Work extraction from unknown quantum sources

Speaker: Dominik Šafránek (Institute for Basic Science, South Korea) Abstract I will introduce a protocol which allows to unitarily extract work out of sources of quantum states characterized only by a single type of coarse measurement. This defines a new notion of extractable work, which we call observational ergotropy, because it is directly related to observational […]

Speaker: Pedro Dieguez (ICTQT) Abstract Wheeler’s delayed-choice experiment, a scenario wherein a classical apparatus, typically an interferometer, is settled only after the quantum system has entered it, has corroborated the complementarity principle. However, the quantum version of Wheeler's delayed-choice experiment has challenged the robustness of this principle. Based on the visibility at the output of […]

Speaker: Eric Aurell (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Abstract

Speaker: Giovanni Scala (ICTQT, UG) Abstract We introduce a family of positive linear maps in the algebra of 3 x3 complex matrices, which generalizes the seminal positive non-decomposable map originally proposed by Choi. Necessary and sufficient conditions for decomposability are derived and demonstrated. The proposed maps offer a new method for the analysis of bound entangled […]

Speaker: Satoshi Yoshida (University of Tokyo) Abstract In this work, we report a deterministic and exact algorithm to reverse any unknown qubit-encoding isometry operation. We present the semidefinite programming (SDP) to search the Choi matrix representing a quantum circuit reversing any unitary operation. We derive a quantum circuit transforming four calls of any qubit-unitary operation into […]

Speaker: Adam Sawicki (Centre for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw) Abstract

Speaker: M.Hopjan (J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana) Abstract Recently it was shown, in the three-dimensional Anderson model [1] and the avalanche model of ergodicity breaking transitions [2], that the spectral form factor and the Thouless time extracted from the spectral form factor are scale invariant quantities at eigenstate transition. Thus they represent useful measures for characterisation […]