10 Jun 2025 - 13 Jun 2025 All day

International Conference

Quantum Information and Probability: from Foundations to Engineering (QIP25)

The jubilee Växjö-25 conference on quantum foundations will take place in 2025, June 10-13 (arrival June 9 and departure June 14). This is the Silver Jubilee of the longest continuous series of conferences on quantum foundations.

Submission of abstracts for poster session is open until May 15, but there is no more place for oral contributed talks.

The QIP25-conference will be based on the talks of invited speakers (30 min including questions) and contributed talks (20 min including questions). For contributed talks, the acceptance decision will be done based on the abstract, so please start with registration (without paying the fee) and abstract submission. After the positive reply, one goes back to the registration form and pays the org. fee. For graduate and postgraduate students, a poster-presentation is preferable, because a poster would get higher visibility than a talk in one of a few parallel sessions. The journal Entropy supports the awards for the two best posters with 350 and 150 Swiss francs respectively.

The conference is arranged by International Centre for Mathematical Modelling in physics, engineering and cognitive sciences (ICMM). Quantum information revolution (also known as the second quantum revolution) has not only big technological impact, but also stimulates foundational studies. We invite all kinds of contributions devoted to quantum foundations, especially (but not exclusively) with coupling to quantum information, probability, and measurement theory, use of quantum computers in foundational research as well quantum-like modeling – applications of the quantum information theory in cognition, decision making, biology, medicine.

In June 2025 the quantum community will celebrate 100 years of Heisenberg’s discovery of quantum mechanics — as matrix mechanics. At QIP25 this event will be highlighted via the special session (org. Arkady Plotnitsky).

Other special sessions are on the recent achievements of Bohmian mechanics (org. Scott Glancy), Pilot-wave hydrodynamics: experiments, theory, and foundational implications (org. Louis Vervoort), quantum information biology (org. Gergory Scholes), and quantum-like modeling (org. Andrei Khrennikov).

Information about the program, invited speakers, travel details, and more will be updated here. Please come back to this place for all relevant information!

Organizing Committee

S. Glancy (NIST)
E. Haven (Memorial University, Canada)
A. Khrennikov (Linnaeus University)
A. Plotnitsky (Purdue University)
G.D. Scholes (Princeton University)
K. Svozil (TU Wien, Austria)
L. Vervoort (HSE University)

Scientific Committee

Hans-Thomas Elze (University of Piza)
Lajos Diósi (Wigner Research Centre for Physics)
Lev Vaidman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Giuseppe Vitiello (University of Salerno)

Invited Speakers

QIP 2025 Speakers.pdf

L. Accardi (University of Rome Torvergata, Italy)
F. Bagarello (Technical University of Palermo, Italy)
C. Baladron (University of Valladolid, Spain)
I. Bengtsson (Stockholm University, Sweden)
F. Benninger (University of Tel Aviv, Israel)
P. Bessarab (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
J. Bisquert (Instituto de Tecnología Química (UPV-CSIC), Spain)
J. Bush (MIT, USA)
A.M. Cetto (National Autonomous University of Mexico).
B. Coecke (Quantinuum, UK)
S. Creemers (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
F. De Martini (Universita la Sapienza, Italy)
L. Diósi (Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungary)
F. Dubois (University Paris-Sud, Orsay, France)
H.-T. Elze (University of Pisa, Italy)
M. Fuyama (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
C. Gallus (THM, Germany)
M. Genovese (INRIM, Italy)
S. Glancy (NIST, USA)
P. Grangier (The National Center for Scientific Research, France)
T. Guy (Czech Academy of Sciences)
P. Hammond (Stanford University, USA
J. Hance (University of Bristol, UK)
E. Haven (Memorial University, Canada)
W. Hicks (CQSCS, Canada)
H. Hofmann (Hiroshima University, Japan)
G. Jaeger (Boston University, USA)
A. Khrennikov (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
P. Khrennikova (Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands)
M. Kupczynski (Universite du Quebec a Hull, Canada)
J-Å. Larsson (Linköping University, Sweden)
Y. Makiko (Institute for Quantum Life Science, Japan)
L. Murokh (City University of New York, USA)
T. M. Nieuwenhuizen (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
A. Olaya-Castro (University College London,UK)
M. Ozawa (Nagoya University, Japan)
K. Papatryfonos (Universite Paris Saclay, France)
A. Pearson (Quantinuum, UK)
F. Piacentini (Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Italy)
P. Perinotti (University of Pavia, Italy)
A. Plotnitsky (Purdue University, USA)
S. Polyakov (NIST, USA)
G. D. Scholes (Princeton University, USA)
Yu. Shikano (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
S. Sozzo (University of Udine, Italy)
D. Spector (Hobart and William Smith College, USA)
W. Sulis (McMaster University, Canada
K. Svozil (TU Wien, Austria)
Z. Toffano (University of Paris-Saclay, France)
I. Trofimova (McMaster University, Canada)
N. Tsuchiya (ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, Japan)
L. Vaidman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
L. Vervoort (Higher School of Economics, Russia)
G. Vitiello (University of Salerno, Italy)
H. Zwirn (University of Paris 7, France)

Special Sessions

After Heisenberg: The concept of matrix in quantum theory, from matrix mechanics to quantum gravity.

Invited speakers: Arkady Plotnitsky (organizer), Mauro D' Ariano, Greg Jaeger, Paolo Perinotti, Don Spector.

Summary: This special session celebrates a centenary of Werner Heisenberg’s discovery of quantum mechanics (as matrix mechanics), one of the greatest discoveries in physics. It is comparable to Newton’s discovery of classical mechanics (together with differential calculus) and Einstein’s discovery of general relativity, and might even be ultimately more important in revealing the nature of physical reality. In aiming to affirm the significance--physical, mathematical, and philosophical--of Heisenberg’s contribution, this session is not only historical but is also and indeed primarily conceptual. It considers the implications of the idea of matrix and others concepts of Heisenberg’s new mechanics for the subsequent development of quantum theory, from the invention QED to our own time. The thinking of Dirac, the founder (together with P. Jordan) of QED, was inspired and shaped by his encounter with Heisenberg’s work, including his reading of Heisenberg’s original paper introducing quantum mechanics. This encounter was crucial to Dirac’s discovery of his famous equation for the relativistic electron. (This is also true about the work of Jordan, who also played a key role in the development of matrix mechanics and was a collaborator of Heisenberg in this project.) Heisenberg’s thinking may also be seen as the first anticipation of quantum-informational approach, and have important connections to the concept of quantum cellular automata, one of the subjects of this session. Implications of his thinking extend to the cutting edge of QFT and beyond, for example, string and brane theory.

It is exceptionally fitting to have this session as part of this conference, which, for over a quarter century now, has been exploring the nature of quantum physics as deeply as any foundational conference. Heisenberg’s thinking is an essential part of quantum foundations, its past, present, and, one might safely assume, future. Guided by Heisenberg’s thinking, the papers in this session aim to follow quantum theory into its future.

The recent achievements of Bohmian mechanics.

Scott Glancy (organizer)

Pilot-wave hydrodynamics: experiments, theory, and foundational implications.

Invited Speakers: Louis Vervoort (organizer), John Bush, Konstantinos Papatryfonos.

Summary: In this session Hydrodynamic Quantum Analogs will be presented: pilot-wave systems that consist of oil droplets walking on a vibrating oil film, propelled by a pilot-wave of their own making. These systems exhibit a variety of quantum-like features and shed new light on the de Broglie-Bohm theory of quantum mechanics. We will present key experimental and theoretical results, and discuss implications for the foundations of quantum mechanics.

Quantum information biology and neuromorphic systems

Invited Speakers: Gregory Scholes (organizer), Alexandra Olaya-Castro, Juan Bisquert, Christof Koch, Sergey Polyakov.

Summary: This session explores the question of how quantum phenomena might provide an advantage in biological systems, from photosynthesis to the brain. It further aims to make connections to functional neuromorphic materials, and thus identify how quantum effects might aid neuromorphic processing.

Ubiquitous Quantum: decision making, cognition, finances, and medicine

Invited speakers: Emmanuel Haven, Andrei Khrennikov, and Lev Murokh (organizers), Fabio Bagarello, Felix Benninger, Stefan Creemers, Christoph Gallus, Miho Fuyama, Peter Hammond, Will Hicks, Polina Khrennikova, Yamada Makiko, Lev Murokh, Oded Shor, Sandro Sozzo, Willam Sulis, Nao Tsuchiya,Herve Zwirn, Giuseppe Vitiello, Samuel Deleplanque, Irina Trofimova och Francois Dubois.

Summary: Quantum information revolution stimulated not only the development of quantum technologies, but even applications of the formalism of quantum theory outside of physics. This session is aimed to unify researchers working on the variety of quantum-like applications.

Abstracts

QIP 2025 Abstracts.pdf

Abstract- Investigating the Quantum Zeno Effect in Human Belief Updating: Insights from the Beads .docx

Abstract - Dynamical Properties of Neuromorphic Memristors and Oscillators- JuanBisquert.pdf

Program

ProgramQIP25H.pdf

Registration and abstract submission

The registration for the QIP Conference 2025 is now closed.

A Sustainable Event

This conference is a sustainability-assured meeting in accordance with Linnaeus University’s guidelines for sustainable events. These guidelines are linked to the 17 global goals in Agenda 2030 and comprise the three dimensions of sustainable development: the economic, the social, and the environmental. Learn more about Linnaeus University’s sustainable events here.