Gonzalo Manzano
- IFISC (CSIC-UIB)
- Campus Universitat de les Illes Balears E-07122 Palma de Mallorca. Spain
- Office 201 parc bit
- +34 971 25 95 20
- Contact
- Supervisor: Alejandro Aguado , Apostolos Argyris , Federico Bellisardi , Pere Colet , Miguel C. Soriano , Sreetama Das , Juan De Gregorio , Charles Santana , Giovanni Donati , Gabor Drotos , Ernesto Estrada , Juan Fernández Gracia , Antonio Fernández Peralta , Eliana Fiorelli , Ingo Fischer , Tobias Galla , Gian Luca Giorgi , Damià Gomila , Juan Carlos Gonzalez-Avella , Catharina E. Graafland , Emilio Hernández-García , Ruben Herzog , Kun Woo Kim , Konstantin Klemm , Lucas Lacasa , Clara Lago , Eva Llabrés , Rosa Lopez , Cristóbal López , Leonardo Lyra Gollo , Gonzalo Manzano , Víctor M. Eguíluz , Manuel Matías , Carlos Melian , Sandro Meloni , Claudio Mirasso , Michael Moskalets , Pere Mujal , Adrian C. Murza , Silvia Ortín , Javier Osca , Paulo J. Paulino , Xavier Porte , Jose Javier Ramasco , Ricard Ravell , André Röhm , Daniel Ruiz-Reynés , Giulia Ruzzene , Sungguen Ryu , Maxi San Miguel , David Sánchez , Enrico Ser-Giacomi , Llorenç Serra , Nathan Silvano , Tomás Sintes , Andrea Tabi , Murielle Vanessa Tchakui , Luisa Toledo Tude , Raúl Toral , Mihir Umarani , Juan D. Vasquez , Federico Vazquez , Fatima Velasquez Rojas , Kaichao Wu , Roberta Zambrini , Massimiliano Zanin
Profile
Short Bio and Interests:
I am Ramón y Cajal tenure-track researcher at IFISC since January 2023. Previously, I was Juan de la Cierva Incorporacion fellow (2021-2023). Before coming back to Spain, I was ESQ Postdoc at IQOQI Vienna (2020-2021) and Postdoc at ICTP Trieste (2018-2020) funded by Scuola Normale Superiore. I obtained my PhD in Physics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid in July 2017, followed by a short Postdoc at IFISC (2017-2018).
My research interests cover different topics related to quantum and stochastic thermodynamics, open quantum systems, information theory, as well as the foundations of nonequilibrium statistical physics and quantum mechanics. I am particularly interested in new ideas for the application of concepts in nonequilibrium thermodynamics to describe and understand classical and quantum complex systems. My research has been mostly developed on the theoretical side, but I am open to collaborations with experimentalists.
Part of my research have been covered in popular science journals and local media such as Physics, Quanta Magazine, or Diario de Mallorca. I also collaborated with local artist Evarist Torres merging art and science, and wrote a popular science article for Investigación y Ciencia,
Recent key publications:
+ Thermodynamics of computations with absolute irreversibility, unidirectional transitions, and stochastic computation times. G. Manzano, G. Kardeç, É. Roldán, and D. Wolpert, Phys. Rev. X 14, 021026 (2024).
+ Quantum thermodynamics under continuous monitoring: A general framework. G. Manzano and R. Zambrini, AVS Quantum Science, 4 025302 (2022).
+ Non-Abelian Quantum Transport and Thermosqueezing Effects, G. Manzano, J. M. R. Parrondo, and G. T. Landi, PRX Quantum 3, 010304 (2022).
Research profile in arXiv and Google Scholar.
Recent Publications
Universal Statistics of Charges Exchanges in Non-Abelian Quantum Transport
Scandi, Matteo; Manzano, GonzaloSubmitted (2025)
Gambling Carnot Engine
Tohme, Tarek; Bedoya, Valentina; di Bello, Costantino; Bresque, Léa; Manzano, Gonzalo; Roldán, ÉdgarPhysical Review Letters 135, 06710 (2025)
Coarse-Grained Quantum Thermodynamics: Observation-Dependent Quantities, Observation-Independent Laws
Rubino, Giulia; Brukner, Časlav; Manzano, GonzaloSubmitted (2025)
Quantum Time Crystal Clock and its Performance
Viotti, Ludmila; Huber, Marcus; Fazio, Rosario; Manzano, GonzaloSubmitted (2025)
Thermodynamic inference in molecular motors: a Martingale approach
Nadal-Rosa,Adrián and Manzano, GonzaloSubmitted (2025)
Ongoing Research projects
MdM-IFISC-2
Maria de Maeztu 2023-2026
P.I.: Ernesto Estrada, Ingo Fischer, Emilio Hernández-García, Rosa Lopez, Claudio Mirasso, Jose Javier Ramasco, Raúl Toral, Roberta Zambrini
After 15 years of its existence, IFISC can point to a proven track record of impactful research. The previous 2018-2022 MdM award has significantly enhanced the institute's capabilities, as demonstrated by an …
CoQuSy
Complex Quantum Systems: machine learning, thermodynamics, and emergent phenomena
P.I.: Gian Luca Giorgi, Gonzalo Manzano, Roberta Zambrini
CoQuSy is a coordinated project and joins all the researchers at IFISC (belonging either to CSIC or UIB) working in the common line of complex quantum systems. The coordination is motivated by …
CoQuaDis
Collective quantum phenomena in dissipative systems – towards time-crystal applications in sensing and metrology
P.I.: Roberta Zambrini
This project seeks to identify and realize quantum resources yielding a possible quantum advantage by exploiting collective phenomena in open systems. The benefit of this approach is that it does not rely …
QTD-InFlexity
Quantum thermodynamics: information, fluctuations and complexity
P.I.: Gonzalo Manzano
In the last two decades, thermodynamics has been extended to describe small systems, where the action of environmental noise “blurs” traditional thermodynamic constraints and information plays a central role. While the first …