Pitaevskii Center on Bose-Einstein Condensation

Trento, Italy

Quantum Information and Many-Body systems

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

Principal investigators: Philipp Hauke, Alberto Biella, Iacopo Carusotto, Alessio Recati

Postdocs: Soumik Bandyopadhyay, Chiara Capecci, Christian Johansen, Ganesh Lakkaraju, Andrea Legramandi, Naga Dileep Varikuti, Matteo Michele Wauters

PhD students: Gopal Chandra Santra, Edoardo Ballini, Alberto Bottarelli, Sebastian Nagies, David Pascual Solis, Alex Windey

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:

Veronica Panizza (2025) Quantum computing for biophysical and optimization problems
Julius Mildenberger (2023), Towards Error-Resilience in Quantum Simulation of Lattice Gauge Theories
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
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

Master thesis:

Francesco Musso (2024), Efficiency of quantum annealing of the shortest path problem

Vincenzo Zimbardo (2024), Tensor networks and statistical physics

Severino Zeni (2024), Correlated quantum zeno effect in a monitored qubit dimer

Simon Amedeo Kochsiek (2024), Algorithms for digital quantum simulation:Qdrift sampling vs. trotter expansion

Alessio Paviglianiti (2021), Universality in the Quench dynamics of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model: Master equation and cumulant expansion approaches

Claudio Iacovelli (2021), Violation of gauge invariance in non-Abelian lattice gauge theories

Veronica Panizza (2021), Entanglement witnesses for lattice gauge theories

Antonio Anna Mele (2021), Quantum approximate optimization algorithm for quantum many-body states preparation

For more information visit also: Hauke Group — Quantum Technologies Theory

Funding:

Funding: "Our group is receiving funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme (NeQST project, Grant agreement No. 101080086); the project DYNAMITE QUANTERA2_00056 funded by the Ministry of University and Research through the ERANET COFUND QuantERA II - 2021 call and co-funded by the European Union (H2020, GA No 101017733); the project SERI Holograph (UeMO19-5.1); the project CoQuS funded through the European Union under NextGenerationEU. PRIN 2022 Prot. n. 2022ATM8FY (CUP: E53D23002240006); the project MAGIC App funded by BMBF; the project SQuaSH, funded by CARITRO; the 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."