Professor GERARDO ADESSO's Outputs (88)

Ergodiscord: An Operational and Distinct Notion of Quantumness of Correlations (2025)
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Alimuddin, M., Chowdhury, S. R., Patra, R. K., Ghosh, S. B., Tufarelli, T., Adesso, G., & Banik, M. (in press). Ergodiscord: An Operational and Distinct Notion of Quantumness of Correlations. Physical Review Research,

Nonclassicality in composite quantum systems depicts several puzzling manifestations, with Einstein-PodolskyRosen entanglement, Schrödinger steering, and Bell nonlocality being the most celebrated ones. In addition to those, an unentangled quantum st... Read More about Ergodiscord: An Operational and Distinct Notion of Quantumness of Correlations.

Quantum Processes as Thermodynamic Resources: The Role of Non-Markovianity (2025)
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Zambon, G., & Adesso, G. (in press). Quantum Processes as Thermodynamic Resources: The Role of Non-Markovianity. Physical Review Letters,

Quantum thermodynamics studies how quantum systems and operations may be exploited as sources of work to perform useful thermodynamic tasks. In real-world conditions, the evolution of open quantum systems typically displays memory effects, resulting... Read More about Quantum Processes as Thermodynamic Resources: The Role of Non-Markovianity.

Robustness- and weight-based resource measures without convexity restriction: Multicopy witness and operational advantage in static and dynamical quantum resource theories (2024)
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Kuroiwa, K., Takagi, R., Adesso, G., & Yamasaki, H. (2024). Robustness- and weight-based resource measures without convexity restriction: Multicopy witness and operational advantage in static and dynamical quantum resource theories. Physical Review A, 109(4), Article 042403. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.109.042403

Quantum resource theories (QRTs) provide a unified framework to analyze quantum properties as resources for achieving advantages in quantum information processing. The generalized robustness and the weight of resource have been gaining increasing att... Read More about Robustness- and weight-based resource measures without convexity restriction: Multicopy witness and operational advantage in static and dynamical quantum resource theories.

Every quantum helps: Operational advantage of quantum resources beyond convexity (2024)
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Kuroiwa, K., Takagi, R., Adesso, G., & Yamasaki, H. (2024). Every quantum helps: Operational advantage of quantum resources beyond convexity. Physical Review Letters, 132(15), Article 150201. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.150201

Identifying what quantum-mechanical properties are useful to untap a superior performance in quantum technologies is a pivotal question. Quantum resource theories provide a unified framework to analyze and understand such properties, as successfully... Read More about Every quantum helps: Operational advantage of quantum resources beyond convexity.

A Post-Quantum Associative Memory (2023)
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Lami, L., Goldwater, D., & Adesso, G. (2023). A Post-Quantum Associative Memory. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 56(45), Article 455304. https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/acfeb7

Associative memories are devices storing information that can be fully retrieved given partial disclosure of it. We examine a toy model of associative memory and the ultimate limitations it is subjected to within the framework of general probabilisti... Read More about A Post-Quantum Associative Memory.

Fundamental limitations to key distillation from Gaussian states with Gaussian operations (2023)
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Lami, L., Mišta, L., & Adesso, G. (2023). Fundamental limitations to key distillation from Gaussian states with Gaussian operations. Physical Review Research, 5(3), Article 033153. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.033153

We establish fundamental upper bounds on the amount of secret key that can be extracted from quantum Gaussian states by using only local Gaussian operations, local classical processing, and public communication. For one-way public communication, or w... Read More about Fundamental limitations to key distillation from Gaussian states with Gaussian operations.

Towards the ultimate brain: Exploring scientific discovery with ChatGPT AI (2023)
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Adesso, G. (2023). Towards the ultimate brain: Exploring scientific discovery with ChatGPT AI. AI Magazine, 44(3), 328-342. https://doi.org/10.1002/aaai.12113

This paper presents a novel approach to scientific discovery using an artificial intelligence (AI) environment known as ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI. This is the first paper entirely generated with outputs from ChatGPT. We demonstrate how ChatGPT can... Read More about Towards the ultimate brain: Exploring scientific discovery with ChatGPT AI.

Catalytic Gaussian thermal operations (2022)
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Yadin, B., Jee, H., Sparaciari, C., Adesso, G., & Serafini, A. (2022). Catalytic Gaussian thermal operations. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 55(32), Article 325301. https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/ac7e09

We examine the problem of state transformations in the framework of Gaussian thermal resource theory in the presence of catalysts. To this end, we introduce an expedient parametrisation of covariance matrices in terms of principal mode temperatures a... Read More about Catalytic Gaussian thermal operations.

Quantum-enhanced passive remote sensing (2022)
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Köse, E., Adesso, G., & Braun, D. (2022). Quantum-enhanced passive remote sensing. Physical Review A, 106(1), Article 012601. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.106.012601

We investigate theoretically the ultimate resolution that can be achieved with passive remote sensing in the microwave regime used, e.g., on board of satellites observing Earth, such as the soil moisture and ocean salinity (SMOS) mission. We give a f... Read More about Quantum-enhanced passive remote sensing.

Holographic entanglement in spin network states: A focused review (2022)
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Colafranceschi, E., & Adesso, G. (2022). Holographic entanglement in spin network states: A focused review. AVS Quantum Science, 4(2), Article 025901. https://doi.org/10.1116/5.0087122

In the long-standing quest to reconcile gravity with quantum mechanics, profound connections have been unveiled between concepts traditionally pertaining to a quantum information theory, such as entanglement, and constitutive features of gravity, lik... Read More about Holographic entanglement in spin network states: A focused review.

Activation of indistinguishability-based quantum coherence for enhanced metrological applications with particle statistics imprint (2022)
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Sun, K., Liu, Z.-H., Wang, Y., Hao, Z.-Y., Xu, X.-Y., Xu, J.-S., Li, C.-F., Guo, G.-C., Castellini, A., Lami, L., Winter, A., Adesso, G., Compagno, G., & Lo Franco, R. (2022). Activation of indistinguishability-based quantum coherence for enhanced metrological applications with particle statistics imprint. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(21), Article e2119765119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.211976511

Quantum coherence, an essential feature of quantum mechanics allowing quantum superposition of states, is a resource for quantum information processing. Coherence emerges in a fundamentally different way for nonidentical and identical particles. For... Read More about Activation of indistinguishability-based quantum coherence for enhanced metrological applications with particle statistics imprint.

Thermality versus objectivity: Can they peacefully coexist? (2021)
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Le, T. P., Winter, A., & Adesso, G. (2021). Thermality versus objectivity: Can they peacefully coexist?. Entropy, 23(11), Article 1506. https://doi.org/10.3390/e23111506

Under the influence of external environments, quantum systems can undergo various different processes, including decoherence and equilibration. We observe that macroscopic objects are both objective and thermal, thus leading to the expectation that b... Read More about Thermality versus objectivity: Can they peacefully coexist?.

General Expressions for the Quantum Fisher Information Matrix with Applications to Discrete Quantum Imaging (2021)
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Fiderer, L. J., Tufarelli, T., Adesso, G., & Piano, S. (2021). General Expressions for the Quantum Fisher Information Matrix with Applications to Discrete Quantum Imaging. PRX Quantum, 2(2), Article 020308. https://doi.org/10.1103/prxquantum.2.020308

The quantum Fisher information matrix is a central object in multiparameter quantum estimation theory. It is usually challenging to obtain analytical expressions for it because most calculation methods rely on the diagonalization of the density matri... Read More about General Expressions for the Quantum Fisher Information Matrix with Applications to Discrete Quantum Imaging.

Quantum secure learning with classical samples (2021)
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Song, W., Lim, Y., Kwon, H., Adesso, G., Wieśniak, M., Pawłowski, M., Kim, J., & Bang, J. (2021). Quantum secure learning with classical samples. Physical Review A, 103(4), Article 042409. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.103.042409

Studies addressing the question “Can a learner complete the learning securely?” have recently been spurred from the standpoints of fundamental theory and potential applications. In the relevant context of this question, we present a classical-quantum... Read More about Quantum secure learning with classical samples.

Mixing indistinguishable systems leads to a quantum Gibbs paradox (2021)
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Yadin, B., Morris, B., & Adesso, G. (2021). Mixing indistinguishable systems leads to a quantum Gibbs paradox. Nature Communications, 12, Article 1471. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21620-7

The classical Gibbs paradox concerns the entropy change upon mixing two gases. Whether an observer assigns an entropy increase to the process depends on their ability to distinguish the gases. A resolution is that an “ignorant” observer, who cannot d... Read More about Mixing indistinguishable systems leads to a quantum Gibbs paradox.

Analysis of the conditional mutual information in ballistic and diffusive non-equilibrium steady-states (2020)
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Malouf, W. T. B., Goold, J., Adesso, G., & Landi, G. (2020). Analysis of the conditional mutual information in ballistic and diffusive non-equilibrium steady-states. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 53(30), Article 305302. https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/ab93fd

The conditional mutual information (CMI) $\mathcal{I}(A\! : \! C|B)$ quantifies the amount of correlations shared between $A$ and $C$ \emph{given} $B$. It therefore functions as a more general quantifier of bipartite correlations in multipartite scen... Read More about Analysis of the conditional mutual information in ballistic and diffusive non-equilibrium steady-states.

Assisted concentration of Gaussian resources (2020)
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Lami, L., Takagi, R., & Adesso, G. (2020). Assisted concentration of Gaussian resources. Physical Review A, 101(5), Article 052305

In spite of their outstanding experimental relevance, Gaussian operations in continuous-variable quantum systems are subjected to fundamental limitations, as it is known that general resources cannot be distilled within the Gaussian paradigm. We show... Read More about Assisted concentration of Gaussian resources.

Gaussian Thermal Operations and The Limits of Algorithmic Cooling (2020)
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Adesso, G., Serafini, A., Hsieh, C.-Y., Lostaglio, M., Shackerley-Bennett, U., & Longden, S. (2020). Gaussian Thermal Operations and The Limits of Algorithmic Cooling. Physical Review Letters, 124(1), Article 010602. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.124.010602

The study of thermal operations allows one to investigate the ultimate possibilities of quantum states and of nanoscale thermal machines. Whilst fairly general, these results typically do not apply to continuous variable systems and do not take into... Read More about Gaussian Thermal Operations and The Limits of Algorithmic Cooling.

Indistinguishability-enabled coherence for quantum metrology (2019)
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Castellini, A., Lo Franco, R., Lami, L., Winter, A., Adesso, G., & Compagno, G. (2019). Indistinguishability-enabled coherence for quantum metrology. Physical Review A, 100(1), Article 012308. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.100.012308

Quantum coherence plays a fundamental and operational role in different areas of physics. A resource theory has been developed to characterize the coherence of distinguishable particles systems. Here we show that indistinguishability of identical par... Read More about Indistinguishability-enabled coherence for quantum metrology.

Generic bound coherence under strictly incoherent operations (2019)
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Lami, L., Regula, B., & Adesso, G. (2019). Generic bound coherence under strictly incoherent operations. Physical Review Letters, 122(15), Article 150402. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.122.150402

We compute analytically the maximal rates of distillation of quantum coherence under strictly incoherent operations (SIO) and physically incoherent operations (PIO), showing that they coincide for all states, and providing a complete description of t... Read More about Generic bound coherence under strictly incoherent operations.