Out-of-time-ordered correlation functions in open systems

Speaker: Jan Tuziemski, Stockholm University Abstract Recent theoretical and experimental studies have shown significance of quantum information scrambling for problems encountered in high-energy physics, quantum information, and condensed matter. Due to complexity of quantum many-body systems it is plausible that new developments in this field will be achieved by experimental explorations. Therefore, a better theoretical understanding […]

Speaker: Patryk Lipka-Bartosik, University of Bristol Abstract The standard benchmark for teleportation is the average fidelity of teleportation and according to this benchmark not all states are useful for teleportation. It was recently shown, however, that all entangled states lead to nonclassical teleportation, with there being no classical scheme able to reproduce the states teleported to […]

Speaker: Markus Frembs Abstract Contextuality is a key feature of quantum mechanics, as was first brought to light by Bohr and later realised more technically by Kochen and Specker. Isham and Butterfield put contextuality at the heart of their topos-based formalism and gave a reformulation of the Kochen-Specker theorem in the language of presheaves. Here, […]

Speaker: Felix Leditzky, IQC, University of Waterloo / Perimeter Institute Abstract Communication networks have multiple users, each sending and receiving messages. A multiple access channel (MAC) models multiple senders transmitting to a single receiver, such as the uplink from many mobile phones to a single base station. The optimal performance of a MAC is quantified by […]

Speaker: Felix Huber, ICFO (Castelldefels) Abstract The study of polynomials that are positive on certain sets has a rich history, going back to Hilbert's seventeenth problem. Here we will look at multivariate polynomials (and more generally, contractions) that have matrices as their variables. These are constructed such that they yield positive semi-definite expressions whenever they […]

Speaker: Katarzyna Roszak, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology Abstract The problem of detecting entanglement between a qubit and its environment is known to be complicated [1]. To simplify the issue, we study the class of Hamiltonians that describe the interacting system in such a way that the resulting evolution of the qubit alone is […]

Speaker: Marcin Karczewski ICTQT Abstract Two identical photons impinging on different arms of a balanced beam splitter always end up grouped together. In other words, the probability that they stay separate vanishes. Finding such forbidden outcomes is, in general, a demanding task when the number of particles and modes increases. The paper [Phys. Rev. Lett. […]

Speaker: Steven Bass, Jagiellonian University (Cracow) Abstract The cosmological constant in Einstein's equations of General Relativity is a prime candidate to describe the dark energy that drives the accelerating expansion of the Universe and which contributes 69% of its energy budget. The cosmological constant measures the energy density of the vacuum perceived by gravitation. Experimentally, it […]

Speaker: Antonio Mandarino ICTQT Abstract The aim of this journal club talk will be the discussion of a topic that is getting more attention in the quantum thermodynamics community. In fact, numerous efforts, both theoretically and experimentally, are devoted to design technologies able to control and to route the heat flow in qubit systems suitable […]

Speaker: Kamil Korzekwa, Jagiellonian University (Kraków) Abstract It is of foremost importance, both from the foundational and technological point of view, to understand what components of the quantum theory are responsible for quantum supremacy, i.e. the potential ability of quantum computers to solve problems that cannot be solved efficiently on classical machines. One of the most […]