The Quantum Energy Team
Leaders, PhD and post-docs and alumnisAlexia Auffèves and Rob Whitney lead the Quantum Energy Team, a non-local theoretical research group based at MajuLab (Singapore) and LPMMC (Grenoble, France). Our areas of expertise are quantum thermodynamics, quantum optics, quantum transport, quantum foundations and quantum technologies. In close collaboration with top level experimental groups worldwide, we explore the laws governing the flows of energy, entropy and information in the quantum realm for fundamental purposes and practical applications.
Alexia Auffèves
Alexia is a research director at CNRS and heads the International Research Lab MajuLab in Singapore. After an experimental PhD under the supervision of Serge Haroche, she takes a position at CNRS in 2005 where she develops a research line devoted to the theory of quantum optics and quantum thermodynamics, in strong interaction with experimentalists. She promotes the physics-philosophy interface within the Grenoble quantum ecosystem, that she coordinates and leads between 2017 and 2022. In 2022, she launches the Quantum Energy Initiative (QEI), an interdisciplinary and international community to understand the energetic footprint of quantum technologies, along with Robert Whitney, Olivier Ezratty and Janine Splettstoesser.
Research topics: Quantum optics, Quantum technologies, Quantum information, Quantum thermodynamics, Quantum foundations.
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Robert S Whitney
Rob is a Researcher at the Laboratoire de Physique et Modélisation des Milieux Condensés (LPMMC) of the Université Grenoble Alpes and CNRS.
He is a physicist specializing in dissipation in quantum physics, and quantum thermodynamic questions involving nanoscale electronic circuits. He has been working on quantum computing energetics since 2019.
Research topics: Dissipation and irreversibility in quantum systems, Quantum thermodynamics, Quantum computing, Thermoelectricity in nanostructures.
Rob is a co-Founder of the Quantum Energy initiative, an international and interdisciplinary community to understand the physical resource cost of emerging quantum technologies, launched in August 2022.
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Postdocs
PhDs
Alumnis
Thomas Grange
Post-Doc (2013-2017)
Gaston Hornecker
PhD (2012-2015)
Etienne Jussiau
Post-Doc (2022 - 2023)
Stefano Portolan
Post-Doc (2009-2012)
Giovanni Vacanti
Post-Doc (xxxx-xxxx)
