The “Workshop on non-equilibrium quantum thermodynamics: Stochastic models and experimental platforms” is a two-day event that will take place on 12-13 June at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The event is part of a collaborative project between MIT and SISSA, together with CNR-INO and the University of Trieste, supported by the Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region and the MIT-MISTI program. Entitled "Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Dissipative Quantum Systems", the three-year project has focused on the use of recent advances in non-equilibrium thermodynamics to characterize the dynamical properties of dissipative quantum systems. It saw the participation of scientists at MIT and in the Trieste area and has been led by Paola Cappellaro (MIT, PI Cambridge, MA), Andrea Trombettoni (University of Trieste, PI Trieste), Stefano Gherardini (CNR-INO), Stefano Ruffo (SISSA).
The workshop, which comes at the end of the project, aims at “bringing together experts from both the theoretical and experimental sides to discuss promising directions for the field, including theoretical protocols to identify the probability profile of energy-change fluctuations along individual quantum trajectories and the challenges to probe non-equilibrium thermodynamics in a wide range of existing experimental platforms, such as spin defects, ions, superconducting circuits, levitated nanospheres, and more”.
SISSA professor Stefano Ruffo comments: “This event concludes a very successful collaboration between local institutions and MIT. I would like to mention that the project has already been refunded, for the third time. This achievement is of particular importance, given the selectivity of the selection to access the MIT-MISTI Collaboration Grants, where projects from all over the world compete. The prestigious setting of the MIT, which hosts the event, is a further recognition of the value of our work”.
It will be possible to follow the event online and the talks will be recorded; information about this issue will be given later. (Image from Unsplash)