Dvira Segal
Professor
Department of Chemistry
Department of Physics
University of Toronto
Distinguished Fellow, Faculty of Sciences at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2024- 2026)
Canada Research Chair in Theoretical Chemistry (2014-2024)
Director: Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control (2020-)
Member: Chemical Physics Theory Group
University of Toronto: Professor of Physics (2026-) University of Toronto: Professor of Chemistry (2007-)
Columbia University: Postdoctoral fellow (2006-2007)
Weizmann Institute of Science: Postdoctoral fellow (2004-2005)
Tel Aviv University: PhD in Chemistry (2004)
Tel Aviv University: BSc in Chemistry, minor in CS (1998)
Quantum Dynamics + Quantum Thermodynamics
- Quantum Dissipative Systems
- Quantum Information: Open Quantum Systems
- Nonequilibrium Dynamics
- Quantum Thermodynamics
- Stochastic Thermodynamics and noise processes
- Charge, Energy and Spin Transfer at the Nanoscale
Selected Publications:
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H. M. Friedman, B. K. Agarwalla, and D. Segal,
"Quantum energy exchange and refrigeration: A full-counting statistics approach"
New J. Phys. 20 083026 (2018)
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L. Simine and D. Segal,
"Path-integral simulations with fermionic and bosonic reservoirs: Transport and dissipation in molecular electronic junctions",
J. Chem. Phys. 138, 214111 (2013)
- D. Segal, A. J. Millis, D. R. Reichman, "Numerically exact path integral simulation of nonequilibrium quantum transport and dissipation", Phys. Rev. B 82, 205323 (2010), Editors' Suggestion
- B. K. Agarwalla and D. Segal, "Assessing the validity of the thermodynamic uncertainty relation in quantum systems", Phys. Rev. B 98, 155438 (2018)