December 27: "Maximum nonlocality in the (3,2,2) scenario", in collaboration with Sheila López-Rosa and Zhen-Peng Xu, published as
Phys. Rev. A 94, 6, 062121 (2016). Recent photo of the group in which you can see the three of us.
December 20: "Device-independent certification of a nonprojective qubit measurement", in collaboration with
Esteban S. Gómez,
Santiago Gómez,
Pablo González,
Gustavo Cañas,
Johanna F. Barra,
Aldo Delgado,
Guilherme B. Xavier,
Matthias Kleinmann,
Tamás Vértesi and
Gustavo Lima,
published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 26, 260401 (2016).
Photos (by Pablo González): Pablo, Esteban, Santiago, Gustavo (Lima), Guilherme, Aldo and Nicolás, with Gustavo, Paulina, Gustavo (Cañas), Elena, Pablo, Carmen and Matthias in Concepción in December 2015.
December 16: Physics Today, in its online version, pays attention to our "Thermodynamical cost of some interpretations of quantum theory". Read Steven K. Blau's "Thermodynamics constrains interpretations of quantum mechanics".
December 12: Postdoctoral fellow in foundations of quantum theory and quantum information at Stockholm University.
December 9-19: Hong Kong. Photos:
The Peak:
1,
2,
3 (photo by Matthias Kleinmann).
Shek O:
1,
2,
3,
4,
5.
Tin Hau Temple in Joss House Bay:
1,
2.
Cablecar to the Tian Tan Buddha:
1,
2,
3,
4.
Skyline:
1,
2,
3.
SoHo:
1.
Dim sum:
1,
2,
3,
4
Ding dings and other hardware for trasportation in 3D:
1,
2.
Xiangqi (Chinese chess):
1.
Views from the window of my hotel:
1,
2.
Working at the University of Hong Kong,
with Matthias, Giulio and
Markus:
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7 (photos 1 and 3-7 by Debbie Leung),
group.
Happy ending.
December 9: "The unspeakable why",
in R. Bertlmann and A. Zeilinger (eds.),
Quantum [Us]Speakables II: Half a Century of Bell's Theorem (Springer, Switzerland, 2016), p. 189,
posted as arXiv:1612.02680 [quant-ph].
December 2: "Maximum nonlocality in the (3,2,2) scenario", in collaboration with Sheila López-Rosa and Zhen-Peng Xu, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. A.
December 1: More than 100,000 people have contributed to the BIG Bell Test! Amazing.
November 30: The BIG Bell test.
November 23: "Thermodynamical cost of some interpretations of quantum theory", in collaboration with
Mile Gu,
Otfried Gühne,
Jan-Åke Larsson and
Karoline Wiesner,
published as Phys. Rev. A 94, 5, 052127 (2016).
Photo with Jan-Åke, Mile, Karoline and Otfried in Siegen, September 2014, permutation with superdeterminism and hidden variables (photos by Alex Monrás).
November 23: "Nonlocality from local contextuality", in collaboration with
Bi-Heng Liu, Xiao-Min Hu, Jiang-Shan Chen,
Yun-Feng Huang,
Yong-Jian Han,
Chuan-Feng Li and
Guang-Can Guo,
published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 22, 220402 (2016).
Photo (from left to right) Xiao-Min Hu, Bi-Heng Liu, Chuan-Feng Li and Yong-Jian Han in Hefei.
November 23: Talk at the Universidad de Granada.
November 18: "Device-independent certification of a nonprojective qubit measurement", in collaboration with
Esteban S. Gómez,
Santiago Gómez,
Pablo González,
Gustavo Cañas,
Johanna F. Barra,
Aldo Delgado,
Guilherme B. Xavier,
Matthias Kleinmann,
Tamás Vértesi and
Gustavo Lima, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett.
November 18: "Proposed experiment to test fundamentally binary theories", in collaboration with Matthias Kleinmann and Tamás Vértesi, posted as arXiv:1611.05761 [quant-ph].
November 16: (17:00) Talk at the Facultad de Física, Universidad de Sevilla; (21:00) talk at "Ciencia en el Bulebar".
November 14: Super moon from Sevilla.
November 11: Help us to make it BIG!!!
November 8: "Maximum nonlocality in the (3,2,2) scenario", in collaboration with Sheila López-Rosa and Zhen-Peng Xu, posted as arXiv:1611.01699 [quant-ph]. Recent photo of the group in which you can see the three of us.
November 7: Breakfast with high school students "Café con Ciencia", Sevilla.
Photos (by Mª Carmen Escámez):
1,
2.
November 3: 3rd Foro tecnológico sobre el futuro de las tecnologías cuánticas en Europa, CSIC, Madrid.
November 1: "Thermodynamical cost of some interpretations of quantum theory", in collaboration with
Mile Gu,
Otfried Gühne,
Jan-Åke Larsson and
Karoline Wiesner, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. A.
Photo with Jan-Åke, Mile, Karoline and Otfried in Siegen, September 2014, permutation with superdeterminism and hidden variables (photos by Alex Monrás).
October 30: "Nonlocality from local contextuality", in collaboration with
Bi-Heng Liu, Xiao-Min Hu, Jiang-Shan Chen,
Yun-Feng Huang,
Yong-Jian Han,
Chuan-Feng Li and
Guang-Can Guo, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett..
October 17-21: Keynote speaker at the 2nd International Conference "Quantum Foundations 2016", Patna.
Group photo. More photos:
Stupa of Buddha Smriti Park, Patna: 1.
Mahavir Mandir (or Hanuman Mandir) Hindu temple and sorroundings, Patna:
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7.
Takht Sri Patna Sahib, Gurdwara (Sikh place of worship) in the neighborhood of Patna Sahib:
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6 (with Lev Vaidman),
5 (group photo).
Nalanda:
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9.
Jal Mandir (water temple) in Pawapuri:
1,
2,
3,
4.
Vishwa Shanti Stupa (World Peace Pagoda) in Rajgir:
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7 (photo by Costantino Budroni).
October 14: "Los físicos te necesitan", TV.
October 7: "Quantum correlations are stronger than all nonsignaling correlations produced by n-outcome measurements", in collaboration with Matthias Kleinmann, published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 15, 150401 (2016). The making of figure 1: The definitive story in four photographs:
1,
2,
3,
4.
Photo with Matthias in Chile, in January 2015.
October 3: The BIG Bell test campaign starts:
ABC,
SINC,
Antena 3,
Austrian Academy of Sciences,
Der Standard (Austria),
Universidad de Sevilla,
20 Minutos (Sevilla),
Tele Basel,
El Mundo,
Radio W (Colombia).
September 28: New photo of the group. From left to right: Diego Frustaglia, José Pablo Baltanás, Sheila López-Rosa, José Ramón Portillo, Adán Cabello, Antonio López Tarrida and Zhen-Peng Xu.
September 16: "Quantum correlations are stronger than all nonsignaling correlations produced by n-outcome measurements", in collaboration with Matthias Kleinmann, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett.
Matthias and Adán in Chile, in January 2015.
August 30: "Quantum state-independent contextuality requires 13 rays",
in collaboration with Matthias Kleinmann, published as J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 49, 38, 38LT01 (2016).
Photo: Matthias, Adán, and Josera in Sevilla in May 2016.
July 20: "Experimental demonstration of the connection between quantum contextuality and graph theory",
in collaboration with
Gustavo Cañas,
Evelyn Acuña,
Jaime Cariñe,
Johanna F. Barra,
Esteban S. Gómez,
Guilherme B. Xavier and
Gustavo Lima, published as
Phys. Rev. A 94, 1, 012337 (2016).
Photos:
Adán, Evelyn, Gustavo (Cañas) and "Fisher 9" in Concepción, last December and
the experiment.
July 7-8: Our recent Phys. Rev. Lett. has attracted some attention of the media: SINC, 20 Minutos,
Diario de Sevilla.
July 1: PhysOrg pays attention to our recent Phys. Rev. Lett. Read the excellent 'Quantum' bounds not so quantum after all by Lisa Zyga.
June 28: "Classical physics and the bounds of quantum correlations",
in collaboration with
María del Castillo Velázquez-Ahumada,
Armando Fernández-Prieto,
Aintzane Lujambio,
Vicente Losada and
Manuel J. Freire, published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 25, 250404 (2016).
Photo:
Manuel, Vicente, Adán, Diego, José Pablo, Armando, and Casti at the microwaves lab of the University of Sevilla.
May 2-7: Matthias Kleinmann visits us.
April 28: "Quantum nonlocality via local contextuality with qubit-qubit entanglement", in collaboration with
Debashis Saha,
Sujit K. Choudhary,
and Marcin Pawłowski, published as Phys. Rev. A 93, 4, 042123 (2016).
April 7: "Experimental proof that a qubit is more than a quantum coin", in collaboration with
Esteban S. Gómez,
Santiago Gómez,
Pablo González,
Gustavo Cañas,
Johanna F. Barra,
Aldo Delgado,
Guilherme B. Xavier,
Matthias Kleinmann,
Tamás Vértesi and
Gustavo Lima,
posted as
arXiv:1604.01417 [quant-ph].
March 29: "Experimental test of the free will theorem", in collaboration with
Bi-Heng Liu, Xiao-Min Hu, Jiang-Shan Chen,
Yun-Feng Huang,
Yong-Jian Han,
Chuan-Feng Li and
Guang-Can Guo,
posted as
arXiv:1603.08254 [quant-ph].
Photo (from left to right) Xiao-Min Hu, Bi-Heng Liu, Chuan-Feng Li and Yong-Jian Han in Hefei.
March 13-26: Armin Tavakoli visits us.
March 1: "Simple method for experimentally testing any form of quantum contextuality", published as Phys. Rev. A 93, 3, 032102 (2016).
February 29: Our prediction of monogamy between the quantum violations of the KCBS and CHSH inequalities has been tested by X. Zhan, X. Zhang, J. Li, Y. Zhang, B. C. Sanders and P. Xue. Their paper is Editor's Suggestion this week in Phys. Rev. Lett.
February 16: "Certifying the presence of a photonic qubit by splitting it in two", in collaboration with
Evan Meyer-Scott,
Daniel McCloskey,
Klaudia Gołos,
Jeff Z. Salvail,
Kent A. G. Fisher,
Deny Hamel,
Kevin J. Resch and
Thomas Jennewein,
published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 7, 070501 (2016) (and Editor's Suggestion).
