Sebastian DeffnerDirector's Funded Postdoctoral Fellow
T4/CNLS Quantum Thermodynamics 
Office: TA-3, Bldg 123, Room 120
Mail Stop: B123
Phone: (505) 667 1631
Fax: (505) 665-2659 sdeffner@lanl.gov
home page Research highlight- Classical and quantum shortcuts to adiabaticity for scale-invariant driving
Sebastian Deffner, Christopher Jarzynski, and Adolfo del Campo
Physcial Review X 4 021013 (2014)
- Information processing and the second law of thermodynamics: an inclusive, Hamiltonian approach
Sebastian Deffner and Christopher Jarzynski
Physical Review X 3 041003 (2013)
|  | Educational Background/Employment:- Diplom-Physiker (Master of Science, Physics): University of Augsburg, Germany (2008)
- Doctor rerum naturalium (Doctor of Science, Physics): University of Augsburg, Germany (2011)
- Employment:
- 08/2008-08/2011: Research Fellow, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
- 09/2011-07/2014: Research Associate, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
- 08/2014-present: Director's Funded Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico
Research Interests: My research concerns topics of Quantum Thermodynamics. As a theoretical physicist, I employ tools from Statistical Physics, Open Quantum Dynamics, Quantum Information Theory, Quantum Optics, Condensed Matter Theory and Optimal Control Theory to investigate the nonequilibrium properties of nanosystems operating far from thermal equilibrium. Selected Recent Publications: - A list of publications can be found here
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