped quantum wells

    Article • Physica E Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, October 2001, Elsevier

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  58. Decoherence in trapped ions due to polarization of the residual background gas

    Article • Physical Review A, August 2001, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  59. Engineering arbitrary motional ionic states through realistic intensity-fluctuating laser pulses

    Article • Physical Review A, April 2001, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  60. Phenomenological-operator approach to introduce damping effects on radiation field states

    Article • Journal of Optics B Quantum and Semiclassical Optics, December 2000, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  61. Engineering cavity-field states by projection synthesis

    Article • Physical Review A, September 2000, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra

  62. Temperature dependence of the absorption coefficient in doped quantum wells

    Article • Brazilian Journal of Physics, December 1999, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Prof Roberto M. Serra