Pitaevskii Center on Bose-Einstein Condensation

Our research mission is to achieve a deeper understanding and precise control of quantum matter.

Principal investigators: Philipp Hauke, Iacopo Carusotto, Alessio Recati

Postdocs: Sudipto Singha Roy, Soumik Bandyopadhyay, Kevin T. Geier, Andrea Legramandi, Ricardo Costa de Almeida, Haifeng Lang, Emanuele Tirrito.

PhD students: Julius Mildenberger, Philipp Uhrich, Riccardo Cominotti, Gopal Chandra Santra, Veronica Panizza, Edoardo Ballini, Alberto Bottarelli, Sebastian Nagies

Main research field:

• QUANTUM COMPUTING
• QUANTUM SIMULATION
• MANY-BODY ENTANGLEMENT
• NOVEL MEASUREMENT TOOLS FOR MANY-BODY EXPERIMENTS

Methods:

Basic tools of quantum information theory; theory of entanglement in many-body systems; computational complexity theory; quantum resource theory; numerical techniques (exact diagonalization, tensor networks); analytical techniques (mean-field theory, generalized spin-wave theory, time-dependent perturbation theory, Magnus expansion); pertinent methods of target application fields; cloud quantum computing.

Recent PhD theses:

• Philipp Uhrich (2023), Towards Quantum Simulation of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model.
• Haifeng Lang (2022), Quantum Dynamics of Chemical Systems with Large Number of Degrees of Freedom: Linearized Phase Space Methods and Quantum Simulations
• Ricardo Costa de Almeida (2022), Entanglement certification in quantum many-body systems
• Kevin T. Geier (2022), Probing Dynamics and Correlations in Cold-Atom Quantum Simulators

Visit our website: Hauke Group — Quantum Technologies Theory

Funding:

"Our group is receiving funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (ERC-2018-STG project StrEnQTh - Strong Entanglement in Quantum many-body Theory, Grant agreement No. 804305), the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme (NeQST project, Grant agreement No. 101080086), Provincia Autonoma di Trento, and Q@TN, the joint lab between the University of Trento, FBK - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics, and CNR - National Research Council."