• Prof Vlatko Vedral (University of Oxford)
• Dr Derek Lee (Imperial College London)
• Prof Myungshik Kim (Imperial College London)

I am based in Vlatko Vedral's group at the University of Oxford researching quantum physics and statistical mechanics. I am particuarly interested in the emergence of thermodynamic behaviour from the underlying laws of quantum mechanics.

Previously, I have worked on quantum transport in disordered systems. In particular, the possibility of quantum effects playing a non-trivial role in biology.

Publications

• R.Dorner, J. Goold, L. Heaney, T. Farrow and V. Vedral, Effects of quantum coherence in metalloprotein electron transfer, Phys. Rev. E 86, 031922 (2012)
• R. Dorner, J. Goold and V. Vedral, Towards quantum simulations of biological information flow, Interface Focus 2, 522 (2012)

• R. Dorner, J. Goold, C. Cormick, M. Paternostro and V. Vedral, Emergent thermodynamics in a quenched quantum many-body system, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 160601 (2012)

• R. Dorner, J. Goold, C. Cormick, M. Paternostro and V. Vedral, Extracting Quantum Work Statistics and Fluctuation Theorems by Single-Qubit Interferometry, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 230601 (2013)

Posters

• Quantum effects in biology at the QuAMP Summer School, Imperial College London, UK, September 2010
• Quantum coherent electron transport in biomolecules at Quantum-Coherent Energy Transfer:implications for biology and new energy technologies, Kavli Royal Society International Centre, UK, April 2011
• Quantum transport in disordered systems at Charge Transfer in Biosystems, Universitätszentrum Obergurgl, Austria, July 2011
• Nonequilibrium fluctuations and quantum physics, Postgraduate Symposium, Imperial College London, UK, July 2012

Talks

• (Quantum) biological electron transport at the NITheP Research Workshop in Quantum Biology, National Institute for Theoretical Physics, South Africa, November 2011
• Quantum biology at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Queens University Belfast, UK, February 2012
• Tasaki-Crooks meets Jordan-Wigner at the Department of Physics, University College Cork, Ireland, August 2012
• Testing the quantum fluctuation theorems, Postgraduate Symposium, Imperial College London, UK, July 2013