Alessandro Coppo
Temporary Researcher
QUANTUM DIVING
“Nature is genuinely quantum; classicality is only an emergent behaviour.”
“I first encountered the quantum information theory in the context of quantum communication when I worked on the teleportation protocol for my undergraduate thesis. I was very fascinated by this topic which often appears in science fiction, and I wanted to understand how it was related to the laws of physics. I was very surprised to discover it is a fundamental strategy for sharing, between two very distant points, information encoded in states of physical systems having quantum properties. I then decided to dive into the quantum world and learn about the many interesting objects and phenomena that populated it.”
Research interest:
Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
- Quantum-to-classical crossover. Large-N limit and emergence of classical-like behaviours.
- Page and Wootters mechanism. Time as an illusion created by entanglement.
- Quantum measurement process. Emergence of objective reality.
- Quantum information theory and quantum sensing.
- Quantum algorithms and cryptography protocols.
- Geometry in quantum mechanics. Complexity à la Nielsen. Topology.
Gravitational phenomena from the quantum standpoints
- Black-Hole evaporation and information paradox
- Clocks and Black-Holes
- Black-Hole complexity
Quantum technological applications
- Superconductivity: cuprate heterostructures, Josephson junctions, superconducting qubits and circuits, role of supersymmetry in flux-qubits
- Photonics: parametric processes, spontaneous symmetry breaking and Kerr non-linearities
- Topological quantum phases and phenomena
See my full publication list on Google Scholar.
