Valerio Scarani Group
We are a theoretical research group. Our research topics span from foundations to the description of real devices. In the past years, we have contributed to Quantum Key Distribution, Bell Nonlocality and device-independent certification, and the description of optical experiments, with a recent excursion into quantum thermodynamics. Besides continuing research in those topics, we aim at starting new directions in foundations of quantum mechanics and thermodynamics.
More information at our homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/valeriosgroup
Professor
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore
Valerio Scarani joined NUS and CQT in 2007. He was born in Milan, Italy, in 1972. At the moment of choosing his university degree, he opted for physics with the grand dream of understanding the world. After graduating from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 1996, he heard about the birth of quantum information science, but the complexities of life led him to a pragmatic PhD thesis in the same university. So he spent the next four years of his life detecting insanely broad NMR spectra from magnetic nanostructures. He was lucky enough to be given a second chance in the year 2000, when Nicolas Gisin offered him a postdoc at the University of Geneva, to work on theoretical quantum information. His luck persists to this day.
Group Members
- Valerio ScaraniDeputy Director & Principal Investigator
- Aw Cenxin CliveResearch Fellow
- Bai GeResearch Fellow
- Song MinjeongResearch Fellow
- Chen JinyanCQT PhD Student
- Liu MingxuanCQT PhD Student
- Meng ShuyangPhD Student (Physics Dept, NUS)
- Peter SidajayaCQT PhD Student
- Png Wen HanCQT PhD Student
- Zaw Lin HtooCQT PhD Student
- Zhang YueVisiting Scholar
Recent papers
- L. H. Zaw. (2024). Certifiable lower bounds of Wigner negativity volume and non-Gaussian entanglement with conditional displacement gates. Phys. Rev. Lett. 133 050201
- P.Sidajaya, V. Scarani. (2024). Beating one bit of Communication with Quantum Correlations in Smaller Dimension. Phys. Rev. A 109 062408
- Khoi-Nguyen Huynh-Vu, L. H. Zaw, V. Scarani. (2024). Certification of genuine multipartite entanglement in spin ensembles with measurements of total angular momentum. Phys. Rev. A 109 042402
- C.X. Aw, L. H. Zaw, Maria Balanzó-Juandó, V. Scarani. (2024). Role of Dilations in Reversing Physical Processes: Tabletop Reversibility and Generalized Thermal Operations. PRX Quantum 5 010332
- Bai Ge, Dominik Šafránek, Joseph Schindler, Francesco Buscemi, V. Scarani. (2024). Observational entropy with general quantum priors. Quantum 8 1524
- S. Meng, Fionnuala Curran, Gabriel Senno, Victoria J. Wright, Mate Farkas, V. Scarani, Antonio Acin. (2024). Maximal intrinsic randomness of a quantum state. Phys. Rev. A 110 L010403
- Andres F. Ducuara, Paul Skrzypczyk, Francesco Buscemi, P.Sidajaya, V. Scarani. (2023). Maxwell\'s Demon walks into Wall Street: Stochastic Thermodynamics meets Expected Utility Theory. Phys. Rev. Lett. 131 197103
