Quantum simulators are controllable quantum systems emulating the behaviour of other quantum systems whose properties are not easily accessible. Several designs of quantum simulators are currently being built in many laboratories worldwide, showing already some promising results.
However, the development of efficient probing techniques is still lagging behind, despite their crucial role. As a matter of fact, in most of quantum simulators measurement techniques are invasive and destructive. Not only do they destroy the very quantum properties from which the simulator stems, but also the quantum system itself.
QuProCS aims at developing a radically new approach to probing complex quantum systems for quantum simulations. The key idea lies in quantifying and optimising the of amount information that can be extracted by a single quantum probe, embedded in such a complex environment, as opposed to a classical one.
This project splits in two teams pertaining to two different aspects, complementary to each other.
One team is focused on developing the theory and carrying out experiments on quantum probes in ultra-cold atoms, for detection and characterisation of quantum correlations, quantum phase transitions, transport properties, and non-equilibrium phenomena.
The other team, also consisting of both theoreticians and experimentalists, is focused on how changing the properties of the environment via reservoir engineering modifies the behaviour of the quantum probe. The experimental platform is in this case quantum optical.
However, the development of efficient probing techniques is still lagging behind, despite their crucial role. As a matter of fact, in most of quantum simulators measurement techniques are invasive and destructive. Not only do they destroy the very quantum properties from which the simulator stems, but also the quantum system itself.
QuProCS aims at developing a radically new approach to probing complex quantum systems for quantum simulations. The key idea lies in quantifying and optimising the of amount information that can be extracted by a single quantum probe, embedded in such a complex environment, as opposed to a classical one.
This project splits in two teams pertaining to two different aspects, complementary to each other.
One team is focused on developing the theory and carrying out experiments on quantum probes in ultra-cold atoms, for detection and characterisation of quantum correlations, quantum phase transitions, transport properties, and non-equilibrium phenomena.
The other team, also consisting of both theoreticians and experimentalists, is focused on how changing the properties of the environment via reservoir engineering modifies the behaviour of the quantum probe. The experimental platform is in this case quantum optical.
