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Group meetings 2025

2025 Schedule: Friday at 3 pm CPTG lounge

UofT students & pdocs: If you work in this area and would like to participate & contribute to our meetings, please contact me.

• Friday Jan. 10 3:00 pm Jonathan
• Monday Jan. 13 9:00 am David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky
  1. Violation of Detailed Balance in Quantum Open Systems
  2. Thermalization without detailed balance: population oscillations in the absence of coherences
• Tue Jan. 21 3pm Brett The Lewis-Riesenfeld invariant theory: Dynamics of a driven open double two-level system
• Wed Jan. 22 12 noon Maggie
  Resources in quantum algorithms and simulations: Efficiency optimization in quantum computing: balancing thermodynamics and computational performance
• Tue Jan. 28 3 pm Jakub A Finite-Time Quantum Otto Engine subject to Control Noise and Enhancement Techniques
• Tue Feb 04 3 pm Carlos Thermalization Induced by Quantum Scattering
• Wed Feb 05 12 noon Matt - Research progress
• Tue Feb 11 3 pm Zachary Anomalous Diffusion in the Long-Range Haken-Strobl-Reineker Model
• Monday Feb 24 11 am Joint meeting with Arun Paramekanti group SU(N) spin-phonon simulations of Floquet dynamics in spin S>1/2 Mott insulators
• Wed Feb 26 12 noon Alessandro: Practice for the Qualifier
• Tue March 04 3 pm
• Wed March 05 12 noon Resources in quantum algorithms and simulations: Dvira
  1. Non-Markovian electron transfer with the Repeated Interaction protocol
  2. Myths around quantum computation before full fault tolerance
  3. Example for error mitigation: Evidence for the utility of quantum computing before fault tolerance

• Tue March 11 3 pm Jitian (poster), Brett, Jonathan, Maggie, Jakub (APS presentations)
• Monday March 24 11 am Brett+Jakub joint group meeting with Paramekanti
• Tue March 25 3 pm Matthew G 1. Autonomous learning of generative models with chemical reaction network ensembles 2. Perspective
• Wed April 02 12 noon Resources in quantum algorithms and simulations: Carlos
  Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold
• Tue April 08 3pm Brett Disorder enhanced exciton transport enhanced by cavity QED
• Wed April 09 11:30 Resources in quantum algorithms and simulations Jakub
  Quantum simulation of boson-related Hamiltonians: techniques, effective Hamiltonian construction, and error analysis
• Tue April 15 3pm Jonathan
  1. Designing mechanosensitive molecules from molecular building blocks: A genetic algorithm-based approach
  2. Mechanoelectric sensitivity reveals destructive quantum interference in single-molecule junctions
• Mon. April 21 11am Jakub Practice
• Tue. April 22 3 pm Maggie Optimization of optomechanical cooling and entanglement using semi-analytic solutions to the Lindblad master equation
• Tue May 06 Tim (1) Quantum-Dynamical Semigroups and the Church of the Larger Hilbert Space (2) A quantum algorithm for evolving open quantum dynamics on quantum computing devices
• Wed May 07 12 noon Resources in quantum algorithms and simulations Alessandro Readout-Induced Suppression and Enhancement of Superconducting Qubit Lifetimes
• Tue June 10 1 pm Dvira 1. Diffusion with Stochastic Resetting
  2. Optimal Stochastic Restart Renders Fluctuations in First Passage Times Universal
  3. Restart Expedites Quantum Walk Hitting Times
  4. review: Stochastic resetting and applications
• Wed June 11, 1 pm Resources in quantum algorithms and simulations Xiang Zou Algebraic Topology Principles behind Topological Quantum Error Correction
• Tue June 17 1 pm Zachary Quantum thermodynamics of the spin-boson model using the principle of minimal dissipation
• Tue June 24 1pm Brett Rényi entropy dynamics and Lindblad spectrum for open quantum systems
• Wed July 02, 1 pm Resources in quantum algorithms and simulations Carlos
• Tue July 08, 1 pm Jakub Defining the Semiclassical Limit of the Quantum Rabi Hamiltonian
• Wed July 09, 11 am Resources in quantum algorithms and simulations Alessandro Quantum thermal state preparation for near-term quantum processors
• Tue July 15, 1 pm Jonathan Local heat current flow in ballistic phonon transport of graphene nanoribbons
• Tue July 22, 1 pm Maggie Environment-assisted quantum transport of excitons in perovskite nanocrystal superlattices
• Mon July 28, 9 am Roi Nevo
• Tue July 29, 12 noon Matthew
• Tue Aug 12, 12 noon Maggie practice talk; Alex
• Wed. Aug 20, 12 noon Alessandro 1. Universal cooling of quantum systems via randomized measurements 2. Heat as a Witness of Quantum Properties 3. Entanglement in a qubit-qubit-tardigrade system
• Thur Aug 28, 12 noon Roi + Pizza Lunch
• Mon. Sep 08, 11 am Tim A resource theoretical unification of Mpemba effects: classical and quantum
• Mon. Sep 15, 11 am Brett Quantum Mpemba Effect in Dissipative Spin Chains at Criticality
• Mon. Sep 22, 10 am Rui Guan 1. Anomalous flow in correlated quantum systems: No-go result and multiple-charge scenario 2. Global-local duality of energetic control cost in multipartite quantum correlated systems
• Mon. Sep 29, 11 am Yuxuan 1. Channeling Quantum Criticality 2. Approximate quantum error correcting codes from conformal field theory 3. Mixed-state phase transitions in spin-Holstein models
• Mon. Oct 06, 3pm Jakub
• Mon. Oct 20, 11 am Dvira
  1. Experiment: Phonon interference in single-molecule junctions
  2. Theory: Phonon interference effects in molecular junctions
  3. Theory: Tuning the thermal conductance of molecular junctions with interference effects
  4. Computational study: ules of Connectivity-Dependent Phonon Interference in Molecular Junctions
• Mon. Oct 27, 3 pm Zachary Tensor Network Simulation of Non-Markovian Dynamics in Organic Polaritons
• Mon. Nov 03, 11 am Jonathan: Research overview
• Tue. Nov. 11, 11:30 am Nick: Life in Scotiabank
• Mon. Nov 17, 11:20 am Maggie A Tensor Network Framework for Lindbladian Spectra and Steady States
• Mon. Nov 24, 11:20 am Prof. Barbara Amaral Contextuality in Anomalous Heat Flow
• Mon. Dec 08, 3 pm Nanako Shitara; Varaiational quantum noise spectroscopy
  
  
  

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