Publications

Cavalcante, Moallison F., Marcus V. S. Bonança, Eduardo Miranda, and Sebastian Deffner. (2025) 2025. “Emergence of X States in a Quantum Impurity Model”. Physical Review Research 7. American Physical Society (APS). doi:10.1103/physrevresearch.7.l022027.

Pratapsi, Sagar Silva, Sebastian Deffner, and Stefano Gherardini. (2025) 2025. “Quantum Speed Limit for Kirkwood–Dirac Quasiprobabilities”. Quantum Science and Technology 10. IOP Publishing: 035019. doi:10.1088/2058-9565/add55d.

Sone, Akira, Akram Touil, Kenji Maeda, Paola Cappellaro, and Sebastian Deffner. (2025) 2025. “No-Go Theorem for Environment-Assisted Invariance in Non-Unitary Dynamics”. New Journal of Physics 27. IOP Publishing: 064509. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/ade46f.

Mueller, Niklas, Tianyi Wang, Or Katz, Zohreh Davoudi, and Marko Cetina. (2025) 2025. “Quantum Computing Universal Thermalization Dynamics in a (2 + 1)D Lattice Gauge Theory”. Nature Communications 16. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-60177-7.

Sriram, Samarth, Sashank Kaushik Sridhar, and Avik Dutt. (2025) 2025. “Quantized Topological Phases Beyond Square Lattices in Floquet Synthetic Dimensions [Invited]”. Optical Materials Express 15. Optica Publishing Group: 272. doi:10.1364/ome.546801.

Shen, Yichen, Ping-Yen Hsieh, Sashank Kaushik Sridhar, Samantha Feldman, You-Chia Chang, Thomas A. Smith, and Avik Dutt. (2025) 2025. “Strong Nanophotonic Quantum Squeezing Exceeding 3.5  dB in a Foundry-Compatible Kerr Microresonator”. Optica 12. Optica Publishing Group: 302. doi:10.1364/optica.542968.

Domino, Krzysztof, Emery Doucet, Reece Robertson, Bartłomiej Gardas, and Sebastian Deffner. (2025) 2025. “On the Baltimore Light RailLink into the Quantum Future”. Scientific Reports 15. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi:10.1038/s41598-025-15545-0.

Kang, Mingyu, Yikang Zhang, Kenneth R. Brown, and Thomas Barthel. 2025. “Non-Gaussian Phase Transition and Cascade of Instabilities in the Dissipative Quantum Rabi Model”. ArXiv:2507.07092. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2507.07092.

Davoudi, Zohreh, Chung-Chun Hsieh, and Saurabh V. Kadam. 2025. “Quantum Computation of Hadron Scattering in a Lattice Gauge Theory”. ArXiv:2505.20408. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2505.20408.

Stevens, Josey, and Sebastian Deffner. 2025. “Hamiltonian Quantum Gates — Energetic Advantage from Entangleability”. ArXiv:2507.01758. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2507.01758.

Behrendt, Gregory, and Sebastian Deffner. 2025. “Endoreversible Stirling Cycles: Plasma Engines at Maximal Power”. ArXiv:2506.16303. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2506.16303.

Deffner, Sebastian, and Steve Campbell. 2025. “Suppressing Excitations in the Nonlinear Landau-Zener Model”. ArXiv:2506.11759. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2506.11759.

Cavalcante, Moallison F., Bariş Çakmak, Marcus V. S. Bonança, and Sebastian Deffner. 2025. “Correcting Noisy Quantum Gates With Shortcuts to Adiabaticity”. ArXiv:2505.20000. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2505.20000.

Campbell, Steve, Irene D Amico, Mario A. Ciampini, Janet Anders, Natalia Ares, Simone Artini, Alexia Auffèves, et al. 2025. “Roadmap on Quantum Thermodynamics”. ArXiv:2504.20145. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2504.20145.

Robertson, Reece, Emery Doucet, Zakaria Mzaouali, Krzysztof Domino, Bartłomiej Gardas, and Sebastian Deffner. 2025. “Simon S Period Finding on a Quantum Annealer”. ArXiv:2504.10771. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2504.10771.

Sridhar, Sashank Kaushik, Rohith Srikanth, Alexander R. Miller, Ferguson J. McComb, and Avik Dutt. 2025. “Measuring $\mathbbZ_2$ Invariants in Dimer Models and Cross-Coupled Ladders With a Programmable Photonic Molecule”. ArXiv:2505.04151. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2505.04151.

Shen, Yichen, Ping-Yen Hsieh, Dhruv Srinivasan, Antoine Henry, Gregory Moille, Sashank Kaushik Sridhar, Alessandro Restelli, et al. 2025. “Highly Squeezed Nanophotonic Quantum Microcombs With Broadband Frequency Tunability”. ArXiv:2505.03734. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2505.03734.

Yu, Danying, Wange Song, Luojia Wang, Rohith Srikanth, Sashank Kaushik Sridhar, Tao Chen, Chenxi Huang, et al. 2025. “Comprehensive Review on Developments of Synthetic Dimensions”. Photonics Insights 4. Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics: R06. doi:10.3788/pi.2025.r06.

Jabeen, Shabnam, Dmytro Kurdydyk, Aadi Palnitkar, Mihir Talati, Jeffrey Yan, and Jinghong Yang. 2025. “Quantum State Reconstruction With Variational Quantum Circuit”. ArXiv:2507.01246. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2507.01246.

Guo, Ziqing, Alex Khan, Victor S. Sheng, Shabnam Jabeen, and Ziwen Pan. 2025. “Quantum Parallel Information Exchange (QPIE) Hybrid Network With Transfer Learning”. ArXiv:2504.04235. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2504.04235.

Guo, Ziqing, Ziwen Pan, Alex Khan, and Jan Balewski. 2025. “Vectorized Attention With Learnable Encoding for Quantum Transformer”. ArXiv:2508.18464. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2508.18464.

Lakhdar-Hamina, Djamil, Xingxin Liu, Richard Barney, Sarah H. Miller, Alaina M. Green, Norbert M. Linke, and Victor Galitski. 2025. “Benchmarking a Tunable Quantum Neural Network on Trapped-Ion and Superconducting Hardware”. ArXiv:2507.21222. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2507.21222.

Proctor, Timothy, Anh Tran, Xingxin Liu, Aditya Dhumuntarao, Stefan Seritan, Alaina Green, and Norbert M Linke. 2025. “Featuremetric Benchmarking: Quantum Computer Benchmarks Based on Circuit Features”. ArXiv:2504.12575. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2504.12575.

Śmierzchalski, Tomasz, Jakub Pawłowski, Artur Przybysz, Łukasz Pawela, Zbigniew Puchała, Mátyás Koniorczyk, Bartłomiej Gardas, Sebastian Deffner, and Krzysztof Domino. (2025) 2024. “Hybrid Quantum-Classical Computation for Automatic Guided Vehicles Scheduling”. Scientific Reports 14. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi:10.1038/s41598-024-72101-y.

Touil, Akram, Fabio Anza, Sebastian Deffner, and James P. Crutchfield. (2025) 2024. “Branching States As The Emergent Structure of a Quantum Universe”. Quantum 8. Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften: 1494. doi:10.22331/q-2024-10-10-1494.

Davoudi, Zohreh, Chung-Chun Hsieh, and Saurabh V. Kadam. (2025) 2024. “Scattering Wave Packets of Hadrons in Gauge Theories: Preparation on a Quantum Computer”. Quantum 8. Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften: 1520. doi:10.22331/q-2024-11-11-1520.

Touil, Akram, and Sebastian Deffner. (2025) 2024. “Information Scrambling —A Quantum Thermodynamic Perspective”. Europhysics Letters 146. IOP Publishing: 48001. doi:10.1209/0295-5075/ad4413.

Hawary, Khadija El, Mohamed Azzouz, Morad El Baz, Sebastian Deffner, Bartłomiej Gardas, and Zakaria Mzaouali. (2025) 2024. “Navigating the Phase Diagram of Quantum Many-Body Systems in Phase Space”. Physical Review E 110. American Physical Society (APS). doi:10.1103/physreve.110.014120.

Dong, Zhaohui, Xianfeng Chen, Avik Dutt, and Luqi Yuan. (2025) 2024. “Topological Dissipative Photonics and Topological Insulator Lasers in Synthetic Time‐Frequency Dimensions”. Laser &Amp; Photonics Reviews 18. Wiley. doi:10.1002/lpor.202300354.

Sridhar, Sashank Kaushik, Sayan Ghosh, Dhruv Srinivasan, Alexander R. Miller, and Avik Dutt. (2025) 2024. “Quantized Topological Pumping in Floquet Synthetic Dimensions With a Driven Dissipative Photonic Molecule”. Nature Physics 20. Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 843–851. doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02413-3.