Applications of single photon technologies

Speaker: Piotr Kolenderski, Single Photon Applications Laboratory   Abstract Quantum communication offers a selection of methods for absolutely secure exchange of information. There are two particular links which are used in practice: fibers and free space. The latter implemented using satellites is more challenging, but offers substantially longer ranges.During my talk I will present two projects running […]

Speaker: Robert Pisarczyk, University of Oxford   Abstract The capacity of a channel is known to be equivalent to the highest rate at which it can generate entanglement. Analogous to entanglement, the notion of a causality measure characterizes the temporal aspect of quantum correlations. Despite holding an equally fundamental role in physics, temporal quantum correlations have yet […]

Speaker: Tanmoy Biswas ICTQT Abstract Abstract of the paper: The information-carrying capacity of a memory is known to be a thermodynamic resource facilitating the conversion of heat to work. Szilard's engine explicates this connection through a toy example involving an energy-degenerate two-state memory. We devise a formalism to quantify the thermodynamic value of memory in general […]

Speaker: Fattah Sakuldee, ICTQT Abstract We study the classicality of a finite quantum system, called environment, defined by commutativity of the associate operator algebra, given sequential measurements on the environment. We demonstrate by constructing a scheme of probing from the pure-dephasing-type interaction with a qudit and preparation-evolution-measurement protocol thereon, the weak measurement sequence on the studied […]

Speaker: Stefano Cusumano, NEST, Scuola Normale Superiore and Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR (Pisa) Abstract As I will shortly move to ICTQT, in this talk I will try to give an overview of my work during the PhD. During this period I worked mainly on open quantum systems, applying collisional models to study both cascade systems (i.e. systems […]

Speaker: Prof. dr hab. Piotr Kwiek, UG Abstract W roku 1984 Leroy i Blomme opracowali podstawy teoretyczne dyfrakcji dwóch spójnych wiązek światła na fali ultradźwiękowej padających na nią pod dodatnim i ujemnym kątem Bragga. W roku 2019 teoria Leroya i Blommego została potwierdzona eksperymentalnie. Dokonano tego korzystając z interferometru Macha-Zehndera, w którym zwierciadło wyjściowe interferometru […]

Speaker: Máté Farkas Abstract We show that the class MIP* of languages that can be decided by a classical verifier interacting with multiple all-powerful quantum provers sharing entanglement is equal to the class RE of recursively enumerable languages. Our proof builds upon the quantum low-degree test of (Natarajan and Vidick, FOCS 2018) by integrating recent […]

Speaker: Sébastien Designolle, University of Geneva Abstract Symmetries are a key concept to connect mathematical elegance with physical insight. We consider measurement assemblages in quantum mechanics and show how their symmetry can be described by means of the so-called discrete bundles. It turns out that that many measurement assemblages used in quantum information theory as well […]

Speaker: Karol Życzkowski, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Center for Theoretical Physics, Warsaw, KCIK, Sopot    Abstract A brief introduction to entanglement of multipartite pure quantum states will be given. As the Bell states are known to be maximally entangled among all two-qubit quantum states, a natural question arises: What is the most entangled state for the quantum […]

Speaker: Robert Alicki, International Centre for Theory of Quantum Technologies (ICTQT), UG Abstract Przedstawione będą argumenty sugerujące, że początek ewolucji biologicznej wymagał powstania prymitywnych silników chemicznych wytwarzających pracę w postaci mechanicznych oscylacji. Zasada działania takich silników byłaby podobna do funkcjonowania akumulatorów, baterii, a także ogniw paliwowych, fotowoltaicznych i termoelektrycznych. Zgodnie z rozwijaną przez autora i współpracowników […]