Presentations, Talks

 

    NTT RIKEN workshop 2024


    NTT-RIKEN workshop on photonics, neural networks, and solving combinatorial optimization problems using specialized hardware systems. [Program]

     

    MP4: Day 1 (~2h55mins), Day 2 (~1h37mins), Day 5 (~2h7mins)



    CIM consortium organized by NTT 2023


    Presentation by Dr. Zheng-Yang Zhou

     

    Towards the quantum regime in coherent Ising machines [MP4]

    Harnessing coherent Ising machines in the quantum regime [MP4]



    QIQT-2023


    Quantum Optics with Giant Atoms: Decoherence-Free Interaction Between Giant Atoms in Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics on QIQT2023 - Quantum Information and Quantum Technology. [YouTube, MP4]



    RQC seminar 2023


    Our lab members presented at the RQC seminar (RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing).
    Some recorded videos are available below.

     

    Majorana's approach to nonadiabatic transitions and how it validates the adiabatic-impulse approximation (~39 minutes) [MP4].
    P. Kofman (School of Physics and Technology, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine)

     

    Data mining the output of quantum simulators - from critical behavior to algorithmic complexity (~70 minutes) [MP4].
    M. Dalmonte (International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP))

     

    Sensitivity curve of the earth-based gravitational interferometers: Approaching the quantum limit (~93 minutes) [MP4].
    F. Marchesoni (Virgo Collaboration, INFN Perugia, Italy)

     

    Quantum effects in photosynthesis (~58 minutes) [MP4].
    P.K. Ghosh (Department of chemistry, Presidency University, India)

     

    Exploring the Frontier of Coherent and Incoherent Processes in Ultrastrong Coupled Systems (~40 minutes) [MP4].
    A. Mercurio (Dipartimento di Fisica della Materia e Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy)

     

    Nonlinear-resonator quantum Rabi model and dephasing in ultrastong and deepstrong coupling regimes (~47 minutes) [MP4].
    F. Mauceri (Dipartimento di Fisica della Materia e Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy)

     

    Finite-temperature Wigner solid and other phases of ripplonic polarons on a helium film (~57 minutes) [MP4].
    V. Misko (Department of Chemical Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

     

    (1) Casimir torque and force on gratings, (2) Genuine quantum thermal machine in single nonequilibrium EM bath (~93 minutes) [MP4_Part1, Part2].
    M. Antezza (Laboratoire Charles Coulomb, University of Montpellier, France)

     

    Parametric processes, criticality, and quantum information: from cat codes to enhanced sensing (~89 minutes) [MP4].
    F. Minganti (Institute of Physics, and Center for Quantum Science and Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland)

     

    Dressing qubits with classical fields for quantum applications (~85 minutes) [MP4].
    C.S. Munoz (Department of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain)

     

    The search for Dark Matter with the LZ experiment (~76 minutes) [MP4].
    W. Lorenzon (Department of Physics, University of Michigan, USA)

     

    Spin Qubits in Semiconductors: The Past, Present, and Future (~65 minutes) [MP4].
    X. Hu (Department of Physics, University of Buffalo, USA)

     

    Coupled spin-wave and magnetic flux quanta in superconductor-based heterostructures (~60 minutes) [MP4].
    O. Dobrovolskiy (Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Austria)

     

    From unconventional saturation to optical bistability: exploring the Tavis–Cummings model with a highly dissipative cavity (~54 minutes) [MP4].
    T. Karmstrand (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

     

    Space weather 101: What is a solar storm? (~65 minutes) [MP4].
    E. Palmerio (Research Scientist, Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, CA, USA.)

     

    Measurement-based quantum simulation of Abelian lattice gauge theories (~53 minutes) [MP4].
    T. Okuda (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo)

     

    Non-reciprocal optical response in ring resonators integrated with magneto-optical materials and transition metal dichalcogenides (~68 minutes) [MP4].
    Y. Kawaguchi (The City College of New York, USA. Ph.D. Student)

     

    Reservoir-assisted energy migration in hybrid quantum systems (~59 minutes) [MP4].
    J. Dias (Quantum Information Science and Technology Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST))

     

    Matrix Entanglement (~77 minutes) [MP4].
    V. Gautam (University of Surrey, UK, Ph.D. Student)

     

    Lee-Yang theory of non-equilibrium phase transitions in quantum many-body systems (~86 minutes) [MP4].
    F. Brange (Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University, Finland)

     

    How hidden dimensions can emerge naturally from parameter spaces and derive the evolution equations for quantum states (~58 minutes) [MP4].
    C.Y. Ju (Department of Physics, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan)

     

    Tunable Sensitivity in Non-Hermitian Systems (~44 minutes) [MP4].
    G.Y. Chen (Department of Physics, National Chung Hsing University)

     

    Gauge principle and gauge invariance issues in the ultrastrong coupling regime (~68 minutes) [MP4].
    O. Di Stefano (Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche e Informatiche, Scienze Fisiche e Scienze della Terra, Universit`a di Messina, Italy)

     

    Interpreting classical entanglement using quantum optical theory (~103 minutes) [MP4].
    H. Ian (Faculty of Science, University of Macau)

     

    Probing the symmetry breaking of a light–matter system by a probe qubit (~60 minutes) [MP4].
    S. Savasta (Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche e Informatiche, Scienze Fisiche e Scienze della Terra, Universit`a di Messina, Italy)

     

    Classical information processing for large and reliable quantum computers (~64 minutes) [MP4].
    S. Brierley (CEO of Riverlane)

     

    On the Impossibility of Superradiant Phase Transitions in Many-Dipole Cavity-QED Systems (~40 minutes) [MP4].
    D. Lamberto (Università degli Studi di Messina, Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche e Informatiche, Scienze Fisiche e Scienze della Terra (MIFT), Italy)

     

    Hardware implementation of quantum stabilizers for protecting qubits from decoherence (~96 minutes) [MP4].
    B. Plourde (Physics Department, Syracuse University, US )

     

    Quick charging of a quantum battery (~65 minutes) [MP4].
    P.R. Lai (Ph.D. student at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)

     

    Molecular-orbital switch (~90 minutes) [MP4].
    H. Yanagisawa (Shizuoka university, Japan)

     

    Quantum Nanophotonics with 2D crystals (~75 minutes) [MP4].
    A. Reserbat-Plantey (CNRS, CRHEA, Université Nice Côte d’Azur, France)

     

    Quantum exceptional points and related topics (~63 minutes) [MP4].
    A. Miranowicz (Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)

     

    Giant Atoms Embedded in an Environment: Dynamics, Dissipation, and Control (~49 minutes) [MP4].
    Z. Yu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA)

     

    Quantum optics with doublons in nonlinear waveguides (~58 minutes) [MP4].
    X. Wang (School of Physics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)

     

    Unsupervised learning of quantum scars using intrinsic dimension (~70 minutes) [MP4].
    H. Cao (National University of Singapore)

     

    Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev-type long-range interacting models: spectral statistics and quantum error correction (~60 minutes) [MP4].
    M. Tezuka (Kyoto University, Japan)

     

    Current fluctuations in continuously measured quantum systems: lessons from the critical Kerr model (~78 minutes) [MP4].
    M. Mitchinson (School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

     

    A new approach to semi-classical limits (~73 minutes) [MP4].
    I. Layton (Dept of Physics & Astronomy, Faculty of Maths & Physical Sciences, University of College London, UK)

     

    Deep learning the nonclassicality within quasi-distribution representations from marginals (~83 minutes) [MP4].
    H.B. Chen (Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)

     

    Unveiling and veiling an entangled light-matter quantum state from the vacuum (~56 minutes) [MP4].
    R. Stassi (Messina University, Italy)

     

    How quantum particles and classical waves propagate in fluctuating environments: general results and applications (~93 minutes) [MP4].
    V. Freilikher (Dept. of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Israel)

     

    Recent developments in QuTiP (~77 minutes) [MP4].
    E. Giguere (General Manager at ISC Applied Systems, Canada)

     

    Feasibility of implementing small surface and Bacon-Shor codes with two different qubit encoding schemes on a spin quantum computer (~82 minutes) [MP4].
    M. Gutierrez (University of Costa Rica)

     



    Physics Reports Seminar


    Nonadiabatic Landau–Zener–Stückelberg–Majorana transitions, dynamics, and interference (~39 minutes) [Link, PDF, MP4]



    LPHYS 2023


    Classification and Reconstruction of Optical Quantum States with Deep Neural Networks (~23 minutes) [Link, Program, MP4]



    Quantum Physics and Complex Systems


    December 2022: Dr. F. Nori's online presentation at Quantum Physics and Complex Systems on “Quantum Optics with Giant Atoms:Decoherence-Free Interaction between Giant Atoms in Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics” (~57 minutes) [Link, Booklet][MP4_Part1, Part2, Q&A]



    The 6th International Workshop on Quantum Coherence, Information, and Computing


    October 2022: Dr. F. Nori's online presentation at Quantum Coherence on “Quantum Optics with Giant Atoms:Decoherence-Free Interaction between Giant Atoms in Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics”. There is no recorded video at this time, but here are the slides used in the presentation. [Talk PDF]



    RQC seminar 2022


    Our lab members presented at the RQC seminar (RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing).
    Some recorded videos are available below.

     

     Quantum state and process tomography with machine learning and gradient descent (~68 minutes) [MP4].
       A.F. Kockum (Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

     Exotic spectral degeneracies in non-Hermitian systems (~61 minutes) [MP4].
       I. Arkhipov (Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic)

     Applications of temporal quantum steering (~61 minutes) [MP4].
       Y.N. Chen (Department of Physics and Center for Quantum Frontiers of Research & Technology (QFort), National Cheng Kung University)

     When Kondo effect meets ultrastrong coupling of cavity photons (~51 minutes) [MP4].
       P.C. Kuo (Department of Physics and Center for Quantum Frontiers of Research & Technology (QFort), National Cheng Kung University)

     Understanding waveguide-QED systems with time-delayed coherent feedback [PDF].
       S. Hughes (Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada)

     Quantum thermodynamics of optomechanical systems in the nonlinear regime (~127 minutes) [MP4].
       A. Ferreri (Research center “Forschungszentrum” Jülich, Germany)

     Unifying and improving quantum algorithmse (~108 minutes) [MP4].
       Z.M. Rossi (MIT Quanta Group — Cambridge, MA)

     Dynamics-based certification of quantumness and entanglement (~66 minutes) [MP4].
       V. Scarani (Centre for Quantum Technologies and National University of Singapore)

     Cooper pair splitting in real-time (~60 minutes) [MP4].
       C. Flindt (Aalto University, Finland)



    IBS-APCTP Conference


    September 2022: Dr. F. Nori's online presentation at IBS-APCTP Conference on Advances in The Physics of Topological and Correlated Matter on “Topological Non-Hermitian Origin of Surface Maxwell Waves” (~47 minutes) [MP4, YouTube, PDF]



    FQMT 2022


    August 2022: Dr. F. Nori's online presentation at FQMT'22: Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics on “Quantum optics with giant atoms: Decoherence-free interaction between giant atoms in waveguide quantum electrodynamics” (~30 minutes) [MP4, Link]



    KITP Program


    July 2022: Dr. F. Nori's online presentation at KITP Program: Emerging Regimes and Implications of Quantum and Thermal Fluctuational Electrodynamics (ucsb.edu) on “Dynamical Casimir effect in superconducting circuits” (~35 minutes) [MP4, Link]



    Caltech


    May 2022: Dr. Wei Qin’s online presentation at Caltech on “Beating the 3 dB Limit for Intracavity Squeezing and Its Application to Nondemolition Qubit Readout” (~92 minutes) [MP4 Part1, Part2, arXiv]



    QIQT-2022


    June 2022 pedagogical presentation to over 150 students at QIQT-2022: The “Summer School on Quantum Information and Quantum Technology – 2022”. URL: qiqt2022.org

     

    Title: Quantum nonlinear optics with virtual and real photons in the ultrastrong coupling regime of cavity QED.
    The pedagogical talk is about one hour and six minutes, plus 20 minutes for the Q&A period.
    The video of the talk is available on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/T7Xa8qlvbIo/
    Publications on this topic are available online here: https://dml.riken.jp/pub/



    APS March meeting 2022


    APS Meeting Official page: https://march.aps.org/ (Session videos are available for a limited time.)
    Some recorded videos are available below.

     

     Coherence dynamics of a photon-dressed qubit (~10 minutes) [MP4, PPTX, LINK].
       M. Liul (ILTPE, Ukraine)

     Majorana approach for driven quantum systems (2 minutes) [MOV, PDF, LINK].
       P. Kofman (ILTPE and Kharkiv Univ., Ukraine)

     Landau-Zener-Stuckelberg-Majorana transitions for interferometry and quantum control (~10 minutes) [MP4, PPTX, LINK].
       O. Ivakhnenko (ILTPE, Ukraine and RIKEN, Japan)

     Fast Landau-Zener-Stückelberg-Majorana quantum logic gates (~9 minutes) [MP4, PPTX, LINK].
       A. Ryzhov (ILTPE, Ukraine)



    Seminar on Quantum Cats.


      Towards a quantum regime in coherent Ising machines (~45 minutes) [MP4].
      Speaker: Z.Y. Zhou



    QuTiP 2022


      A very brief overview of QuTiP is available here (~6 minutes) [MP4].
      A very short poster with an overview of QuTiP is available here [Poster].
      The presentation and the poster were prepared by Simon Cross, a member of our group.



    PHOTONICA 2021


      Virtual photons in ultra-strongly coupled systems or Quantum Nonlinear Optics without Photons (~37 minutes) [MP4]
      Dynamical Casimir effect in superconducting circuits (~33 minutes) [MP4]



    TAMU-Baylor-Casper Summer School on Quantum Physics and Biophysics


    Dr. Nori gave two lectures at the Casper Summer School in July 2021.


      Virtual photons in ultra-strongly coupled systems or Quantum Nonlinear Optics without Photons (~27 minutes) [MP4]
      Dynamical Casimir effect in superconducting circuits (~23 minutes) [MP4]
      Dynamical Casimir effect in superconducting circuits (~12 minutes) [MP4]



    QIQT 2021


    Dr. Nori gave a plenary talk to students at the Summer School QIQT-21 (Quantum Information and Quantum Technology 2021): "A few examples of Machine Learning and Artificial Neural Networks applied to Quantum Physics". This lecture lasted about 1 hour and 40 minutes. The video can be viewed on YouTube and MP4. [YoutTube, MP4]



    APS March meeting 2021


    Our research team gave 27 presentations and 1 poster session at the APS March Meeting 2021.
    These can be viewed on the APS official page [Link] for a limited time.
    Each presentation can also be found on our site, at the links below.


      APS March meeting +10 Videos: Page 1

     

      APS March meeting +10 Videos: Page 2



    Poster: Quantum Techniques in Machine Learning 2021


    Poster [PNG] (2MB) on the paper "Topological quantum phase transitions retrieved through unsupervised machine learning", Phys. Rev. B 102, 134213 (2020). [PDF][Link][arXiv]. Presented at the conference “Quantum Techniques in Machine Learning 2021”. [Link]



    Princeton Workshop on: Unruh Acceleration Radiation, Vacuum Entanglement and Relativity


    The first two talks in this VIDEO LINK are by F. Nori and S. Savasta, on the Dynamical Casimir Effect. These two talks were given on December 10th, 2020, at the Princeton Workshop on: Unruh Acceleration Radiation, Vacuum Entanglement and Relativity.



    NTT Research Summit 2020


    Here is the video [MP4, Link] of Dr. Nori’s presentation on: “Using machine learning to solve challenging problems in quantum science and technology”, at the 2020 NTT Research Summit.



    META 2017


    2017 July: Dr. F. Nori gave a Plenary talk at the large international conference “META 2017” Incheon, Korea [PDF, Link, PNG], which was attended by over 900 people, and was well received by the audience. Conference Video is here: Parity-Time-Symmetric Optics, extraordinary momentum and spin in evanescent waves, and the quantum spin Hall effect of light [YouTube, MP4, Link].








Dr. Nori - List of Talks


    Scheduled


  • --- Talk Title ---
    META 2024 - 14th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics, Toyama, Japan, July 16-19, 2024. Plenary Lecture [Link, PDF]


  • 2024


  • Machine Learning Techniques Applied to Quantum Physics
    PQE 2024 - The 54th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics, Snowbird, Utah, USA, January 12, 2024. Invited. [Link, Program]


  • 2023


  • Quantum Optics with Giant Atoms: Decoherence-Free Interaction between Giant Atoms in Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics
    OIST Workshop "Feedback control of Quantum Machines", OIST, Okinawa, Japan, November 26, 2023. Invited. [Link, PDF, PDF]

  • Quantum Optics with Giant Atoms: Decoherence-Free Interaction between Giant Atoms in Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics
    QPQIS2023 - the 5th International Symposium on Quantum Physics and Quantum Information Science, Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, Beijing, China, October 17, 2023. Invited. [Link, PNG]

  • Nonadiabatic Landau–Zener–Stückelberg–Majorana transitions, dynamics, and interference
    Physics Reports Seminar - Cassyni, online, July 26, 2023. Invited. [Link, PDF, MP4]

  • Classification and Reconstruction of Optical Quantum States with Deep Neural Networks
    LPHYS'23 - the 31st Annual International Laser Physics Workshop, Online, July 3, 2023. Invited. [Link, Program]

  • Giant atoms in quantum optics and quantum information
    Quantum Effects in Biological Systems Workshop 2023, online, University of Surrey, UK, June 29, 2023. Invited. [Link, Program]

  • Quantum Optics with Giant Atoms: Decoherence-Free Interaction Between Giant Atoms in Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics
    QIQT2023 - Quantum Information and Quantum Technology 2023, online, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (IISER-K), India, May 8, 2023. Plenary Speaker. [Link, Schedule][YouTube, MP4]

  • Quantum Optics with Giant Atoms: Decoherence-Free Interaction Between Giant Atoms in Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics
    PQE 2023 - The 53rd Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics, Snowbird, Utah, USA, January 11, 2023. Plenary Speaker. [Link, PDF, Program]


  • 2022


  • Quantum Optics with Giant Atoms:Decoherence-Free Interaction between Giant Atoms in Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics
    Quantum Physics and Complex Systems, Online, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, December 8, 2022. Keynote Speaker. [Link, Booklet][MP4_Part1, Part2, Q&A]

  • Quantum Optics with Giant Atoms:Decoherence-Free Interaction between Giant Atoms in Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics
    The 6th International Workshop on Quantum Coherence, Information, and Computing, Online, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, USA, October 13, 2022. Invited. [Talk PDF, Link]

  • Topological Non-Hermitian Origin of Surface Maxwell Waves
    IBS-APCTP Conference on Advances in The Physics of Topological and Correlated Matter, Online, Daejeon, South Korea, September 21, 2022. Invited. [Link, Leaflet, Program][MP4, YouTube, PDF]

  • Quantum optics with giant atoms: Decoherence-free interaction between giant atoms in waveguide quantum electrodynamics
    FQMT'22 - Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics, Online, Prague, Czech Republic, August 3, 2022. Invited. [Link, PDF, MP4]

  • Quantum Optics with Giant Atoms: Decoherence-Free Interaction between Giant Atoms in Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics
    LPHYS'22 - the 30th Annual International Laser Physics Workshop, Online, July 20, 2022. Plenary speaker [Link, PDF]

  • Dynamical Casimir effect in superconducting circuits
    KITP Conference: Quantum and Thermal Electrodynamic Fluctuations in the Presence of Matter: Progress and Challenges, Online, UC Santa Barbara, July 12, 2022. [Link, PDF, MP4]

  • Quantum nonlinear optics with virtual and real photons in the ultrastrong coupling regime of cavity QED
    QIQT-22 - Quantum Information and Quantum Technology 2022, Online, IISER Kolkata, India, June 4, 2022. Plenary speaker [Link, YouTube]

  • (1) Dynamical Casimir effect: converting virtual photons into measurable ones; (2) Q and A Session
    Quantum Information Bootcamp, online, Venezuela, April 19, 2022. Invited. [PDF_1, PDF_2, Link]

  • Several open problems in the study of Coherent Ising Machines
    NTT-NSF meeting / Round table discussion on theory, online, February 17, 2022.

  • Quantum Nonlinear Optics without Photons, how to excite two or more atoms simultaneously with a single photon, and other unusual properties of ultra-strongly-coupled QED systems
    Fluctuation-induced Forces. WE-Heraeus-Seminar, online, Germany, February 17, 2022. Invited. [PDF, Link]

  • Topological Photonics
    Light-Matter Interactions in Low Dimensional and Topological Photonic Materials, online, IISc Bangalore, India, January 31, 2022. Invited. [PDF]

  • Light-Matter Interactions in the Ultra-Strong Coupling Regime
    Meeting on Japan-US joint research projects on Applied Sciences, online, Tokyo, Japan, January 26, 2022.

  • Quantum Optics with Giant Atoms
    PQE 2022 - The 51st Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics, online, Snowbird, Utah, USA, January 13, 2022. [PDF, Link]


  • 2021


  • Virtual photons in ultra-strongly coupled systems or Quantum Nonlinear Optics without Photons
    IWSSQC-10 - The 10th International Workshop on Solid-State Quantum Computing, online, University of Hong Kong, November 29 - December 1, 2021. Plenary speaker [PDF_1, PDF_2, Link, PNG]

  • Introduction to quantum information processing and superconducting qubits
    ISQI - the Institute of Spintronics and Quantum Information, Symposium on Spintronics and Quantum Information, online, UAM, Poznan, Poland, October 20, 2021. Opening lecture [PDF_1, PDF_2, Link]

  • Theoretical prediction and subsequent observation of the dynamical Casimir effect in a superconducting circuit
    METANANO 2021, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, September 13, 2021. Plenary speaker [Link, PNG]

  • 1. Virtual photons in ultra-strongly coupled systems or Quantum Nonlinear Optics without Photons
    2. Dynamical Casimir effect in super conducting circuits
    PHOTONICA 2021, VIII International School and Conference on Photonics, online, Serbia, August 23, 2021. Plenary speaker [Link, PDF]

  • Virtual photons in ultra-strongly coupled systems or Quantum Nonlinear Optics without Photons
    Mini-workshop on ultra-strong coupling at the University of Michigan, online, August 18, 2021.

  • Quantum Nonlinear Optics Without Photons
    TAMU-Baylor-Casper Summer School on Quantum Physics and Biophysics, Zoom, Casper, Wyoming, July 26, 2021. Invited. [PDF]

  • Quantum Nonlinear Optics Without Photons, How to Excite Two or More Atoms Simultaneously with a Single Photon, and Other Unusual Properties of Ultra-Strongly-Coupled QED Systems
    LPHYS'21 - the 29th Annual International Laser Physics Workshop, Online, July 21, 2021. Invited. [Link, PDF]

  • Quantum Nonlinear Optics without Photons, how to excite two or more atoms simultaneously with a single photon, and other unusual properties of ultra-strongly-coupled QED systems
    FQMT’21 - Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics, Online conference, Prague, July 19, 2021. Invited. [Link, PDF]

  • A few examples of Machine Learning and Artificial Neural Networks applied to Quantum Physics
    QIQT-21 - Quantum Information and Quantum Technology 2021, summer school dual online/offline mode, IISER Kolkata, India, July 5, 2021. Plenary speaker [Link, YoutTube, MP4]

  • Theoretical prediction and subsequent observation of the dynamical Casimir effect in a superconducting circuit
    CM&LTP 2021 - Condensed Matter and Low Temperature Physics 2021, Online, Ukraine, June 6-12, 2021. Invited. [Link, PDF]

  • Poster: Ultradense tailored vortex pinning arrays in YBCO thin films created by focused He ion beam irradiation
    Nanoengineered Superconductors - NES21 Young Investigator's online workshop, Vienna, May 10-12, 2021. [Link, PDF]

  • Quantum Nonlinear Optics without Photons, how to excite two or more atoms simultaneously with a single photon, and other unusual properties of ultra-strongly-coupled QED systems
    SCOM 2021, Online Virtual Sessions, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, April 25-28, 2021. Invited. [PDF, Link]

  • (1) Recent developments in quantum devices; (2) Analogue of a quantum heat engine using a single-spin qubit
    FQXi workshop, Online Virtual Sessions, April 1, 2021. Invited.

  • A summary of some of our results on Non-Hermitian Quantum Mechanics in Optics and Optical Analogs of Topological Insulators
    Non-Hermitian Physics, Online Virtual Sessions, ICTS (International Center for Theoretical Sciences), India, March 22-26, 2021. Invited. [Link, YouTube]

  • A few examples of Machine Learning and Artificial Neural Networks applied to Quantum Physics
    APS March 2021 meeting, Online Virtual Sessions, March 15-19, 2021. [Link]


  • 2020


  • Theoretical prediction and subsequent observation of the dynamical Casimir effect in a superconducting circuit
    Princeton Center for Theoretical Science (PCTS) - Unruh acceleration radiation, vacuum entanglement and relativity conference, Virtual Meeting on Zoom, December 8-10, 2020. [Link, PDF]

  • Panel Discussion
    Virtual Irago Conference 2020, Online Zoom webinar, November 11, 2020. Invited. [PDF, Link]

  • Using machine learning to solve challenging problems in quantum science and technology
    2020 NTT Research Summit, Online Virtual Sessions, Sep. 28 - Oct. 1, 2020. Invited. [MP4, Link]

  • Quantum Nonlinear Optics without Photons, how to excite two or more atoms simultaneously with a single photon, and other unusual properties of ultra-strongly-coupled QED systems
    PQE2020 - The 50th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics, Snowbird, Utah, USA, January 5-10, 2020. [PDF, Link]