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Best poster award -
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Alessia Castellini won the Best Poster Award for her presentation during the 12th Italian Quantum Information Science Conference (IQIS2019), 9-12 September 2019, Milan, Italy. The poster explained our recent paper Indistinguishability-enabled coherence for quantum metrology, published in Phys. Rev. A 100, 012308 (2019). Congratulations, Alessia!
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Top reviewer in Physics and Cross-Field 2019 |
RLF is the recipient of the Peer Review Award by Publons, for being on the top 1% of peer reviewers in the field of Physics and Cross-Field in 2019.
Publons, following the Peer Review Week, pays homage to the highest achievers in peer review each year. |
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Are identical quantum twins distinguishable? |
We have been invited to write a layman article about our work: Dealing with indistinguishable particles and their entanglement, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 376, 20170317 (2018). The article, with some funny stories inside, is published by the popular scientific magazine Atlas of Science.
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Disseminating research at "EsperienzaInsegna 2019" |
Our group is involved in disseminating research on quantum information and quantum computing during the popular science festival "EsperienzaInsegna 2019", 26-28 February 2019, Viale delle Scienze, Edificio 19, Università di Palermo. RLF is also invited to discuss about issues linked to technological change within an interactive conference.
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Unexpected consequences at a
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RLF's talk at TEDxCarini focused on the technological consequences of the very properties of quantum systems. The event was held at the Castle of Carini, Palermo, Italy, on November 25th, 2018. That was a very nice experience amongst various interesting talks. Thanks and congrats to the organisers! The video of the talk is available on YouTube TEDx channel. Also on TED.com.
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Top reviewer for Physics 2018 |
RLF is the recipient of the Peer Review Award by Publons, for being on the top 1% of peer reviewers in the field of Physics in 2018.
Publons, following the Peer Review Week, pays homage to the highest achievers in peer review each year. Here is the certificate. |
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At the Royal Society Soirée 2018 |
Amazing scientific and social experience during the Summer Exhibition Royal Society Soirée on 4th July, 2018. Representing our Discussion Meeting "Foundations of quantum mechnics and their impact on contemporary society".
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Spatial overlap leads to useful quantum entanglement, say physicists
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Hamish Johnston, the general-physics editor of Physics World, writes an article on our work on the operational entanglement of independently prepared identical particles exploited by sLOCC within the spatial overlap region. Find the full story here. This was the headline of Physics World on 26 June 2018.
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Future quantum technologies may exploit identical particle entanglement
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Our recent work, where we show that entanglement of independently prepared identical particles can be directly exploited by sLOCC provided that the particles spatially overlap, was covered in a story by Lisa Zyga on Phys.org. Find the full story here.
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Plenary talks at the event "On a Quantum Future: History and Society" |
Within an internationalisation project (CoRI) founded by the University of Palermo, we organised a plenary session of seminars with speakers: Gerardo Adesso (University of Nottingham, UK) and Andreas Winter (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain). The event (28 May 2018) was a great occasion to disseminate to a broad audience the history behind the foundations of quantum mechanics and the state-of-art concerning quantum technologies. Many thanks to the speakers and the students for their contributions!
Photos of the event can be found here. |
[image courtesy of Gabriela Barreto Lemos and Victoria Borish]
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Foundations of quantum mechanics and their impact on contemporary society |
On 11-12 December 2017 we hosted a Meeting at The Royal Society in London on Quantum Foundations and their impact on contemporary society. It was a great occasion of open discussions, understanding the state-of-art on the basic principles of quantum theory and the technological directions on the way. Read the blog on the event!
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Laser Physics Letters 2017 Highlights (IOP) |
Our work on Protecting entanglement by adjusting the velocities of moving qubits inside non-Markovian environments, has been selected for the 2017 Highlights Collection of the journal. The Highlights Collection is a selection of interesting and stimulating works published in the journal.
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Wave-particle duality action at a distance observed in a state of photons |
Our theoretical-experimental research, published in Nature Communications, describes how photons can become entangled in their wave-particle behaviors, something unseen before. Coverage: Ansa, AteneoNews, Sapienza Università di Roma, NatureResearch, ilsitodisicilia, altri media. ResearchItaly, the portal of Italian research cared by the national university and research ministry (MIUR), covers our research in section Success Stories.
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Our research appears on Italian newspaper |
Our results about the new approach to identical particles and their entanglement, included the scientific meeting we are organising at the Royal Society, covered in a story on a page of the Italian newspaper "laRepubblica" (Palermo - 2 November 2017).
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Top reviewer for Physics and Astronomy 2017 |
RLF is the recipient of the Top Reviewer Award for Physics and Astronomy by Publons, for being one of the top 1% of peer reviewers in the field of Physics and Astronomy in 2017. Publons, following the Peer Review Week 2016, pays homage to the highest achievers in peer review each year. Here is the certificate.
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Schmidt decomposition made universal to unveil the entanglement of identical particles |
Our demonstration that the standard quantum mechanics tool known as the Schmidt decomposition is universal, being applicable to both nonidentical and identical particles, covered in a semi-popular article for 2Physics.com, the web-magazine presenting key developments and breakthroughs in physics.
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Physicists settle controversy over identical particle entanglement |
A popular story posted on Phys.org about our recent research on the universality of Schmidt decomposition, which is thus valid for both indistinguishable and distinguishable particles. Going further into the subtleties of systems of identical particles.
This story was the day's top story of Phys.org! Also featured in AteneoNews, NatureResearch, Scientific Reports Twitter page |
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Awarded as Sentinel of Science 2016 by Publons, after Peer Review Week |
RLF is the recipient of the Sentinel of Science Award by Publons, for being among the top 10% of reviewers (ranked 3rd) in the field of Physics and Astronomy for 2016. Publons launched the Sentinels of Science Awards, following the Peer Review Week 2016, to pay homage to the highest achievers in peer review each year. Here is the certificate.
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Can we freeze something at room temperature? Yes, quantum coherence! |
Read a story RLF wrote for Quanta Rei, about the making of the experimental work on frozen quantum coherence in nuclear magnetic resonance. Pictures and curiosities can be found there!
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A popular radio interview in Palermo: Radio In |
RLF was interviewed by a popular radio transmission "L'altroparlante" of Radioin Palermo (interview in Italian), speaking about quantum research, teleportation and music. Here is the link to the video (qui trovate il collegamento al video).
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Long-Lasting Quantum Coherence Observed |
The observation of long-lived quantum coherence is also covered in an article on International Business Times, United States. Give it a read!
- This news also locally covered by AteneoNews at the Università di Palermo. |
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Quantum coherence lasts forever, almost
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The experiment on frozen coherence also got a story on Flash Physics, the daily pick of the latest need-to-know developments from the global physics community selected by Physics World's team of editors and reporters. Read it here!
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Forever quantum: Physicists demonstrate everlasting quantum coherence
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Our experimental observation of frozen quantum coherence in a nuclear magnetic resonance quantum simulator, published in Physical Review Letters, covered by a feature story in Phys.org. It was the top story of its day!
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A new approach to quantum entanglement for identical particles |
Our fresh work on a new straightforward approach to treat entanglement for identical particles continues hitting the web. Here is a semi-popular invited article published in 2Physics.com, the popular web-magazine presenting key developments and breakthroughs in physics.
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Physics World publishes a story on our work about a new approach to determine quantum entanglement of identical particles within standard notions adopted in quantum information theory for distinguishable particles.
- These news covered by University of Palermo press office (AteneoNews) and by Younipa. |
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Entanglement for identical particles doesn't follow textbook rules
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Our recent work on entanglement of identical particles by standard information-theoretic notions, published in Scientific Reports, covered by a story in Phys.org. This was the top story of its day and one of the top stories of its week. Enjoy the reading!
- Our work is on the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric. |
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Entanglement for identical particles |
Our work featured on the Italian edition of Scientific American, Le Scienze.
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Top reviewer
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Fresh news that I am one of the Top 10 Reviewers for 2015 of the journal Quantum Information Processing (Springer).
- Also acknowledged for reviewing for the journal Entropy. |
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Perspective on Quantum
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RLF's recent invited perspective article regarding the control of non-Markovianity in an open quantum system, published in New Journal of Physics on August 25th 2015. Enjoy the reading!
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Entanglement lifetime extended orders of magnitude using coupled cavities 
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Our research on efficiently protecting quantum resources from decay by a simple cavity-based structure, published in Scientific Reports, covered on Phys.org and selected in the Best of the Week!
- Also in a Reddit thread, Unipa, Younipa, Libertà di Frequenza, Liquida. |
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Universal freezing of quantum correlations |
A story on our discovery of the universality of quantum correlation freezing, published in Scientific Reports, posted on Phys.org and selected in the Week's Top Stories! Also featured in: Younipa, Unipa highlights & Liquida.
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Local recovery of entanglement in classical environments
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Our theoretical-experimental work on the entanglement recovery by local operations, appeared in Scientific Reports, featured in Unipa highlights, Uninsubria press, Mathpubs
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Unifying correlations by a Bures distance |
Quite fun that Figure 1 of our recent paper on unifying bipartite correlations by Bures distance, published in J. Phys. A, was selected as the cover of the Volume 47, Number 40, 10 October 2014, of the journal.
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Preserving entanglement by dynamical decoupling in the solid state |
Our paper published in Phys. Rev. B 90, 054304 (2014), on entanglement and nonlocality protection by dynamical decoupling based on pulse sequences on superconducting qubits, featured in Le Scienze.
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Experimental observation of entanglement revivals in a classical environment |
Our theoretical-experimental work on the phenomenon of quantum entanglement revivals in the presence of local classical environments, published in Nature Communications, was the overall most viewed article in the first week among the articles published on November 29, 2013, in the same journal. Moreover, it has been covered in other media outlets and national popular newspapers:
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Comparing
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Our paper on the comparison of two criteria to quantify non-Markovianity in a system made of a qubit subject to a random external classical field, was selected for the Physica Scripta Highlights of 2013, a collection celebrating the most influential research published in the journal in 2013.
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Entanglement dynamics of quantum dots on the highlights |
Our manuscript on entanglement dynamics of two independent cavity-embedded quantum dots, published in Physica Scripta T143, 014004 (2011), was chosen as featured article by IOPScience for its quality and recency (best of 2011).
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New Journal of Physics outstanding
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The Editor-in-chief of New Journal of Physics (IOP publishing group), Prof. Eberhard Bodenschatz, awards RLF as an outstanding reviewer, "in grateful recognition of prolific, high-calibre and unhesitating service as a referee for New Journal of Physics in 2014".
Click on the image above for the PDF. |
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Annals of Physics referee award |
The journal Annals of Physics (Elsevier publishing group) awards RLF in May 2014 as an outstanding reviewer. Click on the image above for the PDF.
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Reading suggestion for
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RLF contributed with reading suggestions to the July 26th 2015 issue of "La Lettura" for the national newspaper Corriere Della Sera.
Click on the image above to get the original PDF. |
