Category Archives: Visiting

Seminar by Maciej Lewenstein


We are happy to announce that Prof. Maciej Lewenstein from ICFO is going to visit us and deliver a seminar.

Speaker: Maciej Lewenstein (ICFO – Barcelona)
When: Tuesday, 26th April 2022, 2:30PM (CEST)
Where: Aula Polvani & online (Zoom) zoom.us/my/aula.polvani

Title: Quantum Information Science and Quantum Technologies at Quantum Optics Group at ICFO

Abstract:
In my talk I will give an overview of research lines in my group that belong to the Quantum Information area: 1) Detection and characterization of entanglement and Bell correlations in many body systems; 2) Quantum Simulators; 3) Quantum Thermodynamics; 4) Quantum Metrology and Estimation; 5) Interpreting Quantum Phenomena in Music. I focus on demand on those aspect that will be the most interesting for the audience.

New Visiting Scholar and Seminar

Heng-Ji Li from the School of Computer Science of the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications is going to join our group as a visiting scholar starting from April 2021.
Welcome on board Heng-Ji!

He is going to deliver our group seminar. See the details here below.

Speaker: Heng-Ji Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, CHN)
When: Wednesday, 7thh Aprile 2021, 3PM (CET time)
Where: online (Zoom) zoom.us/my/aula.consiglio


Title: Accomplishing quantum information tasks with coined quantum walks

Abstract:
Quantum walks (QWs) have received much attention due to their many potential applications for quantum information processing in recent years. In our work, we take advantage of the properties of coined quantum walks to accomplish some quantum information tasks, such as quantum teleportation, quantum information splitting and quantum teleportation of shared quantum secret. To do it, different kinds of models of QWs are used, such as QWs with multiple walkers, coins and so on. This work opened wider application of QWs and provided inspiration to explore the potential applications of QWs.

Seminar by Nathan Shammah

We are happy to announce our next seminars.

Speaker: Nathan Shammah (Unitary Fund)
When: Thursday, 26th November 2020, 3pm (CET)
Where: online (Zoom)  zoom.us/my/aula.x 

Title: Quantum error mitigation on noisy quantum computers
Abstract:
Error-mitigation techniques improve computational performance (with respect to noise) using minimal overhead in quantum resources by relying on a mixture of quantum sampling and classical post-processing techniques. In this talk I will provide a brief overview of error mitigation techniques and a hands-on introduction to an open-source package for error-mitigation in quantum computation, Mitiq [1,2], which implements zero-noise extrapolation and soon probabilistic error cancellation [3].

References:
[1] T. Giurgica-Tiron et al., “Digital zero noise extrapolation for quantum error mitigation”, https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10921 <https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10921>
[2] R. LaRose et al., “‘Mitiq: A software package for error mitigation on noisy quantum computers”, https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04417 <https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04417>. https://mitiq.readthedocs.io/<https://mitiq.readthedocs.io/>
[3] K. Temme et al., “Error mitigation for short-depth quantum circuits”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 180509 (2017), https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.02058 <https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.02058>


We are also glad to announce two more seminars
more details in the next weeks — SAVE THE DATE(S)

Speaker: Patrick Potts (Lund University)
When: Thursday, 10th December 2020, 3PM (CET time)
Where: online (Zoom) zoom.us/my/aula.x
Title: Certifying nonclassical behavior for negative Keldysh
 quasiprobabilities

Speaker: Luca Razzoli (University of Modena & Reggio Emilia)
When: Thursday, 17th December 2020, 3PM (CET time)
Where: online (Zoom) zoom.us/my/aula.x
Title: Transport efficiency of continuous-time quantum walks on graphs

Speaker: Jan Chwedenczuk (Warsaw University)
When: Thursday, 7th January 2020, 3PM (CET time)
Where: online (Zoom) zoom.us/my/aula.x
Title: Many-body nonlocality as a resource for quantum-enhanced
metrology

May seminars

In May we will host a series of seminars; here’s the list (timings and locations will be added).


Tuesday, 15 May 2018
Sofia Zebboudj (University of Bejaia)
“Deterministic measurement device independent quantum key distribution with two secret bits per shared entangled pair”


Tuesday, 22 May 2018
Filippo Troiani (CNR – Modena)


Tuesday, 29 May 2018
Nicola Piovella (University of Milan)

April seminars

In April we will host a series of seminars; here’s the list (please note the different timings).


Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:00 Aula Polvani (piano 1 LITA)
Alessio Serafini (University College London)
“Quantum Control of Continuous Variables”


Tuesday, 10 April 2018 12:15 Aula Polvani (piano 1 LITA)
Patrick Hofer (Lund University)
“Fundamental limits on low-temperature quantum thermometry”


Monday, 16 April 2018 14.30 Aula Polvani (piano 1 LITA)
Sebastian Deffner (University of Maryland)
“Quantum fluctuation theorems go Quantum Computers”


Tuesday, 17 April 2018 12:15 Aula Polvani (piano 1 LITA)
Nicola Dalla Pozza (University of Padova)
“Naimark extension for phase-measurements”


Tuesday, 24 April 2018 14:30 Aula Ottica Quantistica (piano 5 LITA)
Nathan Shammah (RIKEN, Japan)
“Efficient open-source simulation of open quantum systems with both collective and local dissipation”