Coherence-Enhanced Single-Qubit Thermometry out of Equilibrium

Prof. Dr. Yasser Omar received his degree in physics from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon, Portugal, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Oxford, UK. Currently, he serves as a Professor at IST and President of PQI—Portuguese Quantum Institute. His research focuses on quantum computation and quantum information theory. He is a Corresponding Member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences and Co-Founder of World Quantum Day.

Dr. Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro serves as an Invited Assistant Professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico and the Head of the Quantum Photonics Laboratory (QuLab) at Instituto de Telecomunicações, Lisbon, Portugal. He holds a PhD (2013–2017) from the University of Geneva, where he was a Postdoctoral Researcher from 2017 to 2019. He spent about two years as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. His research focuses on quantum physics, quantum information, and spin dynamics.

Dr. Stefano Gherardini received his M.Sc. in electrical and automation engineering and Ph.D. in information engineering, curriculum nonlinear dynamics, and complex systems from the University of Florence, Italy, in 2014 and 2018, respectively. His postdoc experience includes activities at the University of Florence, the European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS), the Italian National Institute of Optics (CNR-INO), and the Instituto Superior Técnico and Instituto de Telecomunicações in Lisbon, Portugal. Since December 2021, he has been a permanent researcher at CNR-INO, at Trieste Unit till January 2024, and now in Florence. He also holds the role of external collaborator at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA). His research interests are quantum thermodynamics, quantum statistical mechanics, large deviation theory, open quantum systems and decoherence, non-Markovianity, quantum sensing, and quantum Zeno phenomena. Currently, his research activity concerns the theoretical investigation of out-of-equilibrium dynamics and stochastic thermodynamics in the quantum regime, resorting to quantum fluctuations theorems.