Transport and Information in Quantum Systems
Understanding of Quantum Complex Phenomena plays a key role in the development of Quantum Technologies identified as one of the most strategic areas for future research and innovation.
In this research line, we are devoted to questions related to quantum transport for charge(nanoelectronics), spin (spintronics), energy (thermoelectrics) and information (quantum correlations), with a particular focus on nanostructures. Moreover, we investigate decoherence effects in complex environments, explore quantum probing, and emergent phenomena such as synchronization, with a focus on quantum correlations and thermodynamics and their impact on information processing.
At IFISC we manage both the QTD platform announcing events and positions among the
networks of scientists working on quantum thermodynamics and the QTTS webpage, a society devoted to understanding the thermodynamics of quantum systems and quantum transport.
Researchers
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Gian Luca Giorgi
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Rosa Lopez
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David Sánchez
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Llorenç Serra
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Roberta Zambrini
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Michael Moskalets
Recent and ongoing Research projects
MAGMA
MAGNETIC TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS FOR ROBUST MAJORANA BOUND STATES
P.I.: 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
P.I.: 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 ...
QuaResC
Quantum machine learning using reservoir computing
P.I.: Miguel C. Soriano, Roberta Zambrini
The QuaResC project engages in a new collaboration UIB and CSIC researchers at IFISC with the objective to address an interdisciplinary topic between artificial intelligence and quantum physics: quantum machine learning using ...
QuTTNAQMa
TRANSPORTE CUANTICO Y TERMODINAMICA: NUEVAS AVENIDAS EN MATERIALES CUANTICOS
P.I.: Rosa Lopez, Llorenç Serra
The aim of this project is to investigate the heat and energy transport properties in nanoconductors considering complex phenomena due to either many-body interactions and/or the presence of quantum materials.
MdM-IFISC-2
Maria de Maeztu 2023-2026
P.I.: 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
P.I.: 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
P.I.: 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 ...
CoQuaDis
Collective quantum phenomena in dissipative systems – towards time-crystal applications in sensing and metrology
P.I.: 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 ...
QTD-InFlexity
Quantum thermodynamics: information, fluctuations and complexity
P.I.: 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
P.I.: 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)
Recent Publications
Reassessing quantum-thermodynamic enhancements in continuous thermal machines
Almanza-Marrero,José A.;Manzano,GonzaloSubmitted (2025)
Wigner's friend scenarios: on what to condition and how to verify the predictions
del Santo, Flavio; Manzano, Gonzalo; Brukner, CaslavSubmitted (2025)
A cross-disciplinary research framework at institution level and beyond
Argyris, Apostolos; Hernández-García, Emilio; San Miguel, MaxiNature Communications 15, 10399 (1-3) (2024)
Role of coherence in many-body Quantum Reservoir Computing
Palacios, A; Martínez-Peña, R.; Soriano, M. C.; Giorgi, G. L.; Zambrini, R.Communications Physics 7, 369 (2024)
Bosonic Mpemba effect with non-classical states of light
Longhi, StefanoAPL Quantum 1, 046110 (1-7) (2024)
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Simulation of collective effects between the qubits of a quantum computer
March 10, 2023
An international team, involving researchers from IFISC (UIB-CSIC) in collaboration with the University of Helsinki, Aalto University and the startup Algorithmiq (Finland), has successfully simulated the collective and dissipative dynamics of two qubits in a real quantum computer. These results ...