Thermodynamics of Quantum Electronic and Computing Systems

Presentations

• Quantum Darwinism, Thermodynamics, and Quantum Benchmarking

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 19, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Publication: Manuscript in preparation, to be available on arXiv by the end of the month.

  Presenters

  • Emery Doucet

    • University of Massachusetts Boston

  Authors

  • Emery Doucet

    • University of Massachusetts Boston

  • Akira Sone

    • University of Massachusetts Boston

  • Sebastian Deffner

    • UMBC

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• Extracting the Nishimori line in Random-Bond Ising Models with Quantum Annealing

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Pratik Sathe

    • D-Wave Systems Inc.

  Authors

  • Pratik Sathe

    • D-Wave Systems Inc.

  • Andrew King

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• Quantum thermodynamics of Gross-Pitaevskii qubits

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Sebastian Deffner

    • UMBC

  Authors

  • Sebastian Deffner

    • UMBC

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• Entropy of a double quantum dot

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Publication: accepted manuscript: https://doi.org/10.1103/gl59-td1w; preprint https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09481v1

  Presenters

  • David Kealhofer

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  Authors

  • David Kealhofer

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Christoph Adam

  • Max Ruckriegel

    • ETH Zurich

  • Petar Tomić

    • ETH Zurich

  • Benedikt Kratochwil

  • Christian Reichl

  • Yigal Meir

    • Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

  • Werner Wegscheider

  • Thomas Ihn

    • ETH Zurich

  • Klaus Ensslin

    • ETH Zurich

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• The Thermodynamics of Quantum Computing

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 19, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 19, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Akram Touil

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  Authors

  • Akram Touil

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Fabio Anza

    • University of Maryland, Baltimore County

  • Emery Doucet

    • University of Massachusetts Boston

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• Frictionless quantum free energy estimation with tunable bias

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 19, 2026, 5:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Yizhi Shen

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Yizhi Shen

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Zhiyan Ding

  • Katherine Klymko

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Diyi Liu

    • University of Minnesota

  • Roel Van Beeumen

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Ruizhe Zhang

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• Exploring Quantum Poincaré Recurrence in Superconducting Multi-Qubit Systems

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 5:30 PM – March 19, 2026, 5:42 PM

  Publication: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.13489

  Presenters

  • Xuntao Wu

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Xuntao Wu

    • University of Chicago

  • Bayan Karimi

    • University of Chicago

  • Gustav Andersson

    • University of Chicago

  • Christopher Conner

    • University of Chicago

  • Yash Joshi

    • University of Chicago

  • Amber King

  • Shiheng Li

    • University of Chicago

  • Howard Malc

  • Jacob Miller

    • University of Chicago

  • Harsh Mishra

  • Hong Qiao

    • University of Chicago

  • Minseok Ryu

  • Andrew Cleland

    • University of Chicago

  • Jukka Pekola

    • Aalto University

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• When Dephasing Fails: Thermodynamic Consequences of Decoherence Models in Quantum Transport

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 19, 2026, 5:42 PM – March 19, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Publication: J. Chem. Phys. 163, 164104 (2025)

  Presenters

  • Eren Erdogan

  Authors

  • Justin Bergfield

    • Illinois State University

  • Eren Erdogan

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• Toward a quantum advantage in the thermodynamics of precision in a superconducting circuit

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 5:54 PM – March 19, 2026, 6:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Aamir Mohammed Ali

    • Chalmers Univ of Tech

  Authors

  • Aamir Mohammed Ali

    • Chalmers Univ of Tech

  • Simon Sundelin

    • Chalmers Univ of Tech

  • Ludvig Nordqvist

  • Khalak Mahadeviya

  • Vyom Kulkarni

    • Chalmers University of Technology

  • Mark Mitchison

    • Trinity College Dublin

  • Simone Gasparinetti

    • Chalmers University of Technology

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• Entropic costs of extracting classical ticks from a quantum clock

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 6:06 PM – March 19, 2026, 6:18 PM

  Publication: V. Wadhia, F. Meier, F. Fedele, R. Silva, N. Nurgalieva, D. L. Craig, D. Jirovec, J. Saez-Mollejo, A. Ballabio, D. Chrastina, G. Isella, M. Huber, M. T. Mitchison, P. Erker and N. Ares, Entropic costs of extracting classical ticks from a quantum clock, Phys. Rev. Lett. (2025)

  Presenters

  • Vivek Wadhia

    • University of Oxford

  Authors

  • Vivek Wadhia

    • University of Oxford

  • Florian Meier

  • Federico Fedele

    • University of Oxford

  • Ralph Silva

  • Nuriya Nurgalieva

  • David Craig

  • Daniel Jirovec

  • Jaime Saez-Mollejo

  • Andrea Ballabio

  • Daniel Chrastina

  • Giovanni Isella

  • Marcus Huber

  • Mark Mitchison

    • Trinity College Dublin

  • Paul Erker

    • Atominstitut (TU Wien) & IQOQI Vienna (ÖAW)

  • Natalia Ares

    • University of Oxford

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