Transport i Informació en Sistemes Quàntics
La comprensió dels fenòmens complexos quàntics juga un paper clau en el desenvolupament de les tecnologies quàntiques, identificades com una de les àreas més estratègiques per a la investigació i la innovació futures.
En aquesta línia d’investigació ens dediquem a qüestions relacionades amb el transport quàntic de càrrega (nanoelèctrica), espí (espintrònica), energia (termoelectricitat) i informació (correlacions quàntiques), amb especial atenció a les nanoestructures. A més, investiguem els efectes de la decoherència en entorns complexos, explorem sondes quàntiques i fenòmens emergents com la sincronització, amb una especial atenció a les correlacions i la termodinàmica quàntiques i el seu impacte en el processament de la informació.
En IFISC administrem la plataforma QTD, anunciant esdeveniments i places entre les xarxes de científics que treballen en termodinàmica cuàntica, i la web de la QTTS, una societat que fa recerca en termodinàmica de sistemes quàntics i transport quàntic.
Investigadors
Gian Luca Giorgi
Rosa Lopez
David Sánchez
Llorenç Serra
Roberta Zambrini
Michael Moskalets
Recent and ongoing Research projects
MAGMA
MAGNETIC TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS FOR ROBUST MAJORANA BOUND STATES
I.P.: Llorenç Serra
Magnetic topological insulators (MTIs) display a fascinating interplay between magnetic order and topologically nontrivial band structures. In the MAGMA project (“Magnetic topological insulators for robust Majorana bound states”), which is funded by …
CoQHoNet
Connecting Quantum Hopfield Networks
I.P.: Roberta Zambrini
CoQHoNet is a Marie Curie European Postdoctoral Fellowships, which allows the hiring of Dr. Eliana Fiorelli to execute the following research project: Classical Neural Networks (NNs) are architectures successfully employed in Machine …
MdM-IFISC-2
Maria de Maeztu 2023-2026
I.P.: Ernesto Estrada, Ingo Fischer, Emilio Hernández-García, Rosa Lopez, Claudio Mirasso, Jose Javier Ramasco, Raúl Toral, Roberta Zambrini
After 15 years of its existence, IFISC can point to a proven track record of impactful research. The previous 2018-2022 MdM award has significantly enhanced the institute's capabilities, as demonstrated by an …
CoQuSy
Complex Quantum Systems: machine learning, thermodynamics, and emergent phenomena
I.P.: Gian Luca Giorgi, Gonzalo Manzano, Roberta Zambrini
CoQuSy is a coordinated project and joins all the researchers at IFISC (belonging either to CSIC or UIB) working in the common line of complex quantum systems. The coordination is motivated by …
QNet
Transport, metastability, and neuromorphic applications in quantum networks
I.P.: Gian Luca Giorgi, Roberta Zambrini
QNet is a European project funded under the call Quantera 2023. The consortium is coordinated by Ticijana Ban from the Institute of Physics, Zagreb, and is also composed of IFISC, Universität des …
SuMQuTT
Surfing Multiterminal Quantum Thermodynamics and Topology
I.P.: Rosa Lopez, Llorenç Serra
Our project is devoted to the investigation of the novel physics and the functionalities emerging from the combination of three fundamental aspects such as quantum behavior, thermodynamics and topology in transport through …
CoQuaDis
Collective quantum phenomena in dissipative systems – towards time-crystal applications in sensing and metrology
I.P.: Roberta Zambrini
This project seeks to identify and realize quantum resources yielding a possible quantum advantage by exploiting collective phenomena in open systems. The benefit of this approach is that it does not rely …
QUANTCOM
Exploring the Intersection of Quantum Phenomena and Next-Generation Computing
I.P.: Gian Luca Giorgi
Emerging properties of driven-dissipative nonlinear quantum oscillators offer a unique advantage in terms of processing capacity, making these systems strong candidates for real-world applications in a variety of quantum technology contexts. They …
QTD-InFlexity
Quantum thermodynamics: information, fluctuations and complexity
I.P.: Gonzalo Manzano
In the last two decades, thermodynamics has been extended to describe small systems, where the action of environmental noise “blurs” traditional thermodynamic constraints and information plays a central role. While the first …
Quantum Spain
Quantum Spain
I.P.: Roberta Zambrini
Reserach topic: QUANTUM MACHINE LEARNING Convenio en el BOE: https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-2023-18333 IFISC participation both as UIB and as CSIC (2 separate budgets)
Publicacions recents
Universal Statistics of Charges Exchanges in Non-Abelian Quantum Transport
Scandi, Matteo; Manzano, GonzaloSubmitted (2025)
Classical bounds on two-outcome bipartite Bell expressions and linear prepare-and-measure witnesses: Efficient computation in parallel environments such as graphics processing units
Márton,István;Bene,Erika;Diviánszky,Péter;Drótos,GáborComputer Physics Communications 316, 109809 (2025)
A noninvasive and nonadiabatic quantum Maxwell demon
Trigal, Lucas; Sanchez, RafaelSubmitted (2025)
Coarse-Grained Quantum Thermodynamics: Observation-Dependent Quantities, Observation-Independent Laws
Rubino, Giulia; Brukner, Časlav; Manzano, GonzaloSubmitted (2025)
Solitons, chaos, and quantum phenomena: a deterministic approach to the Schrödinger equation
Gomila, DamiàPhysical Review Research accepted, (2025)
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