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Publications (129)

quant-ph2018

Quantum Zeno effect in correlated qubits

Dominik Šafránek, Sebastian Deffner

Near term quantum hardware promises to achieve quantum supremacy. From a quantum dynamical point of view, however, it is not unambiguously clear whether fundamental peculiarities o…

quant-ph2025

Quantum speed limit for the OTOC from an open systems perspective

Devjyoti Tripathy, Juzar Thingna, Sebastian Deffner

Scrambling, the delocalization of initially localized quantum information, is commonly characterized by the out-of-time ordered correlator (OTOC). Employing the OTOC-Renyi-2 entrop…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Fluctuation theorems for autonomous work

Christopher Jarzynski, Sebastian Deffner, Saar Rahav

Classical fluctuation theorems for work have been obtained theoretically, and verified experimentally, within a non-autonomous framework in which work is performed on a system of i…

cond-mat.stat-mech2013

Information driven current in a quantum Maxwell demon

Sebastian Deffner

We describe a minimal model of a quantum Maxwell demon obeying Hamiltonian dynamics. The model is solved exactly, and we analyze its steady-state behavior. We find that writing inf…

quant-ph2024

Simon's algorithm in the NISQ cloud

Reece Robertson, Emery Doucet, Ernest Spicer +1

Simon's algorithm was one of the first problems to demonstrate a genuine quantum advantage. The algorithm, however, assumes access to noise-free qubits. In our work we use Simon's…

quant-ph2019

Quantum Thermodynamics: An introduction to the thermodynamics of quantum information

Sebastian Deffner, Steve Campbell

This book provides an introduction to the emerging field of quantum thermodynamics, with particular focus on its relation to quantum information and its implications for quantum co…