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bctuab.bsky.social @bctuab.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I també a l'Erik Luszczak (GIQ) i a l'Ariadna Gómez del Pulgar (Grup de QCT, IFAE) la seva participació en el muntatge de la #bctUAB i en aquesta visita. I gràcies, sobretot, a les persones que hi heu assistit i ens heu acompanyat en aquest recorregut quàntic! @giq-bcn.bsky.social

Imatge fotogràfica on es veuen cinc persones aturades davant de l'aparador vertical de la Biblioteca de Ciència i Tecnologia seguint les explicacions de l'Ariadna Gómez del Pulgar, investigadora de l'IFAE, sobre la maqueta d'un refrigerador de dilució cedit pel centre

Imatge fotogràfica on es veuen sis persones aturades davant d'una vitrina expositiva. És a la visita de matí, amb l'Erik Luszczak en un moment de la seva explicació

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bctuab.bsky.social @bctuab.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

🆕 La #bctUAB estrena la primera exposició del curs 2025-2026! 📌 “Ciència i tecnologies quàntiques: nous paradigmes d’informació per explorar la naturalesa” 📅 Fins al 21 d'octubre! 🔗 ddd.uab.cat/record/319733 #BibExposUAB @bibliotequesuab.bsky.social @uab.cat @giq-bcn.bsky.social

Imatge fotogràfica del cartell promocional de l'exposició

Imatge fotogràfica d'una part del muntatge expositiu on es veu el cartell de la introducció i la vitrina horitzontal de la Biblioteca

Imatge fotogràfica de detall d'un aparell inclós a l'exposició, concretament un mòdul detector de raigs gamma VIP

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

We are organizing a short course on Quantum Foundations at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona funded by Catalonia Quantum Academy (CQA). Few spaces left! Apply before 20 August, 2025.

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

This week’s 3× feature: Alberto Rolandi & Julia Mathe (Atominstitut, TU Wien) on “Optimal Landauer Erasure in Finite-Time Thermo.” and “Estimating Entanglement Monotones of Perm. Invariant Spin States”, resp. Satoya Imai (LENS, Florence) on “Chiral Symmetries of Multiparticle Entanglement”. Thanks‼️

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Today Joey Schindler presented a new definition of coarse-grained entropy that unifies key approaches and recovers many foundational results from statistical mechanics. Read more arxiv.org/abs/2503.15612 by Schindler, Strasberg, Galke, Winter, Jabbour

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Last week’s cool seminars 📏 Arpan Das (GIQ) Universal time scalings of sensitivity in Markovian quantum metrology 🎱 Debarshi Das (UCL) A New Experimental Proposal to Test the Quantumness of a Large Mass 🫘Giuseppe Vitagliano (TU Wien) Many-body entanglement quantification with collective measurements

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icmabCSIC @icmabcsic.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

🤩 De dilluns 5 de maig a dimecres 7, deixa’t seduir per la quàntica als #QuantumDays a la @uab.cat de 12 a 14 h a la Sala d’Actes de la Facultat de Ciències amb investigadors de @icmabcsic.bsky.social @imb-cnm-csic.bsky.social @icn2.bsky.social, IFAE i més! 🐈 icmab.es/exploring-th...

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Great talk by Raúl Morral Yepes (ex-GIQ undergrad now at TUM Munich) on “Optimal unitary disentanglers for fermionic Gaussian states (and how to use them to play games).”

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Berta Casas from BSC gave this week’s GIQ seminar on Quantum Machine Learning with Group Structure ⚛️.

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 30/07/2024

Beyond IID in Information Theory is currently held at UIUC, but already things are being put in place for next year's edition, at Institute for Advanced Study (Technical University of Munich) #BeyondIID13 #BIID13 #BeyondIID12 #BIID12 @TU_Muenchen @ias_tum

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

This week We had two nice seminars: Teruaki Nagasawa (Nagoya U) discussed Macroscopic states and operations: a generalized resource theory of coherence. Ricard Puig (EPFL) examined Barren plateaus & warm starts, shedding light on quantum loss landscapes and effective training strategies for VQA.

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Bravissima Ilaria Svampa defended her PhD: “Representations of the p-adic three-dimensional rotation group: towards p-adic quantum computing.” 🎓✨ Supervised by S L’Innocente, S Mancini at UNICAM and A Winter (GIQ, UAB) A big step towards a great p-adic quantum future—wherever that may be! 😏 ⚛️

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

This week we had two seminars by Niklas Galke (GIQ PhD candidate) on Finitely correlated states; and by Tomás Fernández Martos (PhD candidate at ICFO and QUSIDE) on Security proof for randomness generation in vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser.

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

This Thursday, Llorenç Escolà from QuSoft, UvA joined us to talk about “Quantum Position Verification: Loss and Entanglement.”

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Ricard Puig @pvricard.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

New paper on arXiv🔥 How can many-body interactions boost quantum sensing to its limits? We show how to add controlled interactions in many-body probes to reach the highest precision limits in quantum metrology -- both for dynamical and steady states. scirate.com/arxiv/2412.0... #quantum

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Huge congratulations to Martí Perarnau-LLobet, the newest member of GiQ! Recently arrived as a RyC fellow, won the Spanish Royal Physics Society Award for Young Researcher in Theoretical Physics and he just secured a 1M€ ATRAE project grant! Això se’n diu arribar i moldre, Martí. Felicitats🚀 👏 !

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

As a kid, were you fascinated by fractals, went on to study science, but ended up doing "only" information theory or quantum physics? Rejoice, here is our communication-capacity-fractal-dimension crossover (improved v2)! @TU_Muenchen @ias_tum

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 30/07/2024

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 06/07/2024

Finally out, "Women for Quantum - Manifesto of Values" by more than 30 women in quantum science, including Anna Sanpera from @GIQ_BCN and Verónica Ahufinger from the Optics Group @UABBarcelona #w4q #womenforquantum #quantumphysics

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

Seth Lloyd lecturing on Quantum Information Processing with Continuous Variables - showing that John von Neumann invented the quantum phase estimation algorithm. @IMAG_UGR @BIRS_Math

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

A. Winter (with A. Winter, A. Winter and A. Winter) just released “Is Winter Coming?” @GIQ_BCN @ias_tum @QUIRCK

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

From the people who tend to look down on "curiosity-driven" research, sure enough we get a bit of money-driven research. In that world, given that google evidently hasn't got the brain power to solve the problem, it's only rational to farm it out.

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

Applications now open to join the𝗠𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿'𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗺 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 & 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 @ Barcelona . Admissions on a rolling basis monthly, starting March. Register to the online info session on Feb 26th at 3pm at

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

PhD and Postdoc positions @GIQ_BCN (tight deadlines!)

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 13/06/2023

Yesterday, Matías Bilkis defended his PhD thesis “Decision-making in quantum environments: from model-free to model-aware learning of quantum controls” before R. Zambrani, Z. Holmes and G. Sentis. Felicidades Dr Bilkis ! Nice defense, awesome celebration 🥁🎻🥘🍾🎊!

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 11/06/2023

New edition of “Bojos per la Física (Quàntica)” (Mad for Physics @PedreraCiencia) at GIQ @UABBarcelona: intense morning learning quantum physics 101, public-key and quantum-key distribution, and Bell's test. Gràcies als 25 bojos i boges ⚛️! #WorldQuantumDay @DigiQMaster

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 17/03/2023

GIQ repudiates all forms of harassment and stands in solidarity with the victims. We are distressed by how UAB rector's office has handled recent cases occurring at our university. We must take action to create a safe and respectful environment for all.

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 07/02/2023

Bravissimo Dr. Carlo Marconi! The world of quantum knows a ton more about the distinguished features of indistinguishable particles. PhD thesis successfully defended in front of the tribunal of Profs Chruscinski, Lewenstein and Bagan. Kudos also to his supervisor Prof Sanpera!

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 16/12/2022

This week we had two visitors: M Rosati (ex-GIQui now @ Roma Tre U) and B Bergh (U of Cambridge). We enjoyed their talks ‘A learning theory for quantum photonic processors and beyond’ and ‘Parallel and Adaptive Quantum Channel Discrimination with Simple and Composite Hypotheses🎄

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 24/11/2022

Today Ilaria Svampa (joint PhD candidate Camerino U + UAB-GIQ) gave us a wonderful talk on p-adic quantum mechanics entitled “Towards p-adic quantum bits via representations of the p-adic group of rotations SO(3)ₚ”.

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 21/11/2022

Dr. Paul Erker received (with some delay) the UAB PhD thesis award. Felicitats Pauli 🥳! Some of the work in this thesis was recently covered in this quantamagazine article:

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 21/11/2022

Paralysed by the uncertain fate of Tweeter, GIQ hasn’t tweeted in a while. Now, as Titanic's musicians, GIQ proudly crows the speakers we had this autumn 🧵

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 08/10/2022

More snapshots from Anna's memorable birthday celebration!

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 22/09/2022

This week Zhen-Peng Xu (U of Siegen) visited GIQ, and gave the talk ‘Quantum networks cannot generate graph states with high fidelity’.

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 12/09/2022

Special day for the Master in Quantum Science & Technology in Barcelona: First cohort of graduates (@UniBarcelona, @UAB,@ICFOnians,@la_UPC,@IFAE,@QUANTIC_BSC )! Farewell to ready to fly Q-Masters and welcome to new promotion birds!

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 24/06/2022

This week we had Paul Erker from IQOQI (Vienna) talking on ‘Measuring the thermodynamic cost of timekeeping”. Gracias por la visita Pauli!

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 17/06/2022

Jordi Tura from LION@Leiden is visiting us this week. In the pict Dr. Tura is about to reach his ground state.

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 16/06/2022

Today we enjoyed a nice talk by Manab Bera (IISER, Mohali): Does Quantum Bayes' Rule Affirm Consistency in Measurement Inferences in Quantum Mechanics?

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 14/06/2022

Giqui Andreas Winter receives a Humboldt Research Award to collaborate with quantum colleagues at TU Munich @UABBarcelona @AvHStiftung @TU_Muenchen

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 09/06/2022

GIQ’s M.S. along with fellow researchers at S. Morelli, N. Friis and D. Sauerwein, show how to increase the yield of multi-partite entangled states, distributed through noisy channels, by merging probabilistic entanglement conversion protocols with Bayesian estimation methods.

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 20/05/2022

Proud to announce publication of "Activation of indistinguishability-based quantum coherence..." by giqui Andreas Winter and ex-giqui Ludovico Lami with Hefei and Palermo colleagues in PNAS 🍆 @PNASNews

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 12/05/2022

Today, Victor Gaspar (GMV @infoGMV_es ) giving us a talk on ‘Quantum technologies from a business perspective’!

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 08/04/2022

GIQuis Marco Fanizza and Anna Sanpera at the Quantum Career Symposium organized by Master in Quantum Science and Technology Barcelona. 👏🏻

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 24/03/2022

Thanks Zuzana Gavorova (Hebrew U of Jerusalem) for the inspiring talk on 'Topological obstructions to implementing basic tasks' at today's GIQ seminar.

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 17/03/2022

Today, we had Chun-Yun Hsieh (ICFO) talking about Dynamical Resource Theories and Their Applications. Great overview and cool applications !

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 04/03/2022

Today we had our first GIQ extinction-aware round-table! Philipp introduced “The psychology of climate inaction” by Kate Jeffery that preceded the discussion

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 11/02/2022

Today, Dr. Esteban Martínez-Vargas successfully defended his PhD in front of the committee: S. Croke (U Glasgow), J. de Vicente (U Carlos III, Madrid) and E. Bagan (@GIQ_BCN). Congratulations to Esteban and his supervisors Ramon Muñoz-Tapia and Gael Sentis @gueygel !🎓🍾

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 10/02/2022

Prospective PhD student Jelena Mackeprang (U of Stuttgart) gave an interesting talk “Quantum Correlations for Computation” on finding signatures of quantum non-locality in a computational framework.

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 08/02/2022

Fresh out of the presses, GIQ is proud to announce Philipp Strasberg's book "Quantum Stochastic Thermodynamics: Foundations and Selected Applications". Congrats Philipp 📕🍾!

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 08/02/2022

GIQui Alonso Viladomat giving us a nice intro to Category theory and Resource theories.

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