pAPERS
pAPERS
See also Google Scholar for a complete list of publications. Selected conferences, awards, and research highlights are noted below.
1). Learning quantum states of continuous variable systems
F. A. Mele, A. A. Mele, L. Bittel, J. Eisert, V. Giovannetti, L. Lami, L. Leone, S. F. E. Oliviero
Nature Physics 21, 2002–2008 (2025) [PDF]
Conferences: QIP 2025; TQC 2024; BIID 2024; QTML 2024; QCTiP 2025; AQIS 2024; YQIS 2024; Towards Infinite Dimension and Beyond in Quantum Information (24w5274) 2024 (invited speaker); QMATH16 2025
2). Maximum tolerable excess noise in continuous-variable quantum key distribution and improved lower bound on two-way capacities
F. A. Mele, L. Lami, V. Giovannetti
Nature Photonics 19, 329–334 (2025) [PDF]
Conferences: TQC 2023
Best poster prize at BIID 2023
3). Computable Entanglement Cost under Positive Partial Transpose Operations
L. Lami*, F. A. Mele*, B. Regula* (* = alphabetical order)
Physical Review Letters 134, 090202 (2025) [PDF]
Conferences: QIP 2025; BIID 2024; SRS Quantum Information 2024; Additivity Problems in Quantum and Classical Information Theory (BIRS) 2026
4). Restoring quantum communication efficiency over high loss optical fibers
F. A. Mele, L. Lami, V. Giovannetti
Physical Review Letters 129 (18), 180501 (2022) [PDF]
Conferences: BIID 2022; DPG conference 2022; highlighted poster at QIP 2023
Research highlight in Nature Italy
5). Random purification channel made simple
F. Girardi, F. A. Mele, L. Lami
Physical Review Letters [Editors' Suggestion] (accepted) — 23 October 2026; arXiv:2511.23451 (2025) [DOI] [PDF]
Conferences: BIID 2026
6). Symplectic rank of non-Gaussian quantum states
F. A. Mele, S. F. E. Oliviero, V. Upreti, U. Chabaud
PRX Quantum 7, 020366 (2026) [PDF]
Conferences: Quantum Resources 2026 (accepted but not presented); Many-Body Quantum Magic 2025; QMATH16 2025
7). Complexity of quantum tomography from genuine non-Gaussian entanglement
X. Zhao, P. Liao, F. A. Mele, U. Chabaud, Q. Zhuang
Nature Communications 17, 373 (2026) [PDF]
8). Optimal estimates of trace distance between bosonic Gaussian states and applications to learning
L. Bittel, F. A. Mele, A. A. Mele, S. Tirone, L. Lami
Quantum 9, 1769 (2025) [PDF]
Conferences: QIP 2025; QCTiP 2025; YQIS 2024; QMATH16 2025
9). Optical fibres with memory effects and their quantum communication capacities
F. A. Mele, G. De Palma, M. Fanizza, V. Giovannetti, L. Lami
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 70, no. 12, pp. 8844–8869 (2024) [PDF]
10). Achievable rates in non-asymptotic bosonic quantum communication
F. A. Mele, G. Barbarino, V. Giovannetti, M. Fanizza
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Early Access, 2026) [DOI] [PDF]
11). Quantum communication on the bosonic loss-dephasing channel
F. A. Mele, F. Salek, V. Giovannetti, L. Lami
Physical Review A 110, 012460 (2024) [PDF]
Conferences: TQC 2024; BIID 2024 (accepted but not presented); AQIS 2024
12). Quantum optical communication in the presence of strong attenuation noise
F. A. Mele, L. Lami, V. Giovannetti
Physical Review A 106 (4), 042437 (2022) [PDF]
Conferences: BIID 2022; DPG conference 2022; highlighted poster at QIP 2023
13). Optimising quantum data hiding
F. A. Mele, L. Lami
arXiv:2510.03538 (2025) [PDF]
Conferences: QIP 2026; Quantum Resources 2026
14). Is it Gaussian? Testing bosonic quantum states
F. Girardi, F. Witteveen, F. A. Mele, L. Bittel, S. F. E. Oliviero, D. Gross, M. Walter
arXiv:2510.07305 (2025) [PDF]
Conferences: QIP 2026; QCTiP 2026
15). Efficient learning of bosonic Gaussian unitaries
M. Fanizza, V. Iyer, J. Lee, A. A. Mele, F. A. Mele
arXiv:2510.05531 (2025) [PDF]
Conferences: QIP 2026
16). Nearly optimal algorithms to learn sparse quantum Hamiltonians in physically motivated distances
A. Abbas*, N. Cerrato*, F. Escudero Gutiérrez*, D. Grinko*, F. A. Mele*, P. Sinha* (* = alphabetical order)
arXiv:2509.09813 (2025) [PDF]
Conferences: TQC 2026
17). Advances in quantum learning theory with bosonic systems
F. A. Mele
Il Nuovo Cimento C 49, 137 (2026) [PDF]
I was motivated to write this paper by the Italian Physical Society, which invited me to publish it in the journal Il Nuovo Cimento C, following an award I received for one of the best talks at the 2025 Italian Physical Society Conference in the lovely Palermo.
18). Random Stinespring superchannel: converting channel queries into dilation isometry queries
F. Girardi*, F. A. Mele*, H. Zhao*, M. Fanizza°, L. Lami° (*, ° = equal contributors)
arXiv:2512.20599 (2025) [PDF]
Conferences: Random Purification Channel (STOC Workshop) 2026
19). What resources are needed for optimal learning of bosonic Gaussian states?
S. Chen, F. A. Mele, M. Fanizza, A. Li, Z. Mann, H.-Y. Huang, Y. Chen, and J. Preskill
arXiv:2603.18136 (2026) [PDF]
Conferences: Random Purification Channel (STOC Workshop) 2026
20). Energy-constrained two-way capacities of the pure-loss channel
A. Falco, F. A. Mele, L. Lami, V. Giovannetti
arXiv:2610.12365 (2026) [PDF]
21). Universal Entanglement Distillation
S. Tirone, F. A. Mele, V. Giovannetti, L. Lami
arXiv:2609.40080 (2026) [PDF]
22). Exponential separation in sensing continuous signals via squeezing
F. A. Mele*, N. Meister*, H. Zhao, S. Chen, H.-Y. Huang (* = equal contributors)
arXiv:2609.38678 (2026) [PDF]
23). Towards verifiable quantum advantage with random circuits: Observables that survive concentration
A. A. Mele*, F. A. Mele*, J. R. McClean, T. E. O'Brien (* = equal contributors)
arXiv:2609.37890 (2026) [PDF]
24). When are bosonic Gaussian states classical to learn?
S. Chen*, A. A. Mele*, F. A. Mele*, J. Preskill* (* = alphabetical order)
arXiv:2609.26705 (2026) [PDF]
25). Bosonic quantum communication beyond the thermal threshold
F. A. Mele, G. Catalano, M. Fanizza, V. Giovannetti, L. Lami
arXiv:2607.27449 (2026) [PDF]
26). Optimal tomography of bosonic and fermionic Gaussian states
S. Chen*, M. Fanizza*, F. Girardi*, L. Lami*, F. A. Mele*, M. Walter*, F. Witteveen* (* = alphabetical order)
arXiv:2607.11847 (2026) [PDF]
27). Convex combinations of bosonic pure-loss channels
G. Catalano, M. Fanizza, F. A. Mele, G. De Palma, V. Giovannetti
arXiv:2604.26874 (2026) [PDF]
28). Random purification channel for passive Gaussian bosons
F. A. Mele, F. Girardi, S. Chen, M. Fanizza, L. Lami
arXiv:2512.16878 (2025) [PDF]
29). Energy-independent tomography of Gaussian states
L. Bittel, F. A. Mele, J. Eisert, A. A. Mele
arXiv:2508.14979 (2025) [PDF]
30). Extracting energy via bosonic Gaussian operations
F. E. Q. Rodriguez, F. A. Mele, S. F. E. Oliviero, V. Giovannetti, L. Lami, V. Cavina
arXiv:2503.21748 (2025) [PDF]
31). Non-asymptotic quantum communication on lossy transmission lines with memory
F. A. Mele, G. Barbarino, V. Giovannetti, M. Fanizza
arXiv:2503.13207 (2025) [PDF]