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QUANTUM

FINITE AND INFINITE QUANTUM  SYSTEMS

Entanglement, Coherence and Control

Local coordinator: Elisa Ercolessi

 e-mail: elisa.ercolessi@bo.infn.it

The QUANTUM Collaboration involves 9 research groups affiliated with 6 INFN Divisions: Bari, Bologna-Camerino, Catania-Palermo, Milano (Como), Napoli-Salerno and Trieste, and focuses on the recent developments that have changed the status of quantum mechanics and made the development of Quantum Technologies a European Flaghsip whose aim, as stated in the Quantum Manifesto, is “to place Europe at the forefront of the second quantum revolution now unfolding worldwide, bringing transformative advances to science, industry and society”. Indeed, the most puzzling aspects of the theory, that were considered paradoxical until a couple of decades ago, have become the main focus of theoretical and experimental investigations, and are viewed nowadays as useful resources enabling the implementation of protocols and technologies precluded in the classical world.

The research group in Bologna focuses on the study of quantum many body models, that represent a paradigm for the study of of systems with strong interactions, in which non-perturbative effects and quantum correlations play a crucial role, bridging  the study of condensed matter systems and field theoretical  models used to describe the physics of fundamental interactions of particles and gravity. The study of critical phenomena and quantum phases in complex systems is based on quantum information and computation theory, which can lead to very promising  applications to data science, through the development of quantum algorithms and of new techniques such as quantum machine learning.

Staff members: Elisa Ercolessi, Stefano Mancini, Davide Vodola

PhD students: Milajiguli Rexiti, Octavio Pomponio, Sunny Pradhan

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