13th Quantum Thermodynamics conference held in Singapore
CQT was a supporting institution for the international conference which saw some 150 participants attend
Participants at QTD2025. The conference featured over 40 scientific talks and 60 poster presentations.
From 7 to 11 July, researchers from around the world convened in sunny Singapore to discuss thermal processes at the quantum scale. The 13th edition of the annual quantum thermodynamics (QTD) conference was held for the first time in Asia on the campus of the National University of Singapore (NUS), drawing some 150 researchers from 17 countries.
CQT is proud to be a supporting institution for the conference together with NUS, the French-Singaporean International Research Laboratory MajuLab, the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). The sponsors of QTD 2025 were quantum computing startup Horizon Quantum, scientific publisher World Scientific and the American Physical Society journal PRX Quantum.
“I am very grateful to all the participants for travelling here and share their exciting results, and very grateful to the sponsors who allowed us to subsidise the costs for many participants,” said CQT Principal Investigator Dario Poletti, who chaired the local organising committee. Dario also has a co-appointment at SUTD as Associate Professor and Head of Cluster, Science, Mathematics and Technology. The local organising committee was supported by the Centre’s admin staff.
The conference programme featured 10 invited talks, over 30 short talks and two poster sessions with over 60 poster presentations. Topics discussed included the limits to the precision of clocks imposed by thermodynamics, measurements as a thermodynamic resource, and the quantum thermodynamics of many-body systems.
Talk and poster abstracts can be found online at the conference website.
The attendees also had a chance to go on lab tours. CQT Principal Investigators Manas Mukherjee and David Wilkowski hosted some of the participants in their respective labs while other participants visited the National Quantum Computing Hub. Some participants toured Singapore’s nature attractions instead, visiting the Botanic Gardens and the Gardens by the Bay.
A satellite event, the Foundations of Thermodynamics Workshop, was held from 16 to 18 July at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
