Preprints

Complete list of preprints on arXiv

2026


  • Ideal heat engine cycles at maximal efficiency — the ideal gas and beyond
    Gregory Behrendt and Sebastian Deffner
    arXiv:2608.11966
  • Quantum annealers as programmable thermal machines
    Jakub Pawlowski, Tomasz Smierzchalski, Fengping Jin, Bartlomiej Gardas, Sebastian Deffner, and Zakaria Mzaouali
    arXiv:2608.04564
  • Procrustes Tomography – reconstructing noisy quantum channels made easy
    Josey Stevens, Reece Robertson, and Sebastian Deffner
    arXiv:2607.07988
  • Energy-error tradeoff in encoding quantum error correction
    Josey Stevens and Sebastian Deffner
    arXiv:2605.04329
  • Quantum speed limit for measurement probabilities
    Agung Budiyono and Sebastian Deffner
    arXiv:2604.23160
  • Quantum timekeeping and the dynamics of scrambling in critical systems
    Devjyoti Tripathy, Federico Centrone, and Sebastian Deffner
    arXiv:2603.13016

2017


  • Quantum speed limits and the maximal rate of quantum learning
    Thiago V. Acconcia and Sebastian Deffner
    arXiv:1706.03826

2012


  • Information free energy for nonequilibrium states
    Sebastian Deffner and Eric Lutz
    arXiv:1201.3888