Experimental practical quantum tokens with transaction time advantage

Speaker: Dr. Damián Pitalúa-García Abstract Quantum money is the first invention in quantum information science, promising advantages over classical money by simultaneously achieving unforgeability, user privacy, and instant validation. However, standard quantum money relies on quantum memories and long-distance quantum communication, which are technologically extremely challenging. Quantum "S-money" tokens eliminate these technological requirements while preserving […]

Speaker: Michał Oszmaniec (University of Warsaw) Abstract In quantum theory general measurements are described by so-called Positive Operator-Valued Measures (POVMs). In this work we show that in d-dimensional quantum systems an application of depolarizing noise with constant (independent of d) visibility parameter makes any POVM simulable by a randomized implementation of projective measurements that do […]

Speaker: Julian Siegl Abstract The combined action of a DC bias and a microwave drive on the transport characteristic of a superconductor-quantum dot-superconductor junction is investigated. To cope with time dependent non-equilibrium effects and interactions in the quantum dot, we develop a general formalism for the dynamics of the density operator based on a particle […]

Speaker: Tony Apollaro (University of Malta) Abstract The transfer of quantum information between different locations is key to many quantum information processing tasks. Whereas, the transfer of a single qubit state has been extensively investigated, the transfer of a many-body system configuration has insofar remained elusive. We address the problem of transferring the state of […]

Speaker: Fabio Costa (University of Queensland) Abstract What does it mean for a causal structure to be “unknown”? Can we even talk about “repetitions” of an experiment without prior knowledge of causal relations? And under what conditions can we say that a set of processes are independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.)? Similar questions for classical […]

Speaker: Robert Spekkens (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics) Abstract Can the effectiveness of a medical treatment be determined without the expense of a randomized controlled trial? Can the impact of a new policy be disentangled from other factors that happen to vary at the same time? Questions such as these are the purview of the field […]

Speaker: Adamantia Zampeli (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) Abstract In this talk, I will introduce the main elements and ideas of the general boundary formulation [R. Oeckl. A local and operational framework for the foundations of physics. Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 23(2):437–592, 2019. arXiv: 1610.09052.]. This is a formalism inspired by quantum gravity approaches […]

Speaker: Dorota Maria Grabowska Abstract Constrained Hamiltonians are ubiquitous in fundamental physics, as any gauge theory – general relativity, electromagnetism, Yang–Mills, string theory – all result in such Hamiltonians. Unfortunately, implementing these Hamiltonians on digital quantum computers poses a number of difficulties, both theoretical and practical. In this talk, I will discuss our recent work on […]

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 […]