activity
20112026
most citedVirtual qubits, virtual temperatures, and the foundations of thermodynamics

214 citations · 246 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

7 papers

quant-ph2026

Superactivation of genuine multipartite Bell nonlocality from two-party entanglement

Markus Miethlinger, Riccardo Castellano, Pavel Sekatski +1

Characterizing the relation between entanglement and Bell nonlocality is a long-standing open problem, notably challenging in the multipartite case. Here we investigate the effect…

quant-ph2026

Stronger Welch Bounds and Optimal Approximate -Designs

Riccardo Castellano, Dmitry Grinko, Sadra Boreiri +2

The question of how well a finite ensemble of quantum states can approximate Haar randomness is relevant in many areas of quantum physics. Here we consider this problem from a geom…

quant-ph2025

A Quantum Mechanical Pendulum Clock

Matteo Brunelli, Mohammad Mehboudi, Nicolas Brunner +1

We investigate an optomechanical system as a model of an autonomous mechanical pendulum clock in the quantum regime, whose operation relies only on incoherent (thermal) resources.…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Symmetric observations without symmetric causal explanations

Christian William, Patrick Remy, Jean-Daniel Bancal +3

Inferring causal models from observed correlations is a challenging task, crucial to many areas of science. In order to alleviate the computational effort when sifting through poss…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

Certifying high-dimensional quantum channels

Sophie Engineer, Suraj Goel, Sophie Egelhaaf +9

The use of high-dimensional systems for quantum communication opens interesting perspectives, such as increased information capacity and noise resilience. In this context, it is cr…

hep-ph2011★ 27 cited

Can apparent superluminal neutrino speeds be explained as a quantum weak measurement?

M. V. Berry, N. Brunner, S. Popescu +1

Probably not.

quant-ph2011★ 214 cited

Virtual qubits, virtual temperatures, and the foundations of thermodynamics

Nicolas Brunner, Noah Linden, Sandu Popescu +1

We argue that thermal machines can be understood from the perspective of `virtual qubits' at `virtual temperatures': The relevant way to view the two heat baths which drive a therm…