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News
2024
Aug 5 -- A wonderful collaboration with Ricardo Puebla from Universidad Carlos III is out today in arXiv! Check this out!
Jul 23 -- Cheers to Ángel Fernández-Sánchez for defending his Bachelor thesis on Manipulating Majorana Fermions in a quantum cavity.
Jul 23 -- Congratulations to Cristhian Vega for defending his Master's thesis on Entanglement spectrum in photonic systems.
Jul 2 -- Congratulations to Miguel Santos-Pascual for defending his Bachelor thesis on Variational Quantum Algorithms!
Apr 22 -- Our first QCAYLE preprint is out today on arXiv [quant-ph]. More details here!
Apr 9 -- Our Chapter book titled: "Vulnerability of Quantum Information Systems to Collective Manipulation" has been published in Intechopen.
Mar 27 -- We invite you to participate in the Entropy Special Issue: "Non-Equilibrium Quantum Many-Body Dynamics". The deadline for manuscript submissions is October 20, 2024.
Mar 25 -- The website for the Entropy Special Issue: "Non-Equilibrium Quantum Many-Body Dynamics" is already up!
Mar 3 -- Join Ricardo Puebla, Fernando has been invited to participate in the Special Issue: "Non-Equilibrium Quantum Many-Body Dynamics" in Entropy Journal as a Guest Editor.
From Jan 29 to Feb 19 -- Fernando was teaching the lectures on Advanced Quantum Optics in the UVa Master in Physics program.
Jan -- 1 Happy New Year 2024!
2023
Nov 30 -- Our recently published paper in Nature Physics has been featured in the Puntos de Interés section of the Spanish Journal of Physics. They have chosen my schematic image as the journal cover. Check it out!
Nov 22 -- Fernando spoke at the "IV RedCAYLE Technical Conference." The slides for "Introduction to Quantum Computing Hardware and Software" will be available soon here!
Nov 17 -- Fernando spoke at the "Semana de la Ciencia CSIC". The slides for "Software y Hardware en un Ordenador Cuántico" will be available soon here!
Nov 15 -- Our work "Energy transfer in N-component nanosystems enhanced by pulse-driven vibronic many-body entanglement" was published by Scientific Reports.
Nov 14 -- Fernando spoke at the "Semana de la Ciencia en Castilla y León" at Universidad de Valladolid. The slides for "Software y Hardware en un Ordenador Cuántico" will be available soon here!
Oct 17 -- Congratulations to Santiago Higuera-Quintero, the first author of our work, "Experimental Validation of the Kibble-Zurek Mechanism on a Digital Quantum Computer." Santiago has been awarded Magna Cum Laude at the Universidad de los Andes.
Oct 11 -- Fernando spoke at the Condensed Matter seminar at Universidad de Los Andes. The slides for "Engineering Quantum Boltzmann States through Variational Quantum Algorithms" will be available soon here!
Oct 1 -- Exciting news! Fernando has taken on the role of Senior Postdoctoral Researcher in Valladolid. He will be working on the Q-CAYLE project.
Sep 25 -- Our work "Kibble–Zurek mechanism of Ising domains" has been featured in Nature Physics! For further details, you can read the note here!
Sep 19-20 -- Fernando attended the first kickoff meeting of Spain's complementary plan for quantum communication, which was coordinated by the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
Aug 23 -- Our recent work, which was published in Nature Physics, has been showcased in the CSIC press release. For further details, you can read the note here!
Aug 3 -- Our work has been featured in mappingignorance: "Validity of the Kibble-Zurek Mechanism for Ising Domains."
Jul 23 - 28 -- Santiago Higuera-Quintero presented our work "Experimental validation of the Kibble-Zurek mechanism on a digital quantum computer" at the conference "Applications of Ultracold Rydberg Gases". The poster is available here!
Jun 30 -- If you want to know more about our recent publication in Nature Physics. We encapsulated the main ideas in the following post! Click 👉🏻 https://quinfog.hbar.es/news/kibble-zurek-mechanism-of-ising-domains/
Jun 27 -- 🥁🥁 Big news and achievement unlocked!!! 🥁🥁 Our work "Kibble–Zurek mechanism of Ising domains" was published by Nature Physics!
Jun 2 -- Alongside Pablo Diez-Valle, Fernando spoke at the Science and Technology Day at IES Guadarrama. The title of the informative talk was "From Classical to Quantum Computing: Where Do We Stand and What Can We Expect?" Following this, they took part in the roundtable colloquium with Pedro A. Serena and Miguel Antonio Peña, researchers from CSIC (Spanish National Research Council).
May 12 -- Fernando speaks at the Math-Physics seminar at Universidad de Valladolid. The slides for "From Kibble-Zurek Mechanism to Coherent Quantum Computing: Recent Experimental Works and Challenges Ahead" are available here!
Apr 11 -- Fernando attended the school "Spring School on Superconducting Qubit Technology" at Benasque Science Center (CCBBPP) [from Apr 11 to Apr 21].
Mar 29 -- Fernando speaks at a "Sesión 4º de E.S.O + empresa" at Instituto de Física Fundamental -- CSIC.
Mar 2 -- Our work "Experimental validation of the Kibble-Zurek mechanism on a digital quantum computer" has been covered by the Spain Journal of Physics as a "Punto de Interés". Cheers
Jan 19 -- Happy Year Of The Rabbit! 祝您兔年愉快!
Jan 11 -- Fernando visited the Universidad de los Andes - Bogotá.
Jan -- 1 Happy New Year 2023!
2022
Nov 23 -- Fernando speaks at a "XXV Semana de Enseñanza de la Física". The slides for "¿Cómo Funcionan los Computadores Cuánticos?" are available here!
Nov 16 -- Fernando speaks at a "Semana de la Ciencia y Tecnología en el CSIC". The slides for "Desarmando un computador cuántico, ¿Qué tiene por dentro esta caja?" are available here!
Oct 25 -- Congratulations to Santiago Higuera-Quintero bachelor's student at UniAndes for his first author paper. Our work was published on Frontiers in Quantum Science and Technology. Check it out!
Oct 23 -- Fernando attended Madrid's race of science, which operated in a 10 km close circuit around CSIC. You can find some race moments' on the "Corredora" website! The runner's pics are 69, 70, and 71!
Oct 11 -- Cheers to Adolfo del Campo and Hai-Qing Zhang, our work "Locality of spontaneous symmetry breaking and universal spacing distribution of topological defects formed across a phase transition" was published on Phys. Rev. B as a Letter. Check it out!
Oct 10 -- Our work "Role of boundary conditions in the full counting statistics of topological defects after crossing a continuous phase transition" was published by Phys. Rev. B. Check it out!
Aug 16 -- Fernando speaks at a virtual Condensed Matter Seminar -- Uniandes. The slides for Kibble-Zurek Mechanism of Ising Domains will be available soon. Here.
Aug 3 -- Achievement unlocked! My first last-author preprints landed on ArXiv last night. I'm so happy to share it with you! This work was done in collaboration with S. Higuera-Quintero bachelor's student at @FisicaUniandes. Check it out!
Jul 17 -- Fernando attend the workshop "Quantum Science: Implementations" at Benasque Science Center (CCBBPP) [from Jul 17 to Jul 30].
Jul 11 -- Finally, our work "Role of Boundary Conditions in the Full Counting Statistics of Topological Defects after Crossing a Continuous Phase Transition" is out in arXiv. Check it out!
Jul 5 -- Fernando presented "Introduction to Critical Phenomena in Complex Networks" at QUINFOG's Journal Club. The slides are available here!
May 10 -- If you want to know more about our recent publication in Physical Review Research. We encapsulated the main ideas in the following post! Click 👉🏻 https://quinfog.hbar.es/news/the-spin-vector-langevin-model/
May 9 -- Our work "Benchmarking quantum annealing dynamics: The spin-vector Langevin model" was published by Physical Review Research. Check it out! Congratulations David!!
Mar 15 -- Fernando presented on "Benchmarking quantum annealing dynamics: the Spin-Vector Langevin model" at the poster season at the APS March Meeting 2022 -- Chicago. The poster is available here! Cheers!!
Mar 14 -- Talk on "Beyond the Kibble-Zurek mechanism" at the APS March Meeting 2022 --Chicago. The slides for this talk are available here!
Feb 25 -- Cheers to Adolfo del Campo and Hai-Qing Zhang for our "Locality of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Universal Spacing Distribution of Topological Defects Formed Across a Phase Transition". Our preprint is out in arXiv today. Check it out!
Feb 24 -- Fernando speaks at a virtual physics colloquium -- Tecnológico de Monterrey. The slides for "Is it possible to estimate the distribution of topological defects in magnetic systems in the same way as in cosmological systems?" are available here. Thanks to Luisa Chaparro for the invitation!
Feb 11 -- Now, you can meet the teams on our project AVaQus. Check this out!
Feb 1 -- Fernando speaks at a virtual Condensed Matter Seminar -- Uniandes. The slides for EXACT THERMAL PROPERTIES OF INTEGRABLE SPIN CHAINS are available here.
Feb 1 -- Fernando begins a new adventure in Madrid (Spain).
Jan 17 -- I am thrilled to announce that I am now taking the next step in my career. I join as a postdoctoral researcher at the QUINFOG group. Quinfog is the Quantum Information and Foundations Group at the Spanish Research Council (CSIC). Led by Juan José García Ripoll and Diego Porras.
Jan -- 1 Happy New Year 2022!
2021
Nov 23 -- Michał Białończyk and Fernando are attending to the 1st edition of the Quantum2021 International Conference (November 23-25, 2021: Bilbao, Spain).
Oct 13 -- Michał Białończyk starts his one-month research stay in DIPC.
Oct 8 -- Fernando attends to Meeting and Workshop on Quantum Science and Technology.
Sep 30 -- I am happy to share with you my LinkedIn profile www.linkedin.com/in/fernando-javier-gomez-ruiz
Sep 23 -- Our work "Uhlmann fidelity and fidelity susceptibility for integrable spin chains at finite temperature: exact results" was published by New Journal of Physics. Check it out!
Sep 21 -- Cheers to Mar Ferri Cortés, who defended successfully her Master thesis on "Many-Body Localization in Open Quantum Systems".
Jul 15 -- Our work "Exact Thermal Properties of free-fermionic spin chains" was published by SciPost Physics. Check it out!
Jul 9 -- Cheers to Ixak Sarasua, who defended successfully his Bachelor thesis on "Spectral Properties of Quantum Spin Networks".
Jun 14-17 -- Fernando attend to 52 Symposium on Mathematical Physics "Channels, Maps and All That".
Jun 10 -- Our beyond the Kibble-Zurek mechanism paper in holographic systems was published by JHEP. Check it out!
Jun 3 -- Our work "Full counting statistics of topological defects after crossing a phase transition" has been featured as a highlight paper in DIPC Annual Report 2020 (PAGE 50).
May 17 -- I am proud to announce that our work "Full Counting Statistics of Topological Defects after Crossing a Phase Transition" has spurred experiments such as atomic Bose gas!!
May 12 -- We extended our results about the thermal properties of integrable spin chains. Now we calculated the exact expressions for the Uhlmann Fidelity and Fidelity Susceptibility. Check our preprint outed in #arXiv today.
Apr 15 -- Fernando starts his three-month research stay at the University of Luxembourg.
Apr 13 -- Finally, My PhD thesis is available in the new Uniandes repository. Check it out here!
Mar 31 -- Excited that our "Exact Thermal Properties of Integrable Spin Chains" preprint is out in arXiv today. Check it out!
Mar 9 -- After a highly successful research DIPC stay, Nicoletta Carabba goes back to Luxembourg. Thanks for visiting!
Mar 2 -- We are happy to announce the Quantum Science and Technology Seminar Website! Cheers!!
Feb 2 -- Fernando speaks at a virtual Condensed Matter Seminar -- Uniandes. The slides for Universal Statistics of Vortices in a Holographic Superconductor are available here.
Jan 8 -- Check out our recent preprint on the "Universal Statistics of Vortices in a Newborn Holographic Superconductor: Beyond the Kibble-Zurek Mechanism".
Jan -- 1 Happy New Year 2021!
2020
Nov 23 -- Talk at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas -- XXIII SEF-2020 on "Beyond the Kibble-Zurek Mechanism", Bogotá, Colombia.
Nov 20 -- Congratulations to Fabio Pablo Méndez-Córdoba, Juan José Méndoza-Arenas, Ferney J. Rodríguez, Carlos Tejedor & Luis Quiroga for our work “Rényi entropy singularities as signatures of topological criticality in coupled photon-fermion systems”. It has been selected as Editors' Suggestions in Physical Review Research.
Nov 12 -- Spain Journal of Physics cover our work of statistics of topological defects.
Sep 11 -- Tokyo Institute of Technology covers our work "Probing the universality of topological defect formation in a quantum annealer: Kibble-Zurek mechanism and beyond" in Bioengineer.org, Scienmag, Eurekalert, & Phys.org.
Aug 18 -- Fernando speaks at a virtual Condensed Matter Seminar -- Uniandes. The slides for Beyond The Kibble-Zurek Mechanism are available here.
Jul 27 -- My PhD Thesis is available on arXiv. Cheers!
Jul 27 -- With 55 new reads, our works was the most read contribution for DIPC on ResearchGate.
Jul 2 -- Visit Altmetric to see the statistics of the impact of our work in social media and the web!
Jul 2 -- Our work has been featured in mappingignorance: "Signatures of universality beyond the mean number of topological defects".
Jul 1 -- Our work has been chosen as the top trending article in PRL for the week of 6-29-2020.
Jun 25 -- University of Groningen covers our work of statistics of topological defects in Science Lync News "New model helps to describe defects and errors in quantum computers" and AAAS EurekAlert!, Infosurhoy, Primeur magazine, Scitechdaily, and Scienmag.
Jun 25 -- Our work has been featured in Physics: "Defect or No Defect: It’s a Toss Up" viewpoint by Smitha Vishveshwara.
Jun 25 -- We begin this adventure, Fernando launches his Google site. Cheers!