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  1. Towards enhanced precision in thermometry with nonlinear qubits

    Article • Quantum Science and Technology, January 2025, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  2. Thermodynamic Perspective on Quantum Fluctuations

    Article • January 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  3. Classifying Two-Body Hamiltonians for Quantum Darwinism

    Article • Physical Review X, December 2024, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  4. Branching States as The Emergent Structure of a Quantum Universe

    Article • Quantum, October 2024, Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  5. Hybrid quantum-classical computation for automatic guided vehicles scheduling

    Article • Scientific Reports, September 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  6. Nanowelding of quantum spin- 12 chains at minimal dissipation

    Article • Physical Review B, August 2024, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  7. Conditional quantum thermometry—enhancing precision by measuring less

    Article • Quantum Science and Technology, August 2024, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  8. Operator growth and spread complexity in open quantum systems

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), August 2024, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  9. Navigating the phase diagram of quantum many-body systems in phase space

    Article • Physical Review E, July 2024, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  10. Energetic Cost for Speedy Synchronization in Non-Hermitian Quantum Dynamics

    Article • Physical Review Letters, July 2024, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  11. Information scrambling —A quantum thermodynamic perspective

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), May 2024, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  12. Quantum information scrambling in two-dimensional Bose–Hubbard lattices

    Article • Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, April 2024, American Institute of Physics

    Akira Sone, Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  13. Pointer States and Quantum Darwinism with Two-Body Interactions

    Article • Entropy, November 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  14. Detailed fluctuation theorem from the one-time measurement scheme

    Article • Physical Review A, November 2023, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  15. Editorial: Dissertation Award in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics of APS for Dr. Adrian van Kan

    Article • Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, November 2023, American Institute of Physics

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  16. Second law of thermodynamics for heat exchanged between quantum systems

    Article • AVS Quantum Science, July 2023, American Vacuum Society

    Akira Sone, Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  17. Thermodynamics of Quantum Information in Noisy Polarizers

    Article • PRX Quantum, June 2023, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  18. Quantum Annealing in the NISQ Era: Railway Conflict Management

    Article • Entropy, January 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  19. Boosting thermodynamic performance by bending space-time

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), January 2023, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  20. Nonlinear speed-ups in ultracold quantum gases

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), November 2022, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  21. Shortcuts to Thermodynamic Quasistaticity

    Article • Physical Review Letters, October 2022, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  22. Optimal finite-time processes in weakly driven overdamped Brownian motion

    Article • Journal of Physics Communications, August 2022, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  23. Redundantly Amplified Information Suppresses Quantum Correlations in Many-Body Systems

    Article • Physical Review Letters, June 2022, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  24. Quantum thermodynamic devices: From theoretical proposals to experimental reality

    Article • AVS Quantum Science, June 2022, American Vacuum Society

    Obinna Abah, Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  25. Shortcuts in Stochastic Systems and Control of Biophysical Processes

    Article • Physical Review X, May 2022, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  26. Assessing the performance of quantum annealing with nonlinear driving

    Article • May 2022, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  27. Kibble–Zurek Scaling from Linear Response Theory

    Article • Entropy, May 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  28. From quantum speed limits to energy-efficient quantum gates

    Article • New Journal of Physics, May 2022, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  29. Three phases of quantum annealing: Fast, slow, and very slow

    Article • April 2022, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  30. Boosting engine performance with Bose–Einstein condensation

    Article • New Journal of Physics, February 2022, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  31. Fluctuation theorem for irreversible entropy production in electrical conduction

    Article • January 2022, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  32. Eavesdropping on the Decohering Environment: Quantum Darwinism, Amplification, and the Origin of Objective Classical Reality

    Article • Physical Review Letters, January 2022, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  33. Ergotropy from quantum and classical correlations

    Article • Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical, December 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  34. Diverging Quantum Speed Limits: A Herald of Classicality

    Article • PRX Quantum, December 2021, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  35. Environment-Assisted Shortcuts to Adiabaticity

    Article • Entropy, November 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  36. Thermodynamics of Statistical Anyons

    Article • PRX Quantum, October 2021, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  37. Quantum Otto engines at relativistic energies

    Article • New Journal of Physics, October 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  38. Quantum and Classical Ergotropy from Relative Entropies

    Article • Entropy, August 2021, MDPI AG

    Akira Sone, Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  39. Quantum Euler Relation for Local Measurements

    Article • Entropy, July 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  40. Shortcuts in stochastic systems and control of biophysical processes

    Article • June 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  41. Quantum speed-limited depletion of physical resources

    Article • June 2021, Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  42. Quantum Heat Engines with Singular Interactions

    Article • Symmetry, May 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  43. Energetic cost of Hamiltonian quantum gates

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), May 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  44. Jarzynski Equality for Conditional Stochastic Work

    Article • Journal of Statistical Physics, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Akira Sone, Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  45. Information Scrambling versus Decoherence—Two Competing Sinks for Entropy

    Article • PRX Quantum, January 2021, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  46. Negative entropy production rates in Drude-Sommerfeld metals

    Article • January 2021, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  47. Time-Rescaling of Dirac Dynamics: Shortcuts to Adiabaticity in Ion Traps and Weyl Semimetals

    Article • Entropy, January 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  48. Controlling the speed and trajectory of evolution with counterdiabatic driving

    Article • Nature Nanotechnology, August 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  49. Thermodynamic control —An old paradigm with new applications

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), August 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  50. Kibble-Zurek scaling in quantum speed limits for shortcuts to adiabaticity

    Article • Physical Review Research, July 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  51. Stochastic thermodynamics of relativistic Brownian motion

    Article • New Journal of Physics, July 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  52. Endoreversible Otto Engines at Maximal Power

    Article • Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics, May 2020, De Gruyter

    Akira Sone, Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  53. Quantum scrambling and the growth of mutual information

    Article • Quantum Science and Technology, May 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  54. Orthogonality Catastrophe as a Consequence of the Quantum Speed Limit

    Article • Physical Review Letters, March 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  55. Quantum speed limits and the maximal rate of information production

    Article • Physical Review Research, February 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  56. Bosons outperform fermions: The thermodynamic advantage of symmetry

    Article • January 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  57. Controlling the speed and trajectory of evolution with counterdiabatic driving

    Article • December 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  58. Disorder-assisted graph coloring on quantum annealers

    Article • December 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  59. Equilibration in Quantum Systems

    Article • Physics, November 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  60. Quantum refrigerators – the quantum thermodynamics of cooling Bose gases

    Article • August 2019, Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  61. Quantum Thermodynamics

    Article • July 2019, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  62. The principles of modern thermodynamics

    Article • July 2019, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  63. Thermodynamics of quantum information

    Article • July 2019, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  64. Thermodynamics of quantum systems

    Article • July 2019, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  65. Non-Thermal Quantum Engine in Transmon Qubits

    Article • Entropy, May 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  66. Quantum to classical transition in an information ratchet

    Article • April 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  67. Quantum fluctuation theorem for error diagnostics in quantum annealers

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  68. Efficiency of Harmonic Quantum Otto Engines at Maximal Power

    Article • Entropy, November 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  69. Minimal dissipation in processes far from equilibrium

    Article • October 2018, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  70. Quantum Zeno effect in correlated qubits

    Article • September 2018, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  71. Jarzynski Equality for Driven Quantum Field Theories

    Article • Physical Review X, February 2018, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  72. Precision thermometry and the quantum speed limit

    Article • Quantum Science and Technology, February 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  73. Single Atom Heat Engine in a Tapered Ion Trap

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Obinna Abah, Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  74. Kibble-Zurek scaling of the irreversible entropy production

    Article • November 2017, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  75. Demonstration of entanglement assisted invariance on IBM's quantum experience

    Article • Heliyon, November 2017, Elsevier

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  76. Geometric quantum speed limits: a case for Wigner phase space

    Article • New Journal of Physics, October 2017, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  77. Quantum speed limits: from Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle to optimal quantum control

    Article • Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical, October 2017, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  78. Fast forward to the classical adiabatic invariant

    Article • March 2017, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  79. Trade-Off Between Speed and Cost in Shortcuts to Adiabaticity

    Article • Physical Review Letters, March 2017, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  80. PT-symmetric slowing down of decoherence

    Article • October 2016, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  81. Repeatability of measurements: Non-Hermitian observables and quantum Coriolis force

    Article • August 2016, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  82. Quantum work and the thermodynamic cost of quantum measurements

    Article • July 2016, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  83. Foundations of statistical mechanics from symmetries of entanglement

    Article • New Journal of Physics, June 2016, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  84. Non-hermitian quantum thermodynamics

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  85. Quantum stochastic thermodynamic on harmonic networks

    Article • New Journal of Physics, January 2016, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  86. Exorcizing Maxwell’s Demon

    Article • Physics, December 2015, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  87. Shortcuts to adiabaticity: suppression of pair production in driven Dirac dynamics

    Article • New Journal of Physics, December 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  88. Shortcuts to adiabaticity from linear response theory

    Article • Physical Review E, October 2015, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  89. Thermodynamic universality of quantum Carnot engines

    Article • Physical Review E, October 2015, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  90. Quantum work statistics of charged Dirac particles in time-dependent fields

    Article • Physical Review E, September 2015, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  91. Environment-Assisted Speed-up of the Field Evolution in Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

    Article • Physical Review Letters, June 2015, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  92. From spooky foundations

    Article • Nature Nanotechnology, April 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  93. Jarzynski Equality inPT-Symmetric Quantum Mechanics

    Article • Physical Review Letters, April 2015, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  94. Quantum work distribution for a driven diatomic molecule

    Article • Chemical Physics, January 2015, Elsevier

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  95. Interference of identical particles and the quantum work distribution

    Article • Physical Review E, December 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  96. Optimal control of a qubit in an optical cavity

    Article • Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics, July 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  97. Optimal driving of isothermal processes close to equilibrium

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, June 2014, American Institute of Physics

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  98. Classical and Quantum Shortcuts to Adiabaticity for Scale-Invariant Driving

    Article • Physical Review X, April 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  99. Information-driven current in a quantum Maxwell demon

    Article • Physical Review E, December 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  100. Information Processing and the Second Law of Thermodynamics: An Inclusive, Hamiltonian Approach

    Article • Physical Review X, October 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  101. Quantum entropy production in phase space

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), August 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  102. Energy–time uncertainty relation for driven quantum systems

    Article • Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical, July 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  103. Quantum Speed Limit for Non-Markovian Dynamics

    Article • Physical Review Letters, July 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  104. Thermodynamic length for far-from-equilibrium quantum systems

    Article • Physical Review E, February 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  105. Single-Ion Heat Engine at Maximum Power

    Article • Physical Review Letters, November 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  106. Holevo's bound from a general quantum fluctuation theorem

    Article • Physical Review A, October 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  107. Nonequilibrium Entropy Production for Open Quantum Systems

    Article • Physical Review Letters, September 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  108. Quantum fluctuation theorems in the strong damping limit

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), April 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  109. Generalized Clausius Inequality for Nonequilibrium Quantum Processes

    Article • Physical Review Letters, October 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  110. Quantum work statistics of linear and nonlinear parametric oscillators

    Article • Chemical Physics, October 2010, Elsevier

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  111. Employing Trapped Cold Ions to Verify the Quantum Jarzynski Equality

    Article • Physical Review Letters, August 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner

  112. Nonequilibrium work distribution of a quantum harmonic oscillator

    Article • Physical Review E, February 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Sebastian Deffner