Recent news

September 2025

• Our work Optimal Trace-Distance Bounds for Free-Fermionic States: Testing and Improved Tomography was published in PRX Quantum 6, 030341 (2025) — APS link, arXiv:2409.17953.
• Our paper A complete theory of the Clifford commutant was accepted as a talk at TQC 2025 — arXiv:2504.12263.

August 2025

• I was invited as a lecturer at the QMATH Masterclass (Copenhagen), giving a crash course on representation theory, lectures on Haar-measure tools, and a lecture on the Clifford commutant.
  Notes (PDF) · Haar tutorial (Quantum Journal) · Clifford slides ( Slides (PDF))
• I gave a public talk at TEDx Policoro (Italy) on quantum computing, together with my twin brother — event page.

July 2025

• I served on the program committee of QTML 2025.
• I presented our work Effect of noise in typical quantum circuits at the Understanding Quantum Machine Learning Workshop (GGI, Florence) — program. Slides.
• I joined the Clifford commutant workshop (Cologne), organized around our paper A complete theory of the Clifford commutant — workshop info.
• We posted two new preprints on quantum resource theories:
  – Analyzing the free states of one resource theory as resource states of another — arXiv:2507.11793.
  – A unified approach to quantum resource theories and a new class of free operations — arXiv:2507.10851.

June 2025

• We posted the preprint Characterizing quantum resourcefulness via group-Fourier decompositions — arXiv:2506.19696.

May 2025

• I gave invited seminars at the Perimeter Institute (Waterloo) and the Higgs Centre (Edinburgh) on Learning and testing quantum states of fermionic systems (Slides) and Effect of noise in typical quantum circuits (Slides).

April 2025

• I gave an invited seminar at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa) on Effect of noise in typical quantum circuits Slides.
• We posted the preprint A complete theory of the Clifford commutant — arXiv:2504.12263.

Jan–Feb 2025

• Our work was accepted for two talks at QIP 2025:
  – Learning and testing quantum states of fermionic systems — Slides, video.
  – Tomography of bosonic systems and optimal estimates of the trace distance between Gaussian states — video.
• Efficient learning of quantum states prepared with few fermionic non-Gaussian gates published in PRX Quantum 6, 010319 (2025) — APS link.
• Real classical shadows published in J. Phys. A 58, 245304 (2025).
• We posted the preprint Simulating quantum circuits with arbitrary local noise using Pauli Propagation — arXiv:2501.13101.

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Some highlights before 2025

• 2024: I served on the program committee of QIP 2025.
• 2024: Research intern at the LANL Quantum Computing Summer School (Los Alamos, USA) (acceptance ratio <3%), working with Marco Cerezo on quantum resource theories.
• 2024: Learning fermionic correlations by evolving with random translationally invariant Hamiltonians published in PRL 133, 240604 (2024) — APS link.
• 2024: Noise-induced shallow circuits and absence of barren plateaus accepted as a talk at TQC 2024: slides, video.
• 2024: Learning quantum states of continuous variable systems accepted as a talk at TQC 2024 — video.
• 2024 (preprints): Learning quantum states of continuous variable systems (now Nature Physics, in press) · Random ensembles of symplectic and unitary states are indistinguishable · Experimental measurement and interpretation of quantum shadow enumerators.
• 2024: Introduction to Haar Measure Tools in Quantum Information published in Quantum 8, 1340 (2024): Quantum Journal.