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most citedBridging thermodynamics and metrology in non-equilibrium Quantum Thermometry

67 citations · 563 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 6 cited

Magnetic response and electronic states of well defined Graphene/Fe/Ir(111) heterostructure

Claudia Cardoso, Giulia Avvisati, Pierluigi Gargiani +7

We investigate a well defined heterostructure constituted by magnetic Fe layers sandwiched between graphene (Gr) and Ir(111). The challenging task to avoid Fe-C solubility and Fe-I…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 5 cited

Electron correlation effects in the exchange coupling at the Fe/CoO/Ag(001) ferro-/antiferro-magnetic interface

Marco Sbroscia, Adriano Verna, Giovanni Stefani +8

Angle resolved-Auger-photoelectron coincidence spectroscopy (AR-APECS) has been exploited to investigate the role that electron correlation plays in the exchange-coupling at the fe…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 8 cited

Unexpectedly large electron correlation measured in Auger spectra of ferromagnetic iron thin films: orbital-selected Coulomb and exchange contributions

R. Gotter, A. Verna, M. Sbroscia +7

A set of electron-correlation energies as large as 10 eV have been measured for a magnetic 2ML Fefilm deposited on Ag(001). By exploiting the spin selectivity in angle-resolved Aug…

quant-ph2020★ 45 cited

Experimental characterization of the energetics of quantum logic gates

Valeria Cimini, Stefano Gherardini, Marco Barbieri +5

We characterize the energetic footprint of a two-qubit quantum gate from the perspective of non-equilibrium quantum thermodynamics. We experimentally reconstruct the statistics of…

quant-ph2019

Measuring the time-frequency properties of photon pairs: a short review

Ilaria Gianani, Marco Sbroscia, Marco Barbieri

Encoding information in the time-frequency domain is demonstrating its potential for quantum information processing. It offers a novel scheme for communications with large alphabet…

quant-ph2019★ 28 cited

Adaptive Tracking of Enzymatic Reactions with Quantum Light

Valeria Cimini, Marta Mellini, Giordano Rampioni +4

Enzymes are essential to maintain organisms alive. Some of the reactions they catalyze are associated with a change in reagents chirality, hence their activity can be tracked by us…

quant-ph2019★ 24 cited

Measuring coherence of quantum measurements

Valeria Cimini, Ilaria Gianani, Marco Sbroscia +2

The superposition of quantum states lies at the heart of physics and has been recently found to serve as a versatile resource for quantum information protocols, defining the notion…

quant-ph2019★ 31 cited

Quantum sensors for dynamical tracking of chemical processes

Valeria Cimini, Ilaria Gianani, Ludovica Ruggiero +7

Quantum photonics has demonstrated its potential for enhanced sensing. Current sources of quantum light states tailored to measuring, allow to monitor phenomena evolving on time sc…

quant-ph2019★ 34 cited

Speed of qubit states during thermalisation

Michele Maria Feyles, Luca Mancino, Marco Sbroscia +2

Classifying quantum states usually demands to observe properties such as the amount of correlation at one point in time. Further insight may be gained by inspecting the dynamics in…

quant-ph2018★ 4 cited

Assessing frequency correlation through a distinguishability measurement

Marco Sbroscia, Ilaria Gianani, Emanuele Roccia +4

The simplicity of a question such as wondering if correlations characterize or not a certain system collides with the experimental difficulty of accessing such information. Here we…

quant-ph2018★ 67 cited

Bridging thermodynamics and metrology in non-equilibrium Quantum Thermometry

Vasco Cavina, Luca Mancino, Antonella De Pasquale +7

Single-qubit thermometry presents the simplest tool to measure the temperature of thermal baths with reduced invasivity. At thermal equilibrium, the temperature uncertainty is link…

quant-ph2018★ 62 cited

Multiparameter quantum estimation of noisy phase shifts

Emanuele Roccia, Valeria Cimini, Marco Sbroscia +6

Phase estimation is the most investigated protocol in quantum metrology, but its performance is affected by the presence of noise, also in the form of imperfect state preparation.…

quant-ph2018★ 22 cited

Realism-information complementarity in photonic weak measurements

Luca Mancino, Marco Sbroscia, Emanuele Roccia +4

The emergence of realistic properties is a key problem in understanding the quantum-to-classical transition. In this respect, measurements represent a way to interface quantum syst…

quant-ph2018★ 35 cited

Geometrical bounds on irreversibility in open quantum systems

Luca Mancino, Vasco Cavina, Antonella De Pasquale +6

Clausius inequality has deep implications for reversibility and the arrow of time. Quantum theory is able to extend this result for closed systems by inspecting the trajectory of t…

quant-ph2017★ 2 cited

Monitoring dispersive samples with single photons: the role of frequency correlations

Emanuele Roccia, Marco G. Genoni, Luca Mancino +3

The physics that governs quantum monitoring may involve other degrees of freedom than the ones initialised and controlled for probing. In this context we address the simultaneous e…

quant-ph2017★ 51 cited

Heralded generation of high-purity ultrashort single photons in programmable temporal shapes

Vahid Ansari, Emanuele Roccia, Matteo Santandrea +9

We experimentally demonstrate a source of nearly pure single photons in arbitrary temporal shapes heralded from a parametric down-conversion (PDC) source at telecom wavelengths. Th…

quant-ph2017★ 14 cited

Experimental ancilla-assisted phase-estimation in a noisy channel

Marco Sbroscia, Ilaria Gianani, Luca Mancino +5

The metrological ability of carefully designed probes can be spoilt by the presence of noisy processes occurring during their evolution. The noise is responsible for altering the e…

quant-ph2017★ 58 cited

Entangling measurements for multiparameter estimation with two qubits

Emanuele Roccia, Ilaria Gianani, Luca Mancino +4

Careful tailoring the quantum state of probes offers the capability of investigating matter at unprecedented precisions. Rarely, however, the interaction with the sample is fully e…

quant-ph2017★ 2 cited

Information-thermodynamics of Quantum Generalized Measurements

Luca Mancino, Marco Sbroscia, Emanuele Roccia +5

Landauer's principle introduces a symmetry between computational and physical processes: erasure of information, a logically irreversible operation, must be underlain by an irrever…

physics.optics2016★ 1 cited

Experimental method for measuring classical concurrence of generic beam shapes

E. Roccia, I. Gianani, L. Mancino +4

Classical entanglement is a powerful tool which provides a neat numerical estimate for the study of classical correlations. Its experimental investigation, however, has been limite…

quant-ph2016★ 64 cited

Quantum Simulation of single-qubit thermometry using linear optics

Luca Mancino, Marco Sbroscia, Ilaria Gianani +2

Standard thermometry employs the thermalisation of a probe with the system of interest. This approach can be extended by incorporating the possibility of using the non-equilibrium…