Quantum Information and Quantum Foundations Group Buenos Aires

Basic info
Short name: 
QIQFGBA
We are working in: 
Theory and Experiment

Location(s)

Buenos Aires
Argentina

Head: Juan Pablo Paz

Institution: Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Homepage: http://qiqfgba.df.uba.ar/

Research Areas

The physics of quantum information and quantum computation (use of quantum computers for physics simulations, study of quantum algorithms as dynamical systems, study of potential physical realizations of quantum computers, quantum error correction, etc). Decoherence and the physics of the quantum to classical boundary (decoherence for classically chaotic systems, decoherence and quantum measurement, controlled decoherence experiments, etc). The dynamics of phase transitions (nonequilibrium and quantum effects in phase transitions, defect formation, etc).

Staff

Director: Juan Pablo Paz

Graduate students: Augusto Roncaglia, Cecilia Cormick, Ariel Bendersky, Christian Schmiegelow

Undergraduate students: Fernando Pastawski