Talks and Posters

Invited, Workshop, and Conference Talks

Open Quantum Systems and Shortcuts to Adiabaticity

• "Foundations of the Lindbladian Approach to Adiabatic and Reversible Computing". Invited talk at the Computing Community Consortium's Visioning Workshop on Physics & Engineering Issues in Adiabatic/Reversible Classical Computing, Oct. 2020. Video available.

• "Fundamental Thermodynamic Limits of Classical Reversible Computing via Open Quantum Systems". Invited talk at the Computing Community Consortium's Visioning Workshop on Physics & Engineering Issues in Adiabatic/Reversible Classical Computing, Oct. 2020.

  • Karpur Shukla, Victor V. Albert, Michael P. Frank, and Jimmy Xu

• "Approaches to Adiabatic and Reversible Computing from Nonequilibrium Quantum Thermodynamics". Invited talk at the Computing Community Consortium's Visioning Workshop on Physics & Engineering Issues in Adiabatic/Reversible Classical Computing, Oct. 2020.

• "Nonequilibrium Dynamics and Superadiabatic Fluxon Motion for Reversible Computing". Invited talk at the Center for Computing Research at Sandia National Laboratories, Feb. 2020.

• "Pathfinding Reversible Quantum Computation". Invited talk, NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute on the Identification and Control of Fundamental Properties of Quantum Systems, Jan. 2020.

  • Karpur Shukla and Michael P. Frank

Reversible Computing from Superconducting Elements

• "Asynchronous Ballistic Reversible Computing Using Superconducting Elements". Talk for the ACS BAA Portfolio Review, Apr. 2020.

  • Michael P. Frank, Rupert M. Lewis, Nancy Missert, and Karpur Shukla

• "Implementing the Asynchronous Reversible Computing Paradigm in Josephson Junction Circuits". Submitted talk, 21st Biennial U.S. Workshop on Superconductor Electronics, Devices, Circuits, and Systems, Oct. 2019.

  • Michael P. Frank, Rupert M. Lewis, and Karpur Shukla

Topological Quantum Computation and Holographic Entropies

• "Review of Holographic Second Laws for Conformal Field Theories Out of Equilibrium". Submitted talk, II Workshop on Quantum Information and Thermodynamics, Mar. 2019. Video available.

• "Nonequilibrium Disorder Operators and Topological Quantum Computation". Invited talk, Thermodynamics and Computation: Towards a New Synthesis, Aug. 2017.

• "Physical Aspects of Topological Quantum Computation". Invited talk at the Center for Computing Research at Sandia National Laboratories, Aug. 2017.

Quantum Capacitance from Fermi Liquid and Beyond-Fermi-Liquid Theory

• "Interplay of Negative Quantum and Ferroelectric Capacitances for Low-Power Transistor Operations". Submitted talk, 2021 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting.

  • Karpur Shukla, Mark Yu, and Jimmy Xu

Posters

• "Thermodynamic Dissipation Bounds on Classical and Quantum Reversible Information Processing", Feb. 2020. Submitted poster, 22nd Southwest Quantum Information and Technology Conference.

  • Karpur Shukla and Michael P. Frank

• "Information Flows in Reversible Computing Out of Equilibrium, with Applications to Models of Topological Quantum Computing", Feb. 2019. Submitted poster, 21st Southwest Quantum Information and Technology Conference.

  • Karpur Shukla and Michael P. Frank