News

2024

• We are delighted to welcome Dr. Kazutaka Takahashi to the QST group! 

• Cheers to Léonce Dupays, on the road from UniLu to King's College London, with license for Transitionless Quantum Driving of the Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquid

• After a terrific postdoc at the QST group jointly with the Chenu Lab, Dr. Federico Balducci joins the MPI-PKS Dresden! Apr 30, 2024

• Congratulations to Nicoletta Carabba for defending her PhD thesis on Quantum Speed Limits to Operator Growth with flying colors! Apr 15, 2014

• Cheers to Apollonas Matsoukas-Roubeas for successfully defending his PhD thesis Quantum Chaos, Complexity and Decoherence! Feb 21, 2024 

• Thanks to the organizers of Quantum Dynamics & Chaos: Modern Perspectives at Ashoka University for the invitation to present the work on Shortcuts to Adiabaticity in Krylov space.  Mar 11, 2024

• We are thrilled to welcome Alexander von Humboldt Professor Martin B Plenio as our distinguished speaker at the Physics Colloquium at the University of Luxembourg. Adolfo's former postdoctoral advisor delved into Quantum Technologies for the Life Sciences, navigating from his foundational research in Quantum Information Theory to the impactful strides made in experiments and industry by NVision Imaging Technologies. A journey through the Himalayas of research excellence made even more special with the presence of UniLu's funding rector, Rolf Tarrach. Feb 28, 2024

• Cheers to Pratik Nandy (YITP &RIKEN) for a wonderful seminar and thanks for visiting the group  Jan 17 -Feb2, 2024

• Thanks to Pieter Caeys for an exciting seminar on the Krylov complexity of unitary quantum circuits on Jan 12, 2024

• Léonce Dupays defends successfully his PhD on Fast Control of Open and Many-Body Quantum Systems, with Pieter Claeys, Jérôme Dubail, Etienne Fodor and Massimiliano Esposito as a jury, on Jan 11, 2024. Congratulations Dr. Dupays!

2023

• Adolfo del Campo is elected 2023 American Physical Society Fellow in the Division of Quantum Information and along Javier Aizpurua at DIPC

• We co-organize the brainstorm QuFiCh workshop  with the Chenu lab and the TCP group

• See the News and Views When Ising met Kibble-Zurek in Nature Physics on our work Kibble-Zurek mechanism of Ising domains

• Available now, the recorded talk at the ICP Brazilia conference on physics beyond the Kibble-Zurek mechanism

• Here is the Viewpoint in Physics for the symmetry classification of open systems by Kawabata et al.

• That was a hectic and exciting summer! Thanks to Barry Sanders for hosting at the University of Calgary, Eduardo Martin-Martinez for hosting at the Perimeter Institute, Lian-Ao Wu for the invitation to present at AMMCS-2023, and Aephraim Steinberg for hosting at the University of Toronto!

• Our work on the Kibble-Zurek mechanism of Ising Domains is published in Nature Physics and covered by QUINFOG and  Mapping Ignorance

• At the 15th BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Awards with Steven Pinker at the Euskalduna Palace in Bilbao

• A UniLu Division participates in Statistical physics and low dimensional systems at Pont-à-Mousson (France) with talks by Aurelia Chenu ad Adolfo del Campo

• Nicoletta Carabba reports on Quantum Speed Limits for Operator Flows and Operator Growth at the Workshop on Stochastic Thermodynamics - WOST IV. Her great talk is available on YouTube

• Delta Kick cooling of interacting gases allows one to tailor & control dynamical fermionization in a Tonks-Girardeau gas

• Great to finally meet in person our collaborator Sang-Wook Cheong. Our joint work will soon be out!

• Apr 31 Congratulations to Dr. Mithun Thudiyangal, a senior postdoc in the group, on becoming a faculty member at the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE)! Looking forward to continuing our collaboration! Enjoy, and good luck!

2022

• Nov 22 Our prediction of universal scaling relations in dynamical ordering transitions is verified experimentally at Tokodai!

• Sep Prof. Kazutaka Takahashi visits the QST group this Fall!

• Sep Dr. Mithun Thudiyangal and Dr. Federico Balducci join the group! 

• May 13 Bsc student Julien Cornelius leads a publication on enhancing quantum chaos now published in Physical Review Letters

see media cover by Los Alamos National Laboratory Finding coherence in quantum chaos as well as EurekAlert!, ScienceDaily, InsideQuantumTechnology, HPCWire, TimeToTimes, VerveTimes, newsindiacenter, and the like

• Nov 27 After a research stay in the group over the last months, Yang Guanzhuo comes back to Shanghai. Thanks for visiting!

• Nov 25-26: Invited talk at the Dreiburg 2019 meeting on many-body quantum chaos 

• Oct 28-31:  The QSLTHERMO19 workshop we organized takes place in Bilbao. Cheers to all participants!

• Sept 30- Oct 13 Shiue-Yuan Shiau (NCTS) visits the group

• Sept 30-Oct 3: Aurelia Chenu and Adolfo del Campo, invited speakers at the Quantum Innovators in science and engineering workshop,

        Institute for Quantum Computing, Waterloo, Canada

• Sept 6: Yang Guangzhuo starts his three-month research stay in the group

• Sept 6: After a highly successful DIPC summer internship, Jack Mayo goes back to Groningen. Cheers!

• Sept 1, After completing an extraordinary postdoc in the group, Luis Pedro García-Pintos moves to the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland to work with Alexey Gorshkov

• Aug 26-30 Aurelia Chenu (video) and Adolfo del Campo (video), speakers at the Conference on Quantum Information and Quantum Control-VIII (Fields Institute, Toronto)

• Aug 14-21 AdC visits MIT, UMass Boston, Boston University, Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University and UMass Lowell.

• July 26: Prof. Gerardo Ortiz (UIB) visits the group

• July 25: Our work on Spontaneous symmetry breaking induced by quantum monitoring is accepted in Physical Review Letters!

• July 15-27: Dr. Luis Pedro Garcia-Pintos (UMass Boston branch) visits the group in Bilbao

• July 13-27: Dr. Fernando Javier Gomez-Ruiz joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow

• July 10-12: Quantum Simulation: Gauge fields, Holography, and Topology, Bilbao (Spain)

• July 8-10: Adolfo speaks at Quantum Thermal Machines: Dynamical Models and Implementations at the Nanoscale, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen

• June 23-28: Aurelia Chenu speaks at QTD2019 Quantum ThermoDynamics Conference at Espoo, Finland

• June 17-21: Our International Workshop DYNQOS19: Engineering Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Open Quantum Systems takes place at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden!

• May 29: Talk at Quantum Information and String Theory 2019 - It from Qubit Workshop at Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University on "Extreme Decoherence and Quantum Chaos"

• May 10: Prof. Uma Divakaran (Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, Kerala) visits the group

• May 6-12: Prof. Shumpei Masuda (Tokyo Medical and Dental University) visits the group

• Apr 26: Our work  "Probing the Full Distribution of Many-Body Observables By Single-Qubit Interferometry" is published in Physical Review Letters

• Apr 22: Invited talk on "Universal full counting statistics of topological defects", Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

• Apr 18: Mapping ignorance covers our work on the inhomogeneous quantum Kibble-Zurek mechanism

• Apr 18: Invited talk on "Universal full counting statistics of topological defects", Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

• Apr 16: Invited talk on "Extreme decoherence and quantum chaos", Shanghai Jiao-Tong University, Shanghai, China

• Apr 15: Invited talk at East China Normal University on "Universal distribution of topological defects and adiabatic quantum computation", Shanghai, China

• Apr 12: Invited talk at Soochow University on "Universal distribution of topological defects and adiabatic quantum computation", Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

• Apr 11: Invited talk at Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics (WIPM), Chinese Academy of Sciences "Universal distribution of topological defects and adiabatic quantum computation", Wuhan, Hubei, China

• Apr 4: Invited talk at DPG-Frühjahrstagung — Regensburg19 on Extreme decoherence and quantum chaos, Regensburg, Germany

• Mar 26: Invited talk at  DIPC Quantum Science mini-workshop on "Statistics of topological defects and adiabatic quantum computation"

• Feb 18 - Mar 2: Prof. Kazutaka Takahashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology) visits the group

• Feb 11 - 22: Prof. Uwe Fischer from Seoul national University visits the group

• Feb 10 - 14: Dr. Sahar Alipour (Aalto University) and Ali Rezakhani (Sharif University of Technology) visit the group

• Feb 12: Workshop EQOS2019 Engineering Quantum Open Systems, Bilbao, Spain

• Feb 7 Our manuscript on the Universal dynamics of inhomogeneous quantum phase transitions is accepted in Physical Review Letters

• Jan 24: Cheers to  Doha Mesnaoui, who defended successfully her Master thesis on "Many-particle quantum thermal machines"

• Jan 23 - 26: Ángel Rivas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) visits the group and gives a seminar on

  • "Measures and estimators of correlations in quantum dynamics"

• Jan 10: Mapping Ignorance covers our work on Extreme Decoherence and Quantum Chaos

• Jan 9: Our work on Extreme Decoherence and Quantum Chaos is published in Physical Review Letters

2018

• Dec 5: Our manuscript on Extreme Decoherence is accepted in Physical Review Letters. Cheers to the team!

• Nov 14: Our work on critical dynamics beyond the Kibble-Zurek mechanism is published in Physical Review Letters

• Oct 30 - Nov2: Luis Pedro Garcia-Pintos visits LANL and gives the Quantum Lunch Seminar in the Theoretical Division

• Aug 28: Check out our new work on symmetry breaking under continuous measurements with Luis Pedro Garcia Pintos and Diego Tielas

• Aug 19 - 23 Emergent Topological Order in Classical Systems Conference in Santa Fe, NM

• June 29 Science News covers our research presented at KITP QThermo18

• June 29 Check our recent preprint on the statistics of topological defects formed across a quantum phase transition

• June 26 Invited Talk at KITP QThermo18 on Quantum thermodynamics of complex systems

• May 31 - June 1 Minicourse on Shortcuts to adiabaticity at the Institut Henri Poincaré

                    Talk 1 - Shortcuts to adiabaticity: noncritical systems

                     Talk 2 - Shortcuts to adiabaticity: critical systems

• April 26 Our work on Quantum to Classical Speed Limits is covered in QC资讯

• April 26 Our article on friction-free quantum thermodynamics is published in Science Advances. This is the result of a great collaboration with Haibin Wu's group at East China Normal University, where the experimental demonstration with a unitary Fermi gas was done.

         Shujin Deng and Aurelia Chenu at East China Normal University

• April26: Condensed Matter Seminar at Duke University

• April 25: See our latest preprint on Work Statistics, Loschmidt Echo and Information Scrambling in Chaotic Quantum Systems

• March 26: Prof. Zhen-Yu Xu from Soochow University starts his sabbatical year in the group

• March 12-16: Adolfo is invited speaker at the conference on Many-body quantum systems far away from equilibrium in Stellenbosch, South Africa 

• March 15: Phys.Org features our work in Quantum speed limits are not actually quantum by Lisa Zyga

• March 11: Luis Pedro presents an invited talk at the Boston University workshop on Non-Thermal Quantum Systems

• March 2: Program announced for PRACQSYS 2018 - Principles and Applications of Control in Quantum Systems, 2-6 July 2018 at IHP (Paris).

• March 1: John Doyle from Harvard University visits the department, presenting cutting-edge results on laser cooling of molecules.

• Feb 28: The QST group visits Vladan Vuletic's lab at MIT, with Diego Tielas giving a talk on quantum control algorithms. 

        Our thanks to the Vladan's group for the fascinating tour and discussions!

• Feb 23 Prof. del Campo receives the Outstanding Reviewer Award 2017 from IOP in recognition of the high quality and timeliness of reviews for New Journal of Physics

• Feb 12 Our work on Quantum Speed Limits across the Quantum-to-Classical Transition is published in Physical Review Letters

• Jan 12 Seminar at UPV-EHU on "Engineering Quantum Thermal machines", QUTIS group

2017

• Dec 14: Two great papers coming out from Tokyo Tech and Maryland start the NJP Special Focus Issue on Shortcuts to Adiabaticity

• Dec 13: Our manuscript on classical speed limits is accepted in Physical Review Letters

• Nov 11: Physics colloquium at UMass Lowell

• Nov 2: See Superadiabatic quantum friction suppression in finite-time thermodynamics in collaboration with Haibin Wu's group at ECNU

• Oct 30 - Nov 1: ITAMP Workshop on Quantum Thermodynamics

• Oct 19: Here is our work on classical speed limits

• Oct 17: MIT Phys Math Seminar on Shortcuts To Adiabaticity

• Oct 16: Violation of the exponential decay law discovered in open quantum systems [Phys.org]

• Sept 29: The Quantum Science and Technology seminar restarts in the Fall term with a talk by Nick Hunter-Jones (Caltech) on "Quantum chaos, random matrices, and k-invariance"

• Sept 27: Our work on Nonexponential Quantum Decay under Environmental Decoherence is published in Physical Review Letters. Cheers to L. A. Khalfin!

• Sep 21: Talk on "Strongly-coupled quantum systems far away from equilibrium and their control" at the workshop Finite Systems in Nonequilibrium: From Quantum Quench to the Formation of Strong Correlations. Thanks to the organizers Francesca Gulminelli, Pavel Lipavsky and Klaus Morawetz!

• Sept 15 - Dec 2: Callum Duncan, a PhD candidate at the Heriot-Watt University  visits the group as a research scholar

• Sept: Luis Pedro Garcia-Pintos joins the group as a postdoctoral research associate!

• Jul 25: UMass Quantum Science and Technology Workshop

• Jul 7: Our work "Nonlinear Quantum Metrology of Many-Body Open Systems" is published in Physical Review Letters 

• Jul 5: The Focus on "Shortcuts to Adiabaticity" issue in New Journal of Physics has been launched!

• May: Adolfo becomes Associate Editor of Quantum Measurements and Quantum Metrology (De Gruyter)

• Apr 13 - Aug 12: Ivan B. Coulamy, PhD student of Marcelo Sarandy at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, visits the group for four months

• Apr 5: Our collaboration with Aurelia Chenu and Jianshu Cao at MIT is published in Physical Review Letters as "Quantum Simulation of Generic Many-Body Open System Dynamics Using Classical Noise" 

• Mar 8 - 12: Prof. Eric Lutz, from the Institute for Theoretical Physics II at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, visits the group

• Mar 8: Our collaboration with Masahito Ueda's group (U. of Tokyo) and Kihwan Kim's Group (Tsinghua U.) is published in Physical Review Letters as "Universal Work Fluctuations During Shortcuts to Adiabaticity by Counterdiabatic Driving"

• Feb 23: APA-Science article "Quantenmotoren laufen von Natur aus ungleichmäßig" on our joint work with G. Watanabe, P. Venkatesh and  P. Talkner

• Feb 23: Physics Colloquium at UMass Boston on the "Engineering quantum thermal machines"

• Feb 14: In the arxiv!  "Scrambling the spectral form factor: unitarity constraints and exact results" in collaboration with Javier Molina-Villaplana (University of Cartagena) and Julian Sonner (University of Geneva)

• Feb 2: Our work is covered in Synopsis: Number of Cycles Matters for a Quantum Engine by Ana Lopes, Senior Editor of Physics.

• Jan 12 - 13: Manuel Valiente and Callum Duncan (Heriot-Watt University) visit the group

• Jan 8 - 28: Adolfo visits National University of Singapore, Centre for Quantum Technologies, East China Normal University, Tsinghua University and NYU Shanghai

• Jan 11: Talk at NUS on "Engineering quantum thermal machines" 

• Jan 10: Our work "Quantum Performance of Thermal Machines Over Many Cycles" is selected as an Editors' Suggestion in Physical Review Letters

2016

• Video lecture at the conference Adiabatic Quantum Annealing 2016 at Google Headquarters (Venice, CA) on "Driving Spin Systems with Noisy Control Fields: Limits to Adiabatic Protocols"

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• Oct 5, Video lecture on Spin chains far away from equilibrium: shortcuts to adiabaticity at the workshop "Entanglement in Quantum Systems", Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook, NY

• Sept 16-17 Mathieu Beau participates at the New England Theoretical Cosmology and Gravity Workshop at Brown University in Providence, RI, USA

• Colloquium at Dartmouth College on Shortcuts to Adiabaticity in Many-Body Systems now online

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• July 25-29 Lectures at XVIII Giambiagi School on Quantum Chaos & Control, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Talk 1: Shortcuts to adiabaticity in noncritical systems

Talk 2: Shortcuts to adiabaticity in critical systems

Talk 3: Quantum Speed Limits

• June 5-8 Aurelia Chenu and Adolfo del Campo are hosted by Wojciech Zurek at the Theory Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory

• June 24 It turns out that local driving protocols can outperform conventional schemes in quantum annealing and adiabatic quantum computation

• June 2 This appears to be the first family of exactly solvable models with interactions of tunable range!

• June 2 We are saddened to learn about the passing of our collaborator Sir Tom Kibble, a magnificent physicist and person, and a deep source of inspiration

• May 25-27 Thanks to Thomas Busch and his group at OIST for organizing and hosting a fantastic event on Spatial Adiabatic Passage, in Okinawa, Japan

• May 3, We find that limits to adiabatic protocols arise in the presence of noisy control fields that induces anti-Kibble-Zurek behavior

• "Scaling-Up Quantum Heat Engines Efficiently via Shortcuts to Adiabaticity" is published as Feature paper in  the Special Issue "Quantum Thermodynamics" edited by Ronnie Kosloff in Entropy

• Invited talk at the Princeton-TAMU Symposium on Quantum Noise Effects in Thermodynamics, Biology and Information, Princeton University, April 14-16, 2016

• Aurelia Chenu and Adolfo del Campo visit  David Huse at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton, April 13, 2016

• Quantum Science and Technology Seminar at UMass Boston on "Quantum Supremacy of Many-Particle Thermal Machines", April 12, 2016

• Suzanne Pittman (Harvard University) becomes a long-term visitor in the group working on many-body integrable models

• Cyril Chatou (Université Paris Nord) visits the group for the period March 15th-July 15th to complete his Master thesis

• Julen Pedernales, Phd Student at the Quantum Technologies for Information Science group led by Enrique Solano at the University of Basque Country visits the group

• Learn about the <Quantum supremacy of many-particle thermal machines>

• CM Seminar at UMass Amherst

• AMOP Seminar at UConn

• See  our recent work arXiv:1601.05551, in collaboration with Kihwan Kim's group at Tsinghua SIII, reporting the  experimental realization of shortcuts to adiabaticity via counterdiabatic driving

• Anirban Dutta joins the group as a postdoctoral research associate

• PQE-2016 invited talk on "Shortcuts to Adiabaticity for Matter-Waves" (Jan 4) at Snowbird, Utah

• Juan Jaramillo moves to the National University of Singapore as a postdoctoral research associate at Jianbing Gong's group

2015

• iQuISE colloquium at RLE MIT on "Shortcuts to Adiabaticity" (Nov 12)

• Javier Molina-Vilaplana (UP Cartagena) visits the group (Nov 8-14)

• Here is our proposal for a many-particle heat engine

• Talk on "Shortcuts to adiabaticity in quantum thermodynamics" at the New Horizons in Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics (Erice, Italy)

• Media coverage by UMass on "Universal far-from-equilibrium Dynamics of a Holographic Superconductor" 

• Commentary for PNAS on colloids as a test bed for universal dynamics of phase transitions

• Talk on "Shortcuts to adiabaticity in quantum thermodynamics" at the Quantum Control of Light & Matter Gordon Research Conference (South Hadley, MA)

• Talk on "Shortcuts to adiabaticity in many-body systems" at the he 4th Conference in Adiabatic Quantum Computing (Zurich, Switzerland)

Thrilled to welcome Alexander von Humboldt Professor Martin B Plenio as our distinguished speaker at the Physics Colloquium at the University of Luxembourg. My former academic advisor delved into Quantum Technologies for the Life Sciences, navigating from his foundational research in Quantum Information Theory to the impactful strides made in experiments and industry by NVision Imaging Technologies. A journey through the Himalayas of research excellence made even more special with the presence of UniLu's funding rector, Rolf Tarrach.