Transport and Information in Quantum Systems
Understanding of Quantum Complex Phenomena plays a key role in the development of Quantum Technologies identified as one of the most strategic areas for future research and innovation.
In this research line, we are devoted to questions related to quantum transport for charge(nanoelectronics), spin (spintronics), energy (thermoelectrics) and information (quantum correlations), with a particular focus on nanostructures. Moreover, we investigate decoherence effects in complex environments, explore quantum probing, and emergent phenomena such as synchronization, with a focus on quantum correlations and thermodynamics and their impact on information processing.
At IFISC we manage both the QTD platform announcing events and positions among the
networks of scientists working on quantum thermodynamics and the QTTS webpage, a society devoted to understanding the thermodynamics of quantum systems and quantum transport.
Researchers
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Rosa Lopez
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David Sánchez
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Llorenç Serra
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Roberta Zambrini
Recent and ongoing Research projects
MAGMA
MAGNETIC TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS FOR ROBUST MAJORANA BOUND STATES
P.I.: Llorenç Serra
Magnetic topological insulators (MTIs) display a fascinating interplay between magnetic order and topologically nontrivial band structures. In the MAGMA project (“Magnetic topological insulators for robust Majorana bound states”), which is funded by ...
CoQHoNet
Connecting Quantum Hopfield Networks
P.I.: Roberta Zambrini
Classical Neural Networks (NNs) are architectures successfully employed in Machine Learning (ML) tasks, such as pattern recognition, analysis of big data, and digitalization. Currently, a full development of quantum technologies is considered ...
QuaResC
Quantum machine learning using reservoir computing
P.I.: Miguel C. Soriano, Roberta Zambrini
The QuaResC project engages in a new collaboration UIB and CSIC researchers at IFISC with the objective to address an interdisciplinary topic between artificial intelligence and quantum physics: quantum machine learning using ...
QuTTNAQMa
TRANSPORTE CUANTICO Y TERMODINAMICA: NUEVAS AVENIDAS EN MATERIALES CUANTICOS
P.I.: Rosa Lopez, Llorenç Serra
The aim of this project is to investigate the heat and energy transport properties in nanoconductors considering complex phenomena due to either many-body interactions and/or the presence of quantum materials.
MdM-IFISC-2
Maria de Maeztu 2023-2026
P.I.: Ernesto Estrada, Ingo Fischer, Emilio Hernández-García, Rosa Lopez, Víctor M. Eguíluz, Claudio Mirasso, Jose Javier Ramasco, Raúl Toral, Roberta Zambrini
After 15 years of its existence, IFISC can point to a proven track record of impactful research. The previous 2018-2022 MdM award has significantly enhanced the institute's capabilities, as demonstrated by an ...
CoQuSy (CSIC)
Complex Quantum Systems: machine learning, thermodynamics, and emergent phenomena
P.I.: Gonzalo Manzano, Roberta Zambrini
CoQuSy is a coordinated project and joins all the researchers at IFISC (belonging either to CSIC or UIB) working in the common line of complex quantum systems. The coordination is motivated by ...
QUAREC
Machine learning with quantum reservoir computing
P.I.: Roberta Zambrini
Project funded by the government of the Balearic Islands with the goal of extending Reservoir Computing into the quantum domain. The project is mainly theoretical/numerical, but also deals with the identification of ...
QTEP
Quantum Technologies Platform
P.I.: Llorenç Serra, Roberta Zambrini
QTEP is a CSIC Interdisciplinary Thematic Platform (PTI). The reference for QTEP is the quantum technologies community that organizes around the Flagship (http://qt.eu) and the Quantum Community Network. This community works on ...
Recent Publications
Reservoir computing in quantum systems
Martínez-Peña, Rodrigo (Supervisors: Zambrini, Roberta; C. Soriano, Miguel)PhD Thesis (2023)
Experimental optical simulator of reconfigurable and complex quantum environment
Renault, P.; Nokkala, J.; Roeland, G.; Joly, N.Y.; Zambrini, R.; Maniscalco,S.; Piilo,J.; Treps,N.; Parigi,V.Physical Review X Quantum , (2023)
Nonequilibrium transition between a continuous and a discrete time-crystal
Cabot, Albert; Giorgi, Gian Luca; Zambrini, RobertaSubmitted (2023)
Conductance asymmetry in proximitized magnetic topological insulator junctions with Majorana modes
Di Miceli, Daniele; Zsurka, Eduard; Legendre, Julian; Moors, Kristof; Schmidt, Thomas L., Serra, LlorençPhysical Review B 108, 35424 (1-11) (2023)
Scalable Photonic Platform for Real-Time Quantum Reservoir Computing
García-Beni, Jorge; Giorgi, Gian Luca; Soriano, Miguel C.; Zambrini, RobertaPhys. Rev. Applied 20, 014051 (2023)
Related News
IFISC (UIB-CSIC) researchers present a new quantum method of pattern classification
June 1, 2023
Researchers at IFISC (UIB-CSIC) have proposed
a novel method for pattern classification using a single nonlinear quantum
oscillator instead of a lattice of spins (bits). The study, published in the
prestigious journal Physical Review Letters, focuses on the implementation of ...
Simulation of collective effects between the qubits of a quantum computer
March 10, 2023
An international team, involving researchers from IFISC (UIB-CSIC) in collaboration with the University of Helsinki, Aalto University and the startup Algorithmiq (Finland), has successfully simulated the collective and dissipative dynamics of two qubits in a real quantum computer. These results ...
IFISC researchers propose a new protocol for data processing with Quantum Reservoir Computing
March 17, 2023
Researchers at IFISC
(UIB-CSIC) propose a new protocol for processing sequential data using quantum
machine learning.The study proposes a
way to efficiently include quantum measurement while preserving the quantum
advantage that characterises these systems.
Researchers at the Institute for ...
Boosting the efficiency of quantum heat engines
May 6, 2022
A team of researchers
from IFISC (UIB-CSIC) has demonstrated that a quantum chiral conductor driven
by an alternating current voltage can operate with efficiencies much higher
than the hitherto insurmountable Carnot limit. In the paper, published in
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A new world down there, finalist in the 2nd UIB Science Communication Competition
Oct. 4, 2021
David Sánchez, researcher at IFISC (UIB-CSIC),
has been selected as a finalist in the 2nd Science Popularisation Competition
organised by the Vice-Rectorate for Innovation and Institutional Relations and
the Unit for Scientific Culture and Innovation of the University of the ...