13th Italian Quantum Information Science Conference (10-15 October 2021)

Monday, 11 October 2021

09:30 Welcome coffee and Registration
Welcome coffee and Registration
09:30 - 10:30
10:30
10:30 - 12:50
Contributions

10:30 Opening

10:45 Remote Phase Sensing by Coherent Single Photon Addition - Marco Bellini (Istituto Nazionale di Ottica CNR-INO)

11:10 Quantum information from spacetime dynamics - Orlando Luongo (University of Camerino)

11:35 A multimode framework to describe photon subtraction operation - Mohamed Faouzi MELALKIA (Institut de Physique de Nice (INPHYNI) - Université Côte d'Azur - CNRS UMR 7010)

12:00 Quantum speed-ups in reinforcement learning - Valeria Saggio (University of Vienna)

12:25 Improving quantum teleportation with a quantum dot-based entangled photon source - Francesco Basso Basset (Sapienza University of Rome)
13:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 17:00
Contributions

14:30 The four postulates of quantum mechanics are three - Lorenzo Maccone (Universita' di Pavia)

14:55 There is only one time - Alessandro Cuccoli (Università di Firenze - Dipartimento di Fisica)

15:20 Quantum gravitational decoherence - Luciano Petruzziello (University of Salerno & INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)

15:45 On the notion of causal influence - Paolo Perinotti (Università di Pavia)

16:10 Thouless pumping of photons - Valentina Brosco (Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, CNR and Physics Department, Università di Roma "La Sapienza")

16:35 Entanglement between remote ions interfaced with cavities - Maria Galli (University of Innsbruck)
Tuesday, 12 October 2021
08:50
08:50 - 10:55
Contributions

08:50 Optimal energy conversion through anti-adiabatic driving - Giuliano Benenti (Dip. Scienze Alta Tecnologia, Univ. Insubria, Como, Italy)

09:15 Quantum Energy Lines and the optimal output ergotropy problem - Salvatore Tirone (Scuola Normale Superiore)

09:40 A hybrid classical-quantum approach to improve Q-learning - Francesco Plastina (Dip. Fisica UNICAL - INFN Gruppo Collegato di Cosenza)

10:05 Towards the detection of quantum light in the mid-infrared - Natalia Bruno (Istituto Nazionale di Ottica (CNR-INO), Largo Enrico Fermi 6, 50125 Florence, Italy & European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Via nello Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy)

10:30 New applications of twin beams: from quantum reading to quantum conformance test - MARCO GENOVESE (inrim)
10:55 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:55 - 11:20
11:20
11:20 - 13:00
Contributions

11:20 Robust engineering of universal Gaussian cluster states for continuous variable measurement-based quantum computation - David Vitali (Università di Camerino)

11:45 Unconventional superconducting devices and designs for quantum architectures - Davide Massarotti (Università Federico II)

12:10 Tensor network algorithms for high-dimensional quantum many-body systems - Simone Montangero

12:35 Thermal rectification through a nonlinear quantum resonator - Elisabetta Paladino (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Catania)
13:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 17:00
Contributions

14:30 Quantum estimation reaching for the continuum - Marco Barbieri (Università Roma Tre, Italy)

14:55 Observation of Larmor precession of a single spin in a semiconductor quantum dot - Dario Alessandro Fioretto (Centre de Nanosciences et Nanotechnologies (C2N), CNRS, Université Paris Saclay)

15:20 Coherent Manipulation and Readout of Molecular Spins through Planar Superconducting Microwave Resonators - Claudio Bonizzoni (Istituto Nanoscienze CNR NANO S3 di Modena)

15:45 Entanglement recovery and state robustness via spatial deformation of identical particle wave functions - Matteo Piccolini (Università degli Studi di Palermo)

16:10 Entanglement in indistinguishable particle systems - Ugo Marzolino (INFN, Trieste) Fabio Benatti (Università di Trieste)

16:35 Single Microwave Photon Detection with Josephson Junctions for Axion Search: First Tests - Fabio Chiarello (CNR-IFN)
17:15

17:15 - 19:00
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
09:00
09:00 - 12:45
Contributions

09:00 QTs, sfide ed opportunità nei Piani Nazionali di sviluppo: il punto di vista delle imprese

11:30 QTs, sfide ed opportunità nei Piani Nazionali di sviluppo: il punto di vista delle imprese
12:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 17:00
Contributions

14:30 Quantum decay at short, intermediate, and long times: Observation in integrated photonics - Francesco Pepe

14:55 Entanglement detection in Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum devices - Vittorio Vitale (SISSA)

15:20 Dressed emitters as impurities - Luca Leonforte (Università degli studi di Palermo)

15:45 Exotic interactions mediated by a non-Hermitian photonic bath - Federico Roccati (Università degli Studi di Palermo)

16:10 Few- and many-body photon bound states in quantum nonlinear media - Giuseppe Calajo (ICFO)

16:35 Light-Matter interactions in synthetic magnetic fields: Landau-Photon polaritons - Daniele De Bernardis (BEC-CNR-INFM and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento, I-38050 Povo, Italy and)
Thursday, 14 October 2021
09:00
09:00 - 10:55
Contributions

09:00 Virtual photons in ultra-strongly coupled systems or Quantum Nonlinear Optics without Photons - Franco Nori (RIKEN and University of Michigan)

09:40 Advancements on QKD networking in space and on the ground - Francesco Vedovato (University of Padova)

10:05 On the properties of the asymptotic incompatibility measure in multi-parameter quantum estimation - Alessandro Candeloro (University of Milan)

10:30 Mesoscopic twin-beam states propagating through noisy and lossy channels for novel Quantum Communication protocols - Alessia Allevi (University of Insubria, Como)
10:55 Break
Break
10:55 - 11:20
11:20
11:20 - 12:50
Contributions

11:20 QFold: A Quantum Metropolis Optimization Algorithm - Miguel Ángel Martín-Delgado (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

12:00 Quantum Machine Learning - Filippo Caruso (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università degli Studi di Firenze)

12:25 Measurement induced topological entanglement transition in a free fermion model - Alessandro Romito (Lancaster University)
12:50 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:50 - 14:10
14:10
14:10 - 15:25
Contributions

14:10 Atom-photon bound states in an array of high-impedance superconducting resonators - Simone Gasparinetti (Chalmers University of Technology)

14:35 Quantum hypothesis testing for exoplanet detection - Zixin Huang (Macquarie University)

15:00 Genuine multipartite nonlocality with collective postselection strategies - Valentin Gebhart (CNR-INO)
15:25 Break
Break
15:25 - 15:50
15:50
15:50 - 17:30
Contributions

15:50 Coherent and dissipative dynamics at quantum phase transitions - Davide Rossini (University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy)

16:15 Topological multiterminal superconducting systems - Gianluca Rastelli (CNR-INO Trento)

16:40 Device-independent certification of quantum technologies - Iris Agresti (La Sapienza university of Rome)

17:05 Probe incompatibility in multiparameter noisy quantum metrology - Francesco Albarelli (University of Warwick)
Friday, 15 October 2021
09:00
09:00 - 10:55
Contributions

09:00 Entangling solid-state quantum repeater nodes - Hughes de Riedmatten (ICFO)

09:40 Witnessing Bell violations through probabilistic negativity - Benjamin Morris (University of Nottingham)

10:05 Underground tests of Quantum Mechanics: Collapse Models and Pauli Exclusion Principle - Catalina Oana Curceanu (INFN-LNF)

10:30 Single-shot simulations of prolonged quantum dynamics with structured light - Francesco Di Colandrea (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
10:55 Break
Break
10:55 - 11:20
11:20
11:20 - 13:00
Contributions

11:20 Integrated quantum photonics in femtosecond-laser-written devices - Roberto Osellame (IFN-CNR)

11:45 Fundamental thresholds of realistic quantum error correction circuits from classical spin models - Davide Vodola

12:10 Trapped ions for hybrid quantum systems - Lucia Duca (INRiM / LENS)

12:35 Speeding up quantum annealing: schedule engineering and optimal driving - Gianluca Passarelli (CNR-SPIN Napoli)
13:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:10
14:10
14:10 - 15:40
Contributions

14:10 A Bose-Einstein condensate in holographically-generated optical traps - Donatella Cassettari (University of St Andrews)

14:50 Variational Quantum Eigensolver for SU(N) Fermions - Mirko Consiglio (Department of Physics, University of Malta)

15:15 Transient dynamics in Rydberg-EIT - Roberto Tricarico (Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II)
15:40 Break
Break
15:40 - 16:05
16:05
16:05 - 17:30
Contributions

16:05 Symmetry resolved entanglement - Pasquale Calabrese

16:30 Quantifying the difference between many-body quantum states - Davide Girolami (Politecnico di Torino)

16:55 Generalized coherence vector: definition and applications - Gustavo Martin Bosyk (Università degli Studi di Cagliari & Instituto de Física La Plata - CONICET)

17:20 Closing