Research Area
Active Research fields
Our research activity essentially covers three parts.
i) Characterization of quantum entanglement, correlations and coherence for both identical and nonidentical quantum particles.
ii) Dynamics and protection of quantum coherence and correlations in open quantum systems.
iii) Design of experiments to confirm the theoretical predictions.
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Research projects of the last 5 years
- 2019-2022. Project coordinator CORI-2019-D3-D26-162050, Contribution for the launch and development of international collaborations of the University of Palermo. Universities involved: University of Oxford (UK) & University of Hong Kong (China).
- 2016-2018. Project coordinator CORI-2016-C-D07-162050, Contribution for the launch and development of international collaborations of the University of Palermo. Universities involved: University of Nottingham (UK), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain).
- 2014-2015. Joint international project between Univesidade de São Paulo and University of Nottingham, funded by CAPES do Ministerio da Educac.o do Brasil (project number 108/2012) within the "Science without Frontiers" program of the federal government of Brazil. Project title: Theory and applications of general quantum correlations for quantum information science.
- 2013-2015. Project FFR, Number 2012-ATE-0557, Unique Project Code (CUP) B71J12001840001, entitled: Dynamics and correlations in quantum systems in proximity to material surfaces even out of balance.
Collaborations
- Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (Kurt Busch)
- CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, USA (Armando Perez-Leija)
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy (Fabio Sciarrino, Paolo Mataloni, experimental group)
- Quantum Transport and Information Group, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy (Vittorio Giovannetti)
- School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom (Gerardo Adesso)
- ICREA, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Andreas Winter)
- Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China (Guang-Can Guo; experimental group)
- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Laser Polarization and Information Technology, Department of Physics, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, China (Zhong-Xiao Man, Yun-Jie Xia).
- Department of Physics, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran (Ali Mortezapour)
- FAMAF, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina (Ricardo Zamar, Cecilia Gonzalez)
- Instituto de Fisica de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil (Diogo de Oliveira Soares-Pinto)
- Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físícas (CBPF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (I. Oliveira)
- Physics Department, Faculty of Sciences, Jahrom University, Jahrom, Iran (Hossein Rangani Jahromi)
- RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan (Franco Nori)
- Department of Physics, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran (Alireza Dehghani)
- Technical University of Gdansk, Poland (Pawel Horodecki)
- Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelos, México (Carlos A. González-Gutiérrez, Ricardo Román-Ancheyta, Diego Espitia)
- IFISC (UIB-CSIC), Instituto de Fisica Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos, UIB Campus, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (Roberta Zambrini)
- Dipartimento di Fisica della Materia e Ingegneria Elettronica, Università di Messina, Messina, Italy (Salvatore Savasta)
- SUPA, Department of Physics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Erika Andersson)
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science, Macquarie University, Australia (James D. Cresser)
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, Turun yliopisto, Finland (Sabrina Maniscalco)
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Catania, Italy, (Giuseppe Falci, Elisabetta Paladino)
- Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Como, Italy (Giuliano Benenti)