News & Events
Today Janet gives a talk at the annual Quantum Thermodynamics conference (QTD2021) on “Steady states and mean force Gibbs states”. The talk slides are here and the papers are here, here and here.
Today Janet speaks at the City University New York (CUNY)’s Graduate Center, where she will be giving an introduction to quantum thermodynamics.
Zoe Holmes’ paper on the work extracted to an optomechanical membrane when mixing two partially distinguishable photon gases has been published today in New Journal of Physics https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/abc602/meta
On 21 October 2020 Janet gave a talk at the annual Quantum Thermodynamics conference (QTD2020) on “Deriving a generalised Landau-Lifschitz-Gilbert equation from a system+bath Hamiltonian”.
The video is here, the talk slides are here and the paper is here.
On 15 October 2020 Janet gave a talk at the Quantum Thermodynamics of Non-equilibrium systems Workshop (QTDNEQ) on “Thermodynamic signatures of distinguishability in an optomechanical setting”.
The talk slides are here and the papers are here and here.
Welcome to Federico Cerisola, who starts his postdoc this week in collaboration with the Materials group at the University of Oxford!
Welcome to Marco Berritta, who starts his postdoc this week in in the Quantum Non-equilibrium group!
This week Janet explains the basics of quantum cryptography to Year 12 students selected for our Exeter Scholars programme, https://www.exeter.ac.uk/exeterscholars/currentparticipants/year12subjectactivitystrandsdatesinformation/virtualresidential2020/physicalsciencesandengineering/.
Zoe Holmes’ paper on indistinguishable photons’ enhancement of the energy transfer to an optomechnical membrane (a consequence of the Hong-Ou-Mandel effect) has been published today in Physical Review Letters https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.210601
Hamed Mohammady’s paper on two types of Entropy Production arising from the irreversible removal of classical non-thermality and quantum coherence, respectively, has been published today in Communication Physics https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-020-0356-9
Harry Miller’s paper on a quantum correction to the standard work fluctuation-dissipation relation valid in the slow driving limit has been published today in Physical Review Letters https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.230603
Welcome to Jesus Rubio, who will start his postdoc this week in the Quantum Non-equilibrium group!
Welcome to Stefano Scali, who will start his PhD this week in the Quantum Non-equilibrium group!
Marti Perarnau Llobet, quantum thermodynamics theorist and postdoc at the MPI for Quantum Optics in Garching, is visiting our group this week.
https://www.mpq.mpg.de/person/50649/4571983
James Cresser, open quantum systems expert and affliated research fellow at Glasgow University, is visiting our group this week.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/James_Cresser
Andrew Daley, quantum many-body theorist at the University of Strathclyde, is visiting our group this week.
https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/daleyandrewprof/
Janet is giving a Colloquium today at the KTH in Stockholm.
http://agenda.albanova.se/categoryDisplay.py?categId=301
Research by PhD student Harry Miller on the Energy-temperature uncertainty relation in quantum thermodynamics has been published today in Nature Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04536-7
Our paper, first-authored by Aalto University PhD student Rui Sampaio, describing how “work” is naturally defined along quantum trajectories within the Bohmian framework has been published today in Phys. Rev. A https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.97.012131
Research done together with Sania Jevtic at Imperial College London on the role of enzymes in the transfer of a hydrogen atom has been published today in Journal of Chemical Physics http://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.4998941
Mio Murao, leader of the quantum information group at the University of Tokyo, will be visiting our group next week.
http://www.eve.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/people_e.html
Janet’s paper with Benjamin Huard’s Quantum Electronics group, reporting on the realisation of a quantum Maxwell demon with superconducting circuits, is published today in PNAS
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/06/30/1704827114.abstract
Sai Vinjanampathy will be visiting the Quantum Non-Equilibrium group next week.
http://www.phy.iitb.ac.in/en/content/sai-vinjanampathy
Harry and Janet’s paper, discussing entropy production in the strong coupling regime is published today in Phys. Rev. E https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.95.062123
Rui Sampaio will be visiting the Quantum Non-Equilibrium group next week.
https://people.aalto.fi/new/rui.ferreirasampaio
Ian Ford will be visiting the Quantum Non-Equilibrium group today.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucapijf/
Harry’s first paper, discussing quantum fluctuating work along trajectories in the histories framework is published today a Fast Track communication in New Journal of Physics. http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/aa703f
Hamed’s paper, discussing constraints on a quantum heat engine that operates by measurement rather than by using heat from a thermal reservoir has appeared on the arxiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.00938
Our paper with Paolo Solinas on Measurement-dependent corrections to work distributions arising from quantum coherences has appeared on the arxiv today. https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.10296
Luis Correa will be visiting the Quantum Non-Equilibrium group tomorrow.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Ee5_fHoAAAAJ&hl=en