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Out now in Physical Review Research “Certifying high-dimensional quantum channels” demonstrates the efficient characterization of high-dimensional quantum channels, a key ingredient for future quantum communication technologies. Sophie adapted and developed witnesses from quantum states and their entanglement, to witness the quality of large quantum channels.

https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/bwd5-wx7j
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15880

We’re absolutely thrilled to share that our own Professor Mehul Malik has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), Scotland’s national academy of science and letters!

This is a huge honour that recognises individuals who have made exceptional contributions to their fields. Mehul will join around 1,800 RSE Fellows who are leading experts in the sciences, arts, business, professions, and the third and public sectors, with links to Scotland. Past Fellows of the RSE include theoretical physicist Peter Higgs, James Clerk Maxwell, who is most famous for his theory of electromagnetism, American scientist Benjamin Franklin, and now, Mehul. No pressure!

Congratulations, Mehul! We’re so excited to celebrate this milestone with you.

Yes, these last few weeks we’ve welcomed two new postdocs and a visiting PhD student to the group. Already introduced to all 4 seasons of Scotland, a table full (really full) of delicious foods, and of course the beginning of lots more new science!

Sugandh joins us from Meerut, India and completed her PhD recently from IIT Madras. Bohnishikha grew up in Chennai, India, and recently received her PhD from the University of Warsaw in Poland. Kiran is currently a PhD student in the group of Prof Sushil Mujumdar at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India.

Check out our people page for their backgrounds and journeys before BBQLab!

Sophie went to Dublin’s Trinity College on monday (15-19th July) to attend and present at The Templeton foundation’s international conference “Emergence of Classicality: New Perspectives on Measurements in Quantum Theory” (EoC24) bringing together leading experts on topics in the foundation of quantum physics. Joining an esteemed program of speakers she followed Jaroslaw Korbicz to present “Equilibration of objective observables in a dynamical model of quantum measurements” (https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18016).

The conference is devoted to quantum measurement, quantum paradoxes, the emergence of classicality and objectivity, quantum thermodynamics, equilibrium of closed systems and experiments. Alongside pontificating on foundational questions of QM they enjoyed some local culture and joined a Cèilidh….all together now… join hands, swing across in a star, face partners, set twice. Spin partners and dance a grand chain round…. 2, 3, 4… and from the top…