C. QUANTUM SIMULATORS, CRYPTOGRAPHY, AND COMPUTATION
1. Simulation and modelling of quantum many body systems and quantum computers.
Contact person:
Vittorio Giovannetti
For the simulation of many body systems we use DMRG and tensor network methods.
2. Study of quantum protocols for communication over quantum channels.
Contact person:
Vittorio Giovannetti
3. Open quantum system dynamics. Theoretical study of properties of quantum channels.
Contact person:
Vittorio Giovannetti
How one can improve their performances in transferring quantum correlations by means of proper encondings. Non-Markovian effect in communications. Cascade quantum system dynamics and control.
4. Study of the interplay between quantum mechanics, information theory, and non-equilibrium thermodynamics in many body systems.
Contact person:
Vittorio Giovannetti
Alessandro Braggio
5. Bose-Einstein condensates of intersubband polaritons.
Contact person:
Alessandro Tredicucci
Semiconductor heterostructures embedded in novel microcavity designs (either based on LC circuits or photonic crystals) are being realized and investigated (with ultrafast spectroscopy in the mid-infrared to THz frequency range) to demonstrate Bose Einstein condensation of untersubband polaritons, even at elevated temperature.
6. Development of schemes for the simulation of many-body systems and Hamiltonians based on the use of exchange-coupled molecular spin clusters.
Contact person:
Marco Affronte
7. Experimental investigation (through pulsed EPR) and theoretical simulation of the hyperfine induced decoherence in molecular spin clusters, with the inclusion of non-Markovian effects.
Contact person:
Marco Affronte