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Latest news

• Upcoming outreach event, organized by NQSTI, Spoke 9: Quantum Music Festival 2025, 15 November (MA, Catania); 20 November (Spazio Franco, Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, Palermo).    
• RLF delivers a plenary talk about "Science and Innovation in Quantum Technologies" for all the PhD students of the University of Palermo, organized by the Doctoral School, on October 6th, 2025. 
• A post is out for the Weekly Quantum activity, NQSTI, within the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology 2025. Word of the week: Entanglement.   ​
• Check a paper published in PRX Quantum, where we introduce a controllable and comprehensive scheme capable of generating relevant classes of many-particle entangled states via spatial indistinguishability of identical particles. 
• A paper, in collaboration with the group of Roberto Morandotti at INRS, Montreal, Canada, and colleagues from other institutions in Germany and Japan, is now published in Nature Photonics. This work presents a scalable quantum processor based on the discrete-time quantum walk of time-bin-entangled photon pairs on synthetic temporal photonic lattices implemented on a coupled fibre-loop system. ​
• RLF is recipient of the "Science Dissemination Award 2023" from the University of Palermo. 
• Our recent publication in Advanced Quantum Technologies,  Robust engineering of maximally entangled states by identical particle interferometry, is highlighted by the back cover of the journal. 
• We have recently provided proof-of-principle that Indistinguishability of bosonic and fermionic quantum probes enhances metrological tasks differently. To discover more, you can read the freshly released paper, fully open access, in PNAS. There is also a story in Kudos. The results have been obtained in collaboration with the experimental quantum optics group at USTC (China), and other theoretical colleagues at University of Nottingham (UK), Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), and Ulm University (Germany).​
• If you want to know more about the possibility to directly proving the bosonic nature of photons, you can read the News & Views article by RLF on Nature Photonics. Also, we have realized a new experiment, in collaboration with USTC (China), for a direct detection of the particle exchange phase using photons. This work has been published in Physical Review Applied.
• RLF has been awarded as 2021 APS Outstanding Referee for the American Physical Society (APS). 
• Our last research on robust entanglement preparation against noise by controlling spatial indistinguishability of quantum particles, published in npj Quantum information. These results suggest that quantum indistinguishability behaves as an inherent control for noise-free entanglement generation. 
• Indistinguishability of subsystems is a direct resource exploitable for quantum information processing by entanglement. Find this recent work of ours on Physical Review Letters. Featured stories: Physics World, Phys.org.
• The Special Issue on our Discussion Meeting Foundations of quantum mechanics and their impact on contemporary society finally out on Phil. Trans. Royal Society A.
• In December 2017 we hosted a Meeting at The Royal Society London on Quantum Foundations and their impact on contemporary society. Read the blog on the event!
• We show the new phenomenon of "wave-particle duality action at a distance" in an all-optical experiment . The complementarity principle does a further step ahead! Find it in Nature Communications.
• Check the new book: Lectures on General Quantum Correlations and their Applications, Springer publishing.
• Read our paper on Schmidt decomposition made universal to unveil entanglement of indistinguishable particles. Find it open access in Scientific Reports. A popular story is in Phys.org and in 2Physics.com, presenting key developments in physics.
• Read a story RLF wrote for Quanta Rei about the making of the work on frozen quantum coherence in NMR. Pictures and curiosities can be found there!
• Quantum coherence frozen forever, or almost. Our new theoretical-experimental work on preservation of quantum coherence and correlations in a NMR quantum simulator is out on Physical Review Letters. Featured in: "Flash Physics" of Physics World; Phys.org; International Business Times. More on media.
• Stories about our work on determining quantum entanglement of identical particles by standard information-theoretic notions, published on Scientific Reports. Check: Physics World and Phys.org! Also: 2Physics.com, presenting key developments in physics. More on Media. ​​​

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​Editorial Board Membership

• RLF is Section Editor-in-Chief of Entropy (MDPI publishing, Switzerland) for the Section Quantum Information.
• RLF is member of the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports (Springer Nature) for the area Quantum Physics.​
• RLF is member of the Editorial Board of Applied Sciences (MDPI publishing, Switzerland) for the Section Quantum Science and Technology.

Teaching (University of Palermo)

• Physics II, Bachelor Degree (BD) in Energy and Renewable Sources Engineering​.
• Physics II, Bachelor Degree (BD) in Electric Engineering for E-mobility. 
• Physics II, Bachelor Degree (BD) in Engineering of Cybernetics and Automata​.
• Physics I, Bachelor Degree (BD) in Engineering of Cybernetics and Automata​.
• Physics I, BD in Biomedical Engineering
• ​General Physics, BD in Environmental Sciences
• Statistics, BD in Biology
• Physics Applied to Biology, BD in Biology
• Rational Mechanics, BD in Environmental Engineering 
• Tutor of Physics, Faculty of Science

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