New Quantum Resources and Quantum Thermodynamics

Submitted by michal.horodec… on Thu, 05/06/2021 - 00:13
University
University of Gdańsk
Faculty/school/department
Internationl Centre for Theory of Quantum Technologies
Size of the team
number of researchers number of supporting staff number of PhD students
5
1
3
PI
PI name
Michal Horodecki
PI email
michal.horodecki@ug.edu.pl
PI bio

Michal Horodecki https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0446-3059  is a co-founder of entanglement theory. His most recognized achievements are co-discovering bound entanglement, and quantum state merging. Author of about 140 publications. He also worked on random quantum circuits and quantum cryptography. Recently he was involved in quantum thermodynamics, developing the so called resource theory of thermodynamics. His present interests include quantum thermal machines and open quantum systems.

 

Contact person and e-mail
Contact person
Michal Horodecki
Contact person e-mail
michal.horodecki@ug.edu.pl
Short description of research profile

The group New Quantum Resources and Quantum Thermodynamics deals with a broad spectrum of topics, related to such resources as nonlocality/contextuality, entanglement, randomness, random quantum circuits and others.
 
Specific research tasks of the group include:

  • Thermal operations
  • The notion of work in micro regime
  • Dynamical description of thermal quantum machines
  • Limitations of Markovian evolution
  • Contextuality/nonlocality
  • Quantum gates, t-designs, random circuits
  • Port based teleportation
  • Quantum error correction
  • Randomness amplification/extraction, secret key extraction
  • Bell inequalities
     
Research area
NATURAL SCIENCES » Physical sciences and astronomy
Scientific Themes (keywords)
entanglement
thermodynamics
open systems
quantum circuits
Publications

Representative publications

Thermodynamics of Minimal Coupling Quantum Heat Engines, Marcin Łobejko, Paweł Mazurek, Michał Horodecki, Quantum 4, 375 (2020) https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2020-12-23-375
Optimal Port-based Teleportation, Marek Mozrzymas, Michał Studziński, Sergii Strelchuk, Michał Horodecki,  New Journal of Physics 20.5 (2018): 053006 https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.08456  
Efficient Quantum Pseudorandomness, Fernando G.S.L. Brandao, Aram W. Harrow, Michal Horodeck, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 170502 (2016) https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.00713
Fundamental limitations for quantum and nano thermodynamics, Michał Horodecki, Jonathan Oppenheim,  Nature Communications 4, 2059 (2013) https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.3834
An area law for entanglement from exponential decay of correlations, Fernando G.S.L. Brandao, Michal Horodecki, Nature Physics 9, 721 (2013) https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.3789