Speeding up thermalisation via open quantum system variational optimisation Nishchay Suri, Felix C. Binder, Bhaskaran Muralidharan and Sai Vinjanampathy Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics, 227 3-4 (2018) 203-216 Published online: 28 September 2018 DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2018-00125-6