The goal of our team is to gain insight into quantum foundations and quantum information by exploiting operational and information-theoretic approaches. The team has recently applied them to the field of causality and gravity.
The laws of quantum mechanics govern not only the behavior of elementary particles, but also the collective properties of many-body systems at low temperatures. Understanding the various phases in which quantum matter can organize itself has been a long-standing goal of theoretical physics, motivated both by the quest for new materials and by fundamental questions about the emergence of exotic phenomena in strongly correlated systems.
We theoretically study non-equilibrium dynamics of complex quantum systems, focussing on ultra cold gases near 0K temperature, highly excited Rydberg atoms, opto-mechanical devices and hybrid assemblies of these.
We investigate quantum computing with respect applications from science and industry. For more information visit our webpage
1. Quantum Enhanced Technology
- quantum simulators
- quantum enhanced machine learning
- adiabatic vs gate-model algorithms
2. Foundations and Mathematical Methods
- theory of tensor networks
- theory of quantum walks and time symmetry breaking (chiral quantum walks)
- symmetries, invariant theory
3. Frontiers
- applications of information theory to new domains
- mathematics of network theory
- quantum vs stochastic complex systems
- Hamiltonian complexity theory
