Thermodynamics of Quantum Electronic and Computing Systems

Presentations

• Quantum Darwinism, Thermodynamics, and Quantum Benchmarking

  ORAL · 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
    • University of Maryland Baltimore County

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

  ORAL

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

  Presenters

  • Pratik S Sathe

    • D-Wave Systems Inc.

  Authors

  • Pratik S Sathe

    • D-Wave Systems Inc.

  • Andrew D King

    • D-Wave Systems Inc.
    • D-Wave Systems Inc

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• Quantum thermodynamics of Gross-Pitaevskii qubits

  ORAL

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

  Presenters

  • Sebastian Deffner

    • UMBC
    • University of Maryland Baltimore County

  Authors

  • Sebastian Deffner

    • UMBC
    • University of Maryland Baltimore County

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• Entropy of a double quantum dot

  ORAL

  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 A Kealhofer

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  Authors

  • David A Kealhofer

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Christoph Adam

    • ETH Zürich

  • Max J Ruckriegel

    • ETH Zurich

  • Petar Tomić

    • ETH Zurich

  • Benedikt Kratochwil

    • ETH Zürich

  • Christian Reichl

    • ETH Zurich
    • ETH Zürich

  • Yigal Meir

    • Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

  • Werner Wegscheider

    • ETH Zurich
    • ETH Zürich

  • Thomas Ihn

    • ETH Zurich

  • Klaus Ensslin

    • ETH Zurich

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• The Thermodynamics of Quantum Computing

  ORAL · 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
    • University of Maryland Baltimore County

  • Emery Doucet

    • University of Massachusetts Boston

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• Frictionless quantum free energy estimation with tunable bias

  ORAL

  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

    • University of Michigan
    • Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  • Katherine Klymko

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Diyi Liu

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Roel Van Beeumen

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Ruizhe Zhang

    • Purdue University
    • Department of Computer Science, Purdue University

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• Exploring Quantum Poincaré Recurrence in Superconducting Multi-Qubit Systems

  ORAL

  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

    • Aalto University
    • University of Chicago

  • Gustav Andersson

    • University of Chicago

  • Christopher R Conner

    • University of Chicago

  • Yash J Joshi

    • University of Chicago

  • Amber M King

    • University of Chicago
    • University of chicago

  • Shiheng Li

    • University of Chicago

  • Howard L Malc

    • University of Chicago
    • University of chicago

  • Jacob M Miller

    • University of Chicago

  • Harsh Mishra

    • University of Chicago
    • University of chicago

  • Hong Qiao

    • University of Chicago

  • Minseok Ryu

    • University of Chicago
    • University of chicago

  • Andrew N Cleland

    • University of Chicago

  • Jukka P Pekola

    • Helsinki Univ of Tech
    • Aalto University

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• Abstract Withdrawn

  ORAL · Withdrawn

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

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

  ORAL

  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 T Nordqvist

    • Chalmers Univ of Tech

  • Khalak Mahadeviya

    • Trinity College Dublin

  • Vyom M Kulkarni

    • Chalmers University of Technology

  • Mark T 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

  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

    • TU Wien

  • Federico Fedele

    • University of Oxford

  • Ralph Silva

    • ETH Zurich

  • Nuriya Nurgalieva

    • ETH Zurich

  • David Craig

    • University of Oxford

  • Daniel Jirovec

    • TU Delft

  • Jaime Saez-Mollejo

    • IST Austria

  • Andrea Ballabio

    • Politecnico di Milano

  • Daniel Chrastina

    • Politecnico di Milano

  • Giovanni Isella

    • Politecnico di Milano

  • Marcus Huber

    • TU Wien
    • Technical University of Vienna

  • Mark T Mitchison

    • Trinity College Dublin

  • Paul Erker

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

  • Natalia Ares

    • University of Oxford

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