Energy and entropy in quantum computers: from fundamental to realistic & back again
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• Invited talk in Mini-colloque 11: Thermodynamique et énergétique quantique at Congrès Général de la Société Française de Physique (3 July 2025)
• Invited talk at International Conference on Quantum Energy 2025 (4 June 2025)
       - I only presented Part II of above pdf.
• Invited talk at Symposium Alain Aspect (19 Nov 2024)
      - I presented a very early version of Part II of above pdf.

No work from equilibrium fluctuations: revisiting Maxwell's demon with a quantum trapdoor
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Invited Talk - Workshop on Stochastic Thermodynamics 2025

> Watch a video of this seminar (28 min)

Introduction to the Quantum Energy Initiative (QEI)
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Online talk at PushQuantum's QEI Munich event (5 July 2024)

Can we tell how much power a quantum computer will consume?
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• Online Seminar for PhD students at CERN (11 May 2023)
• Online Seminar with Olivier Ezratty: IBM Germany "Quantum Interest Group" (7 Feb 2023)
• Seminar - Chalmers University of Technology (24 Jan 2023)
• Conference talk - Workshop on Responsible Quantum Technologies, Karlsruhe (6 Dec 2022)
• Conference talk - GDR Physique Quantique Mésoscopique, Aussois (30 Nov 2022)

Illusory cracks in the second law of thermodynamics in quantum nanoelectronics
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Talk - My habilitation defence (Nov 2022) Université Grenoble Alpes

A non-equilibrium system as a demon
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• Talk - Quantum ThermoDynamics Conference [QTD 2019] (Espoo, Finland, June 2019) slides here
• Seminar - Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) Singapore (Dec 2018)
• Invited talk - Mini-Workshop Open Questions on Energy Transport & Conversion in Nanoscale Quantum Systems (Marseille, Nov 2018)

Pedagogical Seminar : The laws of thermodynamics at the nanoscale
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Invited seminar - Les Houches Doctoral Summer School "Frontiers of Condensed Matter" (18-29 Sept 2017).
Co-organised by
      - Casimir Research School (Delft-Leiden)
      - Donostia International Physics Center (San Sebastian)
      - Ecole Doctorale de Physique de Grenoble

Non-markovian quantum thermodynamics: 1st law, 2nd law & fluctuation theorems
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> Watch a video of this seminar (32 min)

• Invited Talk - SPICE Workshop: Quantum Thermodynamics and Transport (Univ. Mainz, May 2018)
• Invited Talk - 2018 Joint Conference of the EPS and DPG Condensed Matter Divisions (TU Berlin, March 2018)
• Early version of talk at WE-Heraeus Seminar : Non-Markovianity and Strong Coupling Effects in Thermodynamics (Bad Honnef, Germany, April 2017)

Second law of thermodynamics for non-Markovian quantum machines
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• Invited talk - Conference on New Trends in Quantum Heat and Thermoelectrics (ICTP, Trieste, Aug 2016)
• Invited talk - Dynamic Days 2016 (Corfu, June 2016)

The best quantum thermoelectric at finite power output
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• Ben Gurion University - Physics colloquium (Oct 2015)
• Invited talk - Conference on Quantum Information & Quantum Control Toronto (Aug 2015)
• I.L.L. - Physics colloquium (Oct 2014)
• Invited talk - Workshop Quantum Thermoelectrics: Dynamics, Fluctuations and Non-linearities Aachen (Nov 2013)

Nonlinear Thermoelectricity: Cooling, Catastrophes and Carnot
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• Seminar: IFISC, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca (February 2013)

> Watch a video of this seminar (approx. 1 hour)

• Seminar: Institute for Theory of Statistical Physics, Aachen (April 2013)
• Mini-workshop of Mesoscopic Physics Group, Lund (January 2013)
• Conference: Réunion Plénière du GDR Physique Quantique Mesoscopique, Aussois (Oct 2012)

Universal statistics for boundary collisions of a random walk
    & implication for spin-polarized gases
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• Institut Laue Langevin - Theory Seminar (December 2011)
• Univ Genève - Atelier de physique theorique (January 2012)

Temperature can enhance coherent oscillations at a Landau-Zener transition
Poster - pdf format

• Rencontres de Moriond: Quantum Mesoscopic Physics, La Thuile (Mar 2011)
• Réunion Plénière du GDR Physique Quantique Mesoscopique, Aussois (Dec 2011)
• Conf. on Disordered Quantum Systems, Paris (June 2012)

Review talk : Quantum revivals - connections to bouncing neutrons
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Invited talk - GRANIT 2010 conference, Les Houches (February 2010)

Thermoelectricity in mesoscopic devices due to Aharonov-Bohm interference
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• Seminar: Théorie de la Matière Condensée sur le Plateau, Orsay (January 2010)
• Seminar IPCMS, Strasbourg (February 2010)
• Seminar CPT, Marseille (Feb 2010)
• Conference Transalp'Nano 2010, Como (June 2010)

Poor qubits make for rich physics: noise-induced Zeno effect & noise-induced Berry phases
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Invited talk - International Conference on Noise and Fluctuations, Pisa (June 2009)

Mirror-symmetries in quantum chaos
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• Invited talk -GDR Physique Quantique Mésoscopique - Aussois (December 2008)
• K. Richter's Group Seminar at University of Regensburg (January 2009)
• Condensed Matter Theory Seminar, Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste (March 2009)

Which theory for dissipation in quantum systems (such as qubits)?
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Institut Laue Langevin Theory Seminar, Grenoble (April 2008)

Introduction - Ehrenfest time in chaotic scattering
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Banff (BIRS) workshop "Quantum chaos: routes to RMT and beyond" (February 2008)

The rivalry between interference and tunnelling in chaotic quantum-dots
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Theory Seminar LPTMS Orsay (Dec 2007)

Towards a dephasing diode: asymmetric and geometric dephasing
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ICTP Conference "Quantum Phenomena in Confined Dimensions" (June 2007)

Noise of quantum chaotic systems in the classical limit
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Invited Talk SPIE Conference: Fluctuations and Noise (May 2007)

The battle between interference and tunnelling in chaotic quantum dots
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Conference "Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (CMMP)" (April 2007)

Geometric phases, adiabaticity and decoherence in qubits
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Grenoble mini-workshop: Cohérence et information quantique (June 2006)
and Seminar at Atominstitut, Vienna, (October 2006)

From RMT to classical in quantum chaotic transport
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MPI-PKS Dresden Conference "Quantum coherence and noise in nanostructures" (May 2006)

Understanding quantum transport through chaotic systems
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University of Geneva (April 2006)

Quantum to classical crossover in chaotic transport
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Institut Laue Langevin Theory Seminar, Grenoble (January 2005)

Non-orthogonal resonances, geometric phase and geometric dephasing
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ICTP Trieste "School and Workshop on Quantum Entanglement, Decoherence, Information, and Geometrical Phases in Complex Systems" (November 2004)

Berry phase in a non-isolated system and geometric dephasing
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EC "Spintronics" RTN Conference, Budapest (October 2004)

Quantum chaos : learning from network models
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Univ. Oxford, Summer (2002)