Quantum Information and Probability: from Foundations to Engineering (QIP24)

Programme for download:

QIP-programme_2024.pdf

Short practical facts:

Main conference auditorium: Myrdal (building K, Linnaeus University, Campus Växjö.
All lunches at Restaurant Kristina (the same building as Room Myrdal). The conference dinner (Thursday, at Teleborg Castle, also on university campus)

To/from the university: Bus No 3 (marked "Universitetet") from downtown towards the university; one can also use buses No 1 and No 5 (marked Teleborg). Get off bus at stop Teleborg-centrum and then walk 300 m to the university. You can buy your ticket on the bus by using your card or you can download an app ("Länstrafiken Kronoberg") and buy tickets with its aid. At the train station you can buy a bus-card and put money on it. There is also a nice walk from downtown to the university along the Växjö-lake. Depending on your physical condition it takes 30-50 min; you can join a group of people who have already been in Växjö.

Tuesday, 11 June

Myrdal
09.00-09.10 Opening Ceremony: Andrei Khrennikov

Myrdal  Chair: Rüdiger Schack
09.10  Christopher A. Fuchs: QBism, Normativity, and the One Axiom to Rule Them All
09.40  John B. DeBrota: Quantum Theory and the Layers of Should

10.10-10.40 Coffee Break

Myrdal  Chair: Christopher A. Fuchs
10.40  Arkady Plotnitsky: “In the language of mathematics”: On mathematical foundations of quantum foundations
11.10  Philippe Grangier: Postulating the Unicity of the Macroscopic Physical World
11.40  Jan-Åke Larsson: Completeness, Contextuality, and Bohmian mechanics

12.15-13.30 Lunch (Restaurant Kristina)

Myrdal  Chair: Jan-Åke Larsson 
13.30  Hans-Thomas Elze: The Dirac equation, mass and arithmetic by permutations
14.00  Lajos Diósi: Postquantum stochastic semiclassical gravity: world without Schrödinger cats
14.30  Theo Nieuwenhuizen: How the vacuum rescues the Lorentz electron and imprints its Newtonian and geodesic motion, and the equivalence principle

15.00-15.10 Short Break

Myrdal  Chair: Natalia Korolkova
15.10  Inge S. Helland: On the foundation of quantum decision theory
15.40  Fabrizio Piacentini: A Quantum Penrose Triangle
16.10  Gregg Jaeger: Particle Ontologies for Local Quantum Physics

16.40-17.00 Coffee Break

17.00-19.00 Contributed talks:

Myrdal  Chair: Theo Nieuwenhuizen
17.00  Andrey Akhmeteli: Plasma-like description for quantum particles and a tensor form of the Dirac equation
17.20  Oded Shor: Relational information framework, causality, unification of quantum interpretations and return to realism through non-ergodicity
17.40  Zohar Schwartzman-Nowik: Metrological advantage of weak measurements in overcoming noise on the primary system
18.00  Jasper van Wezel: Stochastic dynamics of spontaneous unitarity violation
18.20  Daniel Braun: Stochastic emulation of quantum algorithms and the twin-world road to reality
18.40  Marcoen Cabbolet: Disproof of the PBR theorem: God does not play dice!

Wednesday, 12 June

Myrdal  Chair: John B. DeBrota 
09.00  Matthew B. Weiss: QBism for the human sciences: elegant tools for post-classical modeling
09.30  Marcus Appleby: Hilbert's 12th problem and the Geometry of Quantum State Space
10.00  Ingemar Bengtsson: MUBs and SICs in Växjö

10.30-11.00 Coffee Break

Myrdal  Chair: Philippe Grangier
11.00  Marco Genovese: Testing relativistic independence by sequential weak measurements
11.30  Natalia Korolkova: Quantum engineering by non-local and tailored loss
12.00  Karl Svozil: Converting nonlocality into contextuality (and back)
12.30  Marian Kupczynski: Mathematical Modelling of Physical Reality: from Numbers to Quarks and Qubits

13.05-14.00 Lunch (Restaurant Kristina)

14.00-16.30 Special session: Quantum Intersubjective Agreement
Organizer: Scott Glancy

Myrdal  Chair: Scott Glancy
14.00  Masanao Ozawa: Intersubjectivity and value reproducibility of quantum measurements based on quantum perfect correlations
14.30  Rüdiger Schack: First person, second person, third person: QBism and intersubjective agreement
15.00  Jacques Pienaar: Why Wigner’s friends cannot all share the same space-time
15.30  Hervé Zwirn: Convivial Solipsism as a Maximally Perspectival Interpretation
16.00  Amanda Gefter: John Wheeler, Peter Putnam, and the Intersubjective Struggle

16.30-17.00 Coffee Break

16.30-19.00 Contributed talks:

Myrdal  Chair: Hervé Zwirn
17.00  Caroline Jones: Thinking twice inside the box: is Wigner’s friend really quantum?
17.20  Walleghem Laurens: Strong contextuality and Wigner's friends: refining the Frauchiger--Renner paradox
17.40  Jawad Allam: Incompatibility between Unitary Evolution and Instantaneous State Update in Wigner's Friend Scenarios
18.00  Alessandro Candeloro: Intersubjectivity with finite resources
18.20  Eyal Buks: Spontaneous disentanglement and thermalization
18.40  Louis Vervoort: On the possibility of contextual hidden-variable theories: theory and experiments in hydrodynamics

Thursday, 13 June

Special session: Quantum and quantum-like models in biology and medicine. Organizers: Andrei Khrennikov and Gregory D. Scholes

Myrdal  Chair: Carlos Baladron  
09.00  Gregory D. Scholes: Exciton Delocalization and Large Coherent States
09.30  Clarice Aiello: “Quantum Biology”: how nature harnesses quantum processes to function optimally, and how might we control such quantum processes to therapeutic and tech advantage
10.00  Satoshi Iriyama: Mathematical Description of Ultrasonic Effect and Quantum-like Model

10.30-11.00  Coffee Break

Parallel sessions in Myrdal and Weber:

Myrdal (Bio-session, continuation) Chair: Gregory D. Scholes
11.00  Lev Mourokh: VitaCrystallography: Old Approach to New Challenges
11.30  Carlos Baladron: Outline of a microscopic physical model of elementary consciousness
12.00  Felix Benninger: Relational Information-based Machine Learning For the Diagnosis of Epilepsy
12.30  Irina Trofimova: Concepts of piles, bundles and compost in tackling QM transience

Weber (General session)   Chair: Hans-Thomas Elze
11.00  Holger Hofmann: Fact and Fiction in Hilbert Space: Contextuality, Weak Values and Measurement Interactions
11.30  Paolo Perinotti: A theoretical tool for discrete space-time quantum field theory: renormalisation of quantum cellular automata
12.00  Federico Holik: Geometrical aspects of resources distribution in the quantum state space
12.30  Ghenadie Mardari: Super-Quantum Correlations in Classical Systems

13.00-14.00 Lunch (Restaurant Kristina)

Special session: Quantum Methods in Economics and Finance. Organizer: Emmanuel Haven

Myrdal  Chair: Polina Khrennikova
14.00  Emmanuel Haven, Amir Gholizad, James LeBlanc, Vahid Sheigani: Time evolution of potential functions in finance
14.30  Lane Palmer Hughston: Valuation of a Financial Claim Contingent on the Outcome of a Quantum Measurement
15.00  Christoph Gallus: Causal approaches to financial market

15.30  Coffee Break

16.00-17.30 In parallel: Poster session and continuation of the special session on finance

Myrdal   Chair: Emmanuel Haven  
16.00  Polina Khrennikova: Human Centered AI for Financial Decisions
16.30  Will Hicks: Information Entropy of the Financial Market: Modelling Using Open Quantum Systems
17.00  Sudip Patra, Shobhit Mohan: Quantum Bayesian and Hamiltonian Formulation of Contract Theory in Economics

18.00-22.00: Conference dinner (Teleborg Castle)

Posters (Tuesday June 13, 16.10-17.30):

• Murat Hazer Uygunol: Contextuality as the root of the quantum theory
• Sophia Walls: Memory in a sequence of weak and short duration measurements of non-commuting observables
• Christoffer Hindlycke: Single-qubit rotation algorithm with logarithmic Toffoli count and gate depth
• John Small: Non-locality, non-computability and PR boxes from a first person point of view
• Giuseppe Di Pietra: Temporal witnesses of non-classicality in a macroscopic biological system
• Stanislav Filatov: Towards Two Bloch Sphere Representation of Pure Two Qubit States and Unitaries
• Aleksej Gaj: Quantum-like modelling of uncertainty in dynamic decision making
• Hamed Mohammady: Universal validity of the second law of information thermodynamics
• Oded Binder: Objectivity emerging from closed-system equilibration
• Likan Zhan: Quantum-like modelling in decision making
• Michael Schnabel: A Generalization of the Quantum-Question Equality
• Renate C.-Z.-Quehenberger: Higher Dimensional Representations of Qudits
• Miroslav Kárný, Alexej Gaj, Tatiana V. Guy: Quantitative uncertain observation of any phenomenon is to be an observable

Friday, 14 June

Myrdal  Chair: Will Hicks
10.00  Andrei Khrennikov: Quantum-like models in biology, cognition, and AI
10.30  Paolo Rocchi: Discussing Probability Theory in Classical and Quantum Contexts

11.00-11.30 Coffee Break

Myrdal  Chair: Inge S. Helland
11.30  Noboru Watanabe: Note on Entropies for Quantum Dynamical Systems
12.00  William Sulis: Reality Does Not Shine, It Twinkles
12.30  Haruki Emori: Disturbance Evaluation Circuit for Quantum Measurements and Its Experimental Demonstration on a Quantum Computer

12.50  Lunch (Restaurant Kristina)

Parallel sessions in Myrdal and Weber, 14.00-16.00

Myrdal Chair: Gregg Jaeger
14.00  Aritro Mukherjee:  Emergent Born’s statistics via colored noise driven quantum state reduction models obeying no-superluminal signaling.
14.20  Kolahal Bhattacharya: Understanding Nonlocality of the Aharonov-Bohm Effect
14.40  Yves Caudano: Revisiting weak values and quantum uncertainties through non-normality
15.00  Nicolas Fabre: Majorana Stellar Representation of Twisted Photons
15.20 Shubhayan Sarkar: Operationally independent events can influence each other in quantum theory

Weber  Chair:  Federico Holik
14.00  Raman Choudhary: E-principle in n-cycle KS contextuality scenarios and multi-colored Ramsey numbers
14.20  Hou Yau: Particle as a Proper Time Oscillator
14.40  Diego Bussandri: Challenges in certifying quantum teleportation: moving beyond conventional fidelity benchmark
15.00  Carlo Cepollaro: Conservation of entanglement and coherence in quantum reference frame transformations
15.20  Wadim Wormsbecher: Project Qu-Gov: Quantum in Federal Governance

15.40-16.10  Coffee Break

Myrdal Chair: Paolo  Perinotti
16.10  Ian Ford: Toy model illustrating the effect of measurement dependence and dynamical hidden variables on a Bell inequality
16.30  Shashaank Khanna: Classifying Causal Structures: Ascertaining when Classical Correlations are Constrained by Inequalities
16.50  Lorenzo Giannelli: Information-theoretic derivation of energy and speed bounds
17.10  Jonte Hance: Back Action causes the Difference between Classical and Quantum Counterfactual Effects

17.30-17.45  Closing ceremony

• C.D. Aiello (Quantum Biology Tech Lab, USA)
• M. Appleby (University of Sydney, Australia)
• D. Arvidsson Shukur (Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory, UK)
• C. Baladron (University of Valladolid, Spain)
• I. Bengtsson (Stockholm University, Sweden)
• W. Bowen (University of Queensland, Australia)
• J. B. DeBrota (University of New Mexico, USA)
• L. Diósi (Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungary)
• T. Duong (Memorial University, Canada)
• H.-T. Elze (University of Pisa, Italy)
• C. A. Fuchs (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)
• C. Gallus* (THM, Germany)
• A. Gefter (QuEnactivism Institute, USA)
• M. Genovese (INRIM, Italy)
• S. Glancy (NIST, USA)
• P. Grangier (The National Center for Scientific Research, France)
• E. Haven (Memorial University, Canada)
• I. S. Helland (University of Oslo, Norway)
• W. Hicks (Investec Bank PLC, UK and Memorial University, Canada)
• H. Hofmann (Hiroshima University, Japan)
• F. Holik (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• L. P. Hughston (Goldsmiths University of London, UK)
• S. Iriyama (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)
• G. Jaeger (Boston University, USA)
• P. Khrennikova (Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands)
• N. Korolkova (University of St Andrews, UK)
• M. Kupczynski (Universite du Quebec a Hull, Canada)
• J-Å. Larsson (Linköping University, Sweden)
• G. Mardari (Rutgers University, USA)
• L. Murokh (City University of New York, USA)
• T. M. Nieuwenhuizen (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
• M. Ozawa (Nagoya University, Japan)
• S. Patra (Jindal Global University, India)
• F. Piacentini (Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Italy)
• P. Perinotti (University of Pavia, Italy)
• A. Plotnitsky (Purdue University, USA)
• J. Pienaar (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)
• R. Schack (Royal Holloway University of London, UK)
• G. D. Scholes (Princeton University, USA)
• Yu. Shikano (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
• K. Svozil (TU Wien, Austria)
• I. Trofimova (McMaster University, Canada)
• N. Watanabe (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)
• G. Weihs (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
• M. B. Weiss (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)
• H. Zwirn (University of Paris 7, France)  

Quantum Methods in Economics and Finance

Organizer: Emmanuel Haven

Quantum probability and POVM’s have shown to make important inroads in decision making formalisms which underpin most of economic and financial theory. In this session, we shall investigate how other tools from the quantum formalism can be used to great avail in finance. This session will attempt to look at what Hamiltonian frameworks can aid in formalizing information in the asset pricing process. We will consider how an appeal to open systems can lead to promising new results in finance. Other topics such as the future of quantum measurements in finance will also be considered.
Speakers: Trung Duong, Christoph Gallus, Emmanuel Haven, Will Hicks, Lane Palmer Hughston, Polina Khrennikova, Sudip Patra

Quantum Intersubjective Agreement

Organizer: Scott Glancy

Does quantum theory ensure that measurements made by different people must agree with one another, or does it ensure that situations may arise in which people must disagree? This question of "intersubjective agreement" has been lurking in quantum theory for decades, and recent "extended Wigner's friend" thought experiments have added precision and clarity to the issue. This special session will explore what different interpretations of quantum theory say about intersubjective agreement and its implications.
Speakers: Masanao Ozawa, Rüdiger Schack, Amanda Gefter, Hervé Zwirn, Jacques Pienaar

Quantum and quantum-like models in biology and medicine

Organizer: Andrei Khrennikov

This session is devoted to quantum and quantum-like modelling of biological processes. Quantum information revolution has a big impact not only in physics (by treating quantum systems as carriers of information), but also outside of it, e.g., in cognition, biology and recently in medical diagnostics. Such models are known as quantum-like and they explore the methods and methodology of quantum theory for investigation of generally macroscopic biological information processors. On the other hand, today’s bioscience pushes the limits of conventional measurement, so quantum measurement methods may become the only recourse to achieve better resolutions, higher sensitivities, and reduce damage to fragile bio-targets. Hence, the study of genuine quantum processes in biosystems is very important. While the field is driven by practical applications, at issue are a range of fundamental phenomena that may have a significant impact on how we understand the world we live in and the role of quantum mechanics in it.
Speakers: C. D. Aiello, Carlos Baladron, Felix Benninger, Satoshi Iriyama, Lev Murokh; Gregory Scholes, Oded Shor, Irina Trofimova

In alphabetical order:

QIP-abstracts_2024_5June.pdf

QIP-posters_2024_7June.pdf

The registration has closed.

• C. Baladron (University of Valladolid, Spain)
• C. A. Fuchs (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)
• S. Glancy (NIST, USA)
• E. Haven (Memorial University, Canada)
• N. Korolkova (University of St Andrews, UK)
• M. Ozawa (Nagoya University, Japan)
• S. Polyakov (NIST, USA)
• I. Trofimova (McMaster University, Canada)