The Department of Condensed Matter Physics has expanded with a new research group, Quantum Information and Thermodynamics, led by Ing. Dominik Šafránek, Ph.D. The group, funded by two prestigious grant — Primus and Junior Star—will focus on developing a novel method for quantum tomography based on the quantum Bayes’ theorem. This method will serve as a diagnostic tool for quantum technologies, including quantum computers, sensors, and cryptographic devices, enabling the identification of sources of error and thus improving their implementation.
In addition to quantum tomography, the group will investigate a range of topics within quantum information science, such as entropy, quantum metrology, retrodiction, quantum batteries, and quantum engines.
The group is composed of an international team of researchers with diverse research backgrounds. Dominik Šafránek’s expertise spans quantum information theory, quantum entropy, retrodiction, work extraction, quantum metrology, Gaussian states, and quantum chaos. The two postdoctoral researchers are Sebastian Murk, an expert in black holes, thermodynamics, and modified theories of gravity, and Ian Tan, an expert in Lie algebras and their applications in quantum computation. In addition, two students have joined the group: Fabian Müller, who has experience in quantum metrology—specifically in Interferometric Mass Photometr — and Viktor Hochmann, who comes from a quantum thermodynamics background, having studied quantum Maxwell’s demon.
