We work in quantum mechanics and its foundations: the measurement problem, the meaning of the wave function, entaglement and nonlocality, the quantum-to-classical transition, the relation between quantum theory and relativity/gravity. Read more

 

Latest News, Conferences and Seminars

Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Prof. Bassi interviewed by Scientific American

The TEQ teams work to establish the large-scale limit of quantum mechanics trying to answer questions that are so far unaddressed: why we have no evidence of non-classical behavior in the macroscopic world? How is quantumness lost as we abandon the microscopic domain? To find answers, TEQ partners are undergoing tests of quantum effects for systems whose mass is orders of magnitude larger than that employed in the most successful quantum experiments to date.
Thursday, June 14, 2018
Caitlin Jones (PhD student at University of Trieste)

Micius Satellite and Satellite-to-Ground quantum communication

he Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) is a satellite research project aiming to perform proof-of-concept demonstrations of long-distance quantum communication using a satellite named Micius.
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Dr. Marco Oppio (PhD)

Quantum theory in real or quaternionic Hilbert spaces: how the complex Hilbert space structure emerges from Poincaré symmetry

In principle, the lattice of elementary propositions of a generic quantum system admits a representation in real, complex or quaternionic Hilbert spaces as established by Solèr’s theorem (1995) closing a long-standing problem that can be traced back to the von Neumann’s mathematical formulation of q
Monday, May 21, 2018
Giorgio Torrieri (Researcher, Istituto de Fisica Gleb Wataghin, DRCC, IFGW)

The Unruh effect, the equivalence principle and quantum field theory

The idea that the Unruh effect has a role in the apparent thermalization of systems produced in hadronic collisions has gained quite a lot of popularity in the last few years [1].

Recent Publications

Gasbarri, Giulio, Marko Toroš, and Angelo. Bassi. "General Galilei Covariant Gaussian Maps." Physical Review Letters. 119.10 (2017).
Bassi, Angelo., André Großardt, and H. Ulbricht. "Gravitational decoherence." Classical and Quantum Gravity. 34.19 (2017): 193002.
Vinante, A., et al. "Improved Noninterferometric Test of Collapse Models Using Ultracold Cantilevers." Physical Review Letters. 119.11 (2017).
McMillen, S., et al. "Quantum-limited estimation of continuous spontaneous localization." Physical Review A. 95.1 (2017).