Elisabetta PALADINO

Research Interests

Present research interests are quantum dynamics of open systems and quantum control of nanodevices for quantum computation. Research lines are

1) Dynamics and control of nanodevices for quantum computing (since 2001)

2) Noise in mesoscopic devices (since 2006).

3) Quantum mechanics of dissipative systems (since 1996).

4) Quantum correlations in systems formed by few degrees of freedom (1994 - 1996).

The above activities have been done in collaborations with University of Genova (I), SNS Pisa (I), University of Stuttgart (D), TU Delft (NL), University of Marseille (F) and within national and EU projects. She is author of about 80 publications in international peered journals and reviews among which one article published in Communication Physics in 2020, two articles in Scientific Reports in 2015 and 2019, and a review article  published in Rev. Mod. Phys. in 2014. She has given more than 50 oral presentations, 30 invited contributions, 10 invited talks at italian and foreign Universities. The international visibility of the research activity is confirmed by the invitation to the Nobel Symposium 2009 “Qubits for future quantum computers”, Nobel Symposium 141, May 25-28,2009 in Göteborg, Sweden, presentation title "Advanced quantum control and noise in nanodevices".

Research projects

QuantERA call 2019, national coordinator of the project SiUCs "Superinductor-based quantum technologies with Ultra-Strong Couplings ". Since 1997 she collaborated to 13 national and international research projects (5 EU – IST). She has been PI of the Galileo Project 2013 “Mesoscopic detectors' quantum back-action effects in the measurement of coherent nano-devices: fluctuation dissipation relations and finite frequency current cumulants”, in collaboration with Marseille University, Centre de Physique Theorique (Prof. T. Martin), and of the “progetto di ricerca di Ateneo” 2008 entitled ''Processi Fisico-Chimici su grani''.

Research-related public service positions

She is associate researcher at the CNR-IMM UOS Catania (Università) Matis group since 2004, since 2013 she is associate researcher of the INFN. Since 2010 she is partecipates to the PhD commettee in Physics of Catania University.

Commission of Trust
Since 2016 Coordinator for international mobility and Erasmus for the Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Catania.

Other Activities

Meeting organization

° Director of the Course “1/f noise: form condensed matter physics to quantum technology”, Ettore Majorana Foundation and Center for Scientific Culture (EMFCSC), September 6-11, 2020, Erice, I.

 °Chair of the Italian Quantum Information Science Conference, IQIS18, September 17-20, 2018, Catania, I.

° Member of the Advisory board of the next 28th Low Temperature Physics Conference, LT28, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2017.

° Co-organizer of the International Workshop on Nanoscale dynamics, coherence and computation e MCRTN meeting, Catania September 26 - 28 2005.

° Co-organizzer (with T.M. Nieuwenhuizen and M. Grifoni), of the Workshop Hot Topics in Quantum Statistical Physics: q-Thermodynamics, q-Decoherence and q-Motors, August 11 - 16 2003, Lorentz Center - University of Leiden (The Netherlands).

° Co-organizer of the “joint TMR-COST P5 workshop” Mesoscopic Eletronics, Catania, October 17 -19 2002.

° Co-organizer of the 1st TMR/IST Joint Meeting: Dynamics of nanofabricated superconducting circuits - Superconducting Qubits, Catania, September 24 - 26 2000.

Referee assignements

She is referee for Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Physical Review A, New Journal of Physics, Europhysics Letters, Journal of Modern Optics B, Physics Letters A, Physica B, Physica C, Physica E, European Physical Journal, Journal of Applied Physics.

She has been Guest Editor of the New Journal of Physics Special Issue “Quantum dissipation in unconventional environments”, November 2008 (M. Grifoni Editorial Board, E Paladino Guest Editor).

Last update March 19, 2020.

Svolge la propria attività di ricerca a carattere teorico nell'ambito della fisica dello stato solido ed in particolare su nano-dispositivi superconduttori di interesse per l'informazione quantistica. L'attività si inserisce nell'ambito di uno dei filoni principali di ricerca del programma Horizon 2020 sul possibile uso di sistemi quantistici a scopi tecnologici (flagship Quantum Technologies). La ricerca si articola in diverse linee in collaborazione con gruppi sia nazionali che internazionali e nell'ambito di progetti di ricerca EU o bilaterali.

Temi principali di ricerca sono la meccanica quantistica dei sistemi complessi e la computazione quantistica con nanodispositivi superconduttivi. Le linee di ricerca sono

1. Decoerenza e tecniche avanzate di controllo quantistico in nanodispositivi coerenti.

2. Rumore quantistico in sistemi mesoscopici.

3. Meccanica quantistica dei sistemi dissipativi.

Nell'ambito della linea 1) coordina a Catania il gruppo di ricerca su controllo quantistico in networks distribuiti supervisionando l'attività di dottorandi e post-doc. Nell'ambito delle linee 2) e 3) coordina le attività del gruppo di ricerca nell'ambito di collaborazioni nazionali ed internazionali (come PI o come partecipante).

OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

She has taken part as a speaker to Pint of Science Catania in 2017 and as a team member in PoS 2018 and PoS 2019.
She contributed as speaker to European Researchers Night - Sharper 2018.

The funding of the QuantERA project SiUCs has been advertized by an interview given for Radio Zammu' in October 2019

http://www.radiozammu.it/siucs-un-progetto-catanese-tra-le-eccellenze-europee.htm?fbclid=IwAR3VxRhXpMw6Oxugio7coqWqA9FQhqisQTHbvXAbc-fLWJgs_Oy71DngBps

The publication on the article "1/ f noise: Implications for solid-state quantum information" E. Paladino, Y. Galperin, G. Falci, B. Altshuler Rev. Mod. Phys 86, 361 (2014) has been advertized on different media:

- Bollettino d'Ateneo dell'Università di Catania il 22/04/2014

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- National press:

Repubblica Scienze il 10/05/14
http://www.repubblica.it/scienze/2014/05/10/news/computer_quantistici_pi_stabili-85774174/

La Stampa Tecnologia  l'11/05/14
http://www.lastampa.it/2014/05/11/tecnologia/il-computer-del-futuro-sar-quantistico-7Y4j05JdQ5Ifqwr7ssiKtN/pagina.html

ansa Sicilia del 30/10/14
http://www.ansa.it/sicilia/notizie/speciali/2014/05/10/pc-quantistici-piu-stabili-verso-ok_4e2c6b3e-5638-4892-ac37-e31284a25902.html

and local press: CataniaReport e Gazzetta di Sicilia il 22/05/14, KataNews il 28/05/14.