Dr. Sebastian Deffner

About

I was previously a Research Associate in the group of Christopher Jarzynski at the University of Maryland, College Park (2011-2014), and a Director’s Funded Postdoctoral Fellow with Wojciech H. Zurek at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (2014-2016).

Research interests

As theoretical physicists, we employ tools from Statistical Physics, Open Quantum Dynamics, Quantum Information Theory, Quantum Optics, Quantum Field Theory, Condensed Matter Theory, and Optimal Control Theory to investigate the nonequilibrium properties of nanosystems operating far from thermal equilibrium.

Education

  • Other, PhysicsUniversity of Augsburg (2011)
    Nonequilibrium entropy production in open and closed quantum systems
  • MS, PhysicsUniversity of Augsburg (2008)
    Quantum work relations