Zakaria Mzaouali
Dr. Zakaria Mzaouali
Quantum computing researcher studying how information, energy, and computation meet in quantum systems.
I am a researcher at the University of Tübingen and affiliated with Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH in Germany. My work combines analytical theory, numerical methods, and experiments on quantum hardware to understand what quantum devices compute, how reliably they do it, and what physical resources the computation consumes.
Research focus
From fundamental physics to testable quantum technologies
01
Quantum computing
Algorithms, encodings, and hardware-aware tests for quantum annealers and gate-based processors.
02
Quantum thermodynamics
Work, heat, irreversibility, and energy efficiency during real computational protocols.
03
Many-body physics
Equilibrium and dynamical critical phenomena, spin models, and non-equilibrium control.
04
Quantum information
Phase-space signatures, correlations, entanglement, and information transfer in interacting systems.
Selected work
Recent research
Quantum annealers as programmable thermal machines
An experimental and theoretical study of quantum annealers as thermodynamic processes, connecting programmable schedules with energy exchange and entropy production.
Quantum annealing Thermodynamics
Thermodynamic significance of QUBO encoding on quantum annealers
Penalty choices in a QUBO do more than change computational performance: they reshape the energy landscape and the measured thermodynamic cost.
New Journal of Physics QUBO
Quantum-inspired dynamical models on quantum and classical annealers
A common optimization formulation for testing quantum and classical annealers on models derived from real-time quantum dynamics.
Physical Review Applied Benchmarking
Updates
Recent milestones
Collaboration
Interested in quantum hardware, thermodynamics, or many-body physics?
I welcome conversations about research collaborations, seminars, and joint projects.