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When considering devices operating at a scale where quantum mechanical laws become important we may ask whether the solid grounds of thermodynamics might be challenged, not only by the lack of a thermodynamic limit, but also by the intrinsic uncertainty synonymous with this domain. It comes as no surprise that there has been a recent concerted effort to understand how the laws of thermodynamics generalise to arbitrary quantum systems both at and away from equilibrium. This effort is known as quantum thermodynamics and its development and application particularly to quantum many-body physics is the main focus of this group.

More recently we have become increasingly interested in the field of quantum simulation and are running several projects using quantum computers for simulating non-equilibrium physics.