Landi’s group

Latest news

• Check out our recent paper by PhD student Wynter Alford on the pseudo modes formalism for describing electronic transport across nanoscale devices. There are many subtleties associated to this approach, and Wynter just solved all of them!
  
  
• Our PhD student Alberto Rosal has been putting forward a comprehensive formalism for describing feedback in continuously measured open quantum systems. This reproduces all known feedback master equations and also allows us to go much further. Check out the list of papers here.
  
  
• Check out our recent paper on analog simulations of the LMG model, done in collaboration with the group of Machiel Blok here in Rochester.
  
  
• Our paper on optimal time estimation and stochastic clocks has just been published on PRX.
  
  
• Check out the latest papers from our group’s PhD students at the group publications page.
  
  
• Check out our latest News & Views in Nature Physics about an absolutely gorgeous experiment that took place in Chalmers University, showcasing the use of a 3-qubit absorption refrigerator in superconducting circuits.
  
  
• Our paper on the role of quantum coherence has just been published in PRL.
  
  
• Our paper on thermoelectric devices with minimal current fluctuations has just been published on PRB.
  
  
• Check out our latest preprint on the ergotropic Mpemba effect and anomalous discharging of quantum batteries.
  
  
• Our paper on the Quantum Gillespie algorithm has just been published in PRA.
  
  
• Our paper on Universal Energy Fluctuations in Inelastic Scattering Processes has just been published on PRL.
  
  
• Our paper on Collisional Thermometry with Gaussian Systems, from former group members Gabriel Alves and Marcelo A. F. Santos, has just been published on PRA.
  
  
• Our paper on “What happens to entropy production when conserved quantities fail to commute with each other” has just been published on PRX Quantum. See also the news piece on the New Scientist website.
  
  
• Check out our preprint on time-resolving quantum heat engines. This is part of the PhD work of the brilliant Abhay Hegde here at UofR!
  
  
• Check out our latest paper on how to close the locality loophole of Bell inequality violations in the top quark-anti top quark experiments at the LHC. This is the start of an exciting new collaboration with my colleague Regina Demina.
  
  
• Check out our latest paper pinpointing the role of quantum coherence in Kinetic Uncertainty Relations. This is part of a fruitful collaboration with the Basel group of Patrick Potts, and the brilliant  PhD candidate Kacper Prech.
  
  
• How do we count time using stochastic outcomes? Our latest paper provides the optimal answer. Amazing collaboration with Mark Mitchison, from Trinity College Dublin, who brought up this problem during a KITP program last year. 

• Check our preprint on Collisional Thermometry with Gaussian Systems, from former group members Gabriel Alves and Marcelo A. F. Santos.
  
  
• Check out our  latest preprint on Waiting time statistics for a double quantum dot coupled with an optical cavity. This is part of the masters project of Luis Santos.
  
  
• Check out two ultra-cool new preprints from collaborations with the folks at Trinity College Dublin. The first is about quantum unravellings in the mesoscopic leads approach, with the amazing Laetitia Bettmann, and the second is on universal energy fluctuations in inelastic scattering, with the hero Sam Jacob.
  
  
• Our tutorial on Current fluctuations in continuously monitored quantum system is finally published on PRX Quantum. I think I have never been this proud of a scientific contribution before. Almost 2 years in the making. I really think this will be a very useful resource for students in the future.
  
  
• Check out our latest preprint on queued collision models. This is the first PhD paper of Guilherme Fiusa, and the start of an exciting avenue of research in our group, combining classical queuing theory with quantum dynamics. 
  
  
• Our paper on Fisher information rates of sequentially measured quantum systems was just published in NJP. This is the continuation of a very fruitful collaboration with the group of Steve Campbell at UCD, Dublin.
  
  
• Check out our latest preprint on parameter estimation for quantum jump unraveling, another really exciting study on pushing the boundaries of stochastic sensing.
  
  
• Check out our latest preprint on Fisher information rates in sequentially measured quantum systems. This was a fun collaboration with the group of Prof. Steve Campbell, which is part of our broader program here in Rochester, to further our understanding of metrology with correlated stochastic outcomes.
   
• Check out our latest preprint on Conditional no-jump dynamics of non-interacting quantum chains. This is a collaboration with the group of Prof. Dragi Karevski, from Université de Lorraine, in Nancy, France.
  
  
• Our paper on stochastic metrology has just been published in PRR. Really happy with this. It represents an area of research that I am very interested in and which has much that can be explored.
  
  
• Our paper on particle current statistics in driven mesoscale conductors has just been published as a letter in PRB. I’m really excited about this, as I think it represents an important first step in establishing the full counting statistics of mesoscopic leads and realistic strongly coupled quantum systems.
  
  
• Stoked to have our latest preprint out First Passage Times for Continuous Quantum Measurement Currents. We introduce a novel way to estimate first passage times of stochastic processes emerging from continuous measurements.
  
  
• Check out our latest preprint on Patterns in the jump-channel statistics of open quantum systems.
  
  
• Check out our latest preprint on Stochastic metrology and the empirical distribution. This addresses a question that I have had for a long time: how does our ability to acquire information change if the data is correlated.
  
  
• Check out our latest preprint on “What happens to entropy production when conserved quantities fail to commute with each other.” This was a collaboration with the group of Nicole Yunger Halpern.
  
  
• Our paper on nontrivial effects of dephasing in rectification of spin chains has just been published in PRE.
  
  
• Our paper on the Fisher information of correlated stochastic processes has just been published in NJP. This was a great collaboration with Prof. Felix Binder and the amazing Marco Radaelli from Trinity College Dublin.
  
  
• Was a pleasure to give a colloquium at Iowa State University. Thank you to Profs. Raquel Ribeiro and Paul Canfield for hosting me. You can find the slides from the talk here.
  
  
• Our paper on the entropy of the work distribution has just been published as a letter on PRR. Really proud of this collaboration with my friends in Dublin.
  
  
• Check out our latest preprint on a new Gillespie algorithm for simulating quantum jump trajectories.
  
  
• Really excited to see our tutorial on current fluctuations in open quantum systems finally out. This is a beautiful pedagogical paper connecting fundamental ideas in statistical physics and quantum optics.
  
  
• Check out our latest preprint on two-point measurement energy statistics from particle scattering, with Felipe Barra, Massimiliano Esposito and the brilliant Sam Jacob. 

• Check out the colloquium I recently gave at the University of Rochester about irreversibility, current fluctuations and thermodynamic uncertainty relations in the quantum regime.
  
  
• Really excited to finally see our review on boundary driven models published on Review of Modern Physics.
  
  
• Check out our latest preprint on “Wigner dynamics for quantum gases under inhomogeneous gain and loss processes with dephasing”, done in collaboration with Dragi Karevski and the brilliant Michele Coppola, from Université de Lorraine.
  
  
• Check out our latest preprint on “Entanglement and thermo-kinetic uncertainty relations in coherent mesoscopic transport.” This is a new and fruitful collaboration with the group of Patrick Potts at the University of Basel.
  
  
• Excited to share our latest preprint on Particle current statistics in driven mesoscale conductors. Wonderful collaboration with Marlon Brenes, Dvira Segal, Jens Eisert, Giacomo Guarnieri and Archak Purkayastha. We extended the mesoscopic leads method, which is very useful in simulating strong-coupling quantum transport, to include the full counting statistics of the particle current.
  
  
• It was a pleasure to host Irene D’Amico for a one-day visit to IFUSP. Plenty of productive discussions. A video of her colloquium on Applications of many-body dynamics to quantum technologies can be found here.
  
  
• Check out the talk I gave at the II ICTP-SAIFR Condensed Matter Theory in the Metropolis.
  
  
• Check out the colloquium I gave recently at ORT - Uruguay, and the invited talk at the XVII meeting of the Uruguayan Physical Society.
  
  
• I was listed among the 2% most influential scientists in the “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators” ranking from Elsevier and the University of Stanford. A news piece about it, at the University of São Paulo website, can be found here.
  
  
• Check out our latest paper on the Entropy of the quantum work distribution. This is another collaboration with the group of Prof. Steve Campbell at UCD Dublin.
  
  
• Our paper on diverging current fluctuations in Kerr resonators has just been published in PRA. Really happy to see this one out. Had a lot of fun on this project!
  
  
• Our paper on the “Implementation of a two-stroke quantum heat engine with a collisional model” has just been published in PRA.
  
  
• Check out my talk on “Information & fluctuations in continuously measured systems” at the Quantum Intelligence workshop, organized by Felix Binder in Birr, Ireland.
  
  
• Check out our latest preprint on non-Gaussian work statistics at finite driving. Another great collaboration with the group of Prof. Steve Campbell at UCD. Also, a big shout to the lead author, Dr. Krissia Zawadzki, for her amazing work.
   
• The webpage for this semester’s Quantum Mechanics 2 course is now available!
  
  
• Qulib is now Melt! Revamped and with various new functions. Check out the new website at https://melt1.notion.site/
  
  
• Check out our latest preprint on the non-trivial role of dephasing in graded quantum spin chains.
  
  
• Our paper on the Classical dissipative costs of quantum control has just been published on PRA. This is the first of (hopefully many!) fruitful collaborations with Steve Campbell and Anthony Kiely from UCD Ireland.
  
  
• Our paper on “Quantum quench thermodynamics at high temperatures” has just been published on PRA. This was the final paper in the PhD of Adalberto Varizi. Congratulations Adalberto!
  
  
• Introducing getBib! a silly web app for obtaining the BibTeX of papers from a variety of sources: the paper webpage, the paper title, the DOI or the arXiv ID. Very simple, but I ave found it super useful!