Kyoto Workshop on Quantum Thermodynamics and Stochastic Thermodynamics 2025

Session

Friday

12 Dec 2025, 09:30

Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University)

33. Quantum Kinetic Uncertainty Relations in Mesoscopic Conductors at Strong Coupling

Géraldine Haack (University of Geneva)

12/12/2025, 09:30

Invited Talk

Kinetic Uncertainty Relations (KURs) establish quantum transport precision limits by linking signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) to the system's dynamical activity, valid in the weak-coupling regime where particle-like transport dominates. At strong coupling, quantum coherence challenges the validity of KURs and questions the concept of activity itself.
In this work, we achieve two distinct, yet...

34. Thermodynamics of Precision in Open Quantum Systems

Prof. Tan Van Vu (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University)

12/12/2025, 10:20

Long Talk

In this talk, I will present recent progress on the thermodynamics of precision in open quantum systems, spanning both Markovian and non-Markovian regimes. For Markovian dynamics, quantum extensions of thermokinetic uncertainty relations reveal how coherence can relax classical bounds, allowing enhanced precision at reduced thermodynamic cost [1]. Going beyond the weak-coupling and memoryless...

35. Optimally Fast Qubit Reset

Yue Liu (Kyoto University)

12/12/2025, 11:10

Short Talk

In practice, qubit reset must be operated in an extremely short time, which incurs a thermodynamic cost within multiple orders of magnitude above the Landauer bound. We present a general framework to determine the minimal thermodynamic cost and the corresponding optimal protocol for memory erasure under arbitrary erasure speeds. Our study reveals the divergent behavior of minimal entropy...

36. Weak-Memory Dynamics in Discrete Time

Kay Brandner (University of Nottingham)

12/12/2025, 13:30

Invited Talk

Dynamical memory induced by hidden degrees of freedom is ubiquitous in small-scale systems. While current efforts to systematically characterize this phenomenon focus almost exclusively on continuous-time settings, discrete-time models are emerging as powerful tools to understand the dynamics of coarse-grained systems, and to derive their effective evolution equations from first principles. To...

37. Promoting Fluctuation Theorems into Covariant Forms

Jihui Pei (Peking University)

12/12/2025, 14:20

Short Talk

The principle of covariance, a cornerstone of modern physics, asserts the equivalence of all inertial frames of reference. Fluctuation theorems, as extensions of the second law of thermodynamics, establish universal connections between irreversibility and fluctuation in terms of stochastic thermodynamic quantities. However, these relations typically assume that both the thermodynamic system...

38. Thermodynamic Geometric Constraint on the Spectrum of Markov Rate Matrices

Guohua Xu (The University of Tokyo)

12/12/2025, 14:40

Short Talk

The spectrum of Markov generators encodes physical information beyond simple decay and oscillation, which reflects irreversibility and governs the structure of correlation functions. In this work, we prove an ellipse theorem that provides a universal thermodynamic geometric constraint on the spectrum of Markov rate matrices. The theorem states that all eigenvalues lie within a specific ellipse...