Giulio
Chiribella
Professor
Department of Computer Science
The University of Hong Kong
Pokfulam Road
Hong Kong
Tel (852)28572193
E-mail: firstname@cs.hku.hk
(no capital letters)
Education: PhD in Physics, University of Pavia, Italy
(2007).
Laurea Degree in Physics, University of Pavia, Italy
(2003).
About:
I joined the University of Hong Kong in
August 2015.
Before joining HKU, I have been Associate Professor at Tsinghua University,
Beijing (2012-2015), and Postdoctoral Fellow of Perimeter Institute for
Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada (2009-2012).
Interests:
My research is in the field of
Quantum Information Theory and Quantum Foundations.
I am interested
in how the fundamental laws of quantum mechanics can be turned into advantages
for future information technologies, and, conversely, in what the power of
quantum technologies reveals about fundamental physics.
The
interplay between applications and foundations has led me to study quantum networks, quantum clocks and gyroscopes, quantum copy
machines, and quantum computations with an indefinite causal order. On the
foundational side, I am interested in the role of information theory in quantum
mechanics, thermodynamics, and spacetime physics. The
long term goal is to reduce some of the now-puzzling phenomena in these areas to a
small set of information-theoretic principles.
Awards
¥
Croucher Senior Research Fellowship 2018-19
¥
CIFAR-Azrieli Global Scholar
¥ Hermann
Weyl Prize 2010
http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/284/1/011005
¥ 1000
Talents Plan of China Young Investigator Award, Physics Track, 2012
¥ Tsinghua University Excellent Young Teacher Award, 2015.
Professional
Memberships
¥
Member of the Standing Committee of the International Colloquia
on
Group Theoretical Methods in Physics (ICGTMP).
¥ Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and
Theoretical
¥ Member of FQXi Foundational Questions Institute
¥ Fellow of the National Virgilian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts, Italy.
10 Selected
Publications:
G. Chiribella, Y. Yang, and J. Huang, Universal Superreplication
of Unitary Gates,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 120504
(2015).
G. Chiribella, Y. Yang, and A. C.-C. Yao,
Quantum
Replication at the Heisenberg Limit,
Nature Communications 4, 2915 (2013)
G. Chiribella, G. M. DÕAriano,
P. Perinotti, and B. Valiron,
Quantum computations without definite
causal order,
Phys. Rev. A 88, 022318 (2013)
G. Chiribella, Perfect Discrimination of No-Signalling
Channels via Quantum Superposition of Causal Structures,
Phys. Rev. A 86, 040301, Rapid Communications (2012)
G. Chiribella, G. M. DÕAriano,
and P. Perinotti,
Informational Derivation of Quantum Theory,
Phys. Rev. A 84, 012311 (2011)
G. Chiribella, G. M. DÕAriano,
and P. Perinotti,
Probabilistic Theories with Purification,
Phys. Rev. A 81, 062348 (2010)
G. Chiribella, G. M. DÕAriano,
and P. Perinotti,
Theoretical Framework for Quantum Networks,
Phys. Rev. A 80 022339 (2009)
G. Chiribella, G. M. DÕAriano,
and P. Perinotti,
Quantum
Circuits Architecture,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 060401 (2008)
G. Chiribella, G. M. DÕAriano,
and M. F. Sacchi,
Optimal Estimation of Group Transformations
Using Entanglement,
Phys. Rev. A 72, 042338 (2005)
G. Chiribella, G. M. DÕAriano,
P. Perinotti, and M. F. Sacchi,
Efficient Use
of Quantum Resources for the Transmission of a Reference Frame,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 180503 (2004)
Books:
G. Chiribella and R. W. Spekkens,
Eds.
Quantum Theory: Informational Foundations
and Foils, Springer (2015).
http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Theory-Informational-Foundations-Fundamental/dp/9401773025
G. M. DÕAriano,
G. Chiribella, and P. Perinotti, Quantum Theory from First Principles: An Informational Approach,
Cambridge University Press, in press.
Recent
research grants:
¥ The fundamental principles of information dynamics, FQXI Large Grant, project
duration 10/2013-09/2015. Grant amount: 48,300 USD
¥ Efficient Quantum Devices at the Heisenberg Bound (renewal), National Science
Foundation of China, Research Fund for International Young Scientists, project
duration 07/2013-06/2014. Grant amount: 200,000 RMB
¥ Efficient Quantum Devices at the Heisenberg Bound, National Science Foundation
of China, Research Fund for International Young Scientists, project duration
07/2013-06/2014. Grant amount: 200,000 RMB
¥ 1000 Talents of China Young Investigator Grant, project duration: 8/2012-
07/2015. Grant amount: 2,000,000 RMB
Conference Organization:
¥ Hong Kong Workshop on Quantum Information and Foundations,
May 4-7 2016, The Universtiy of Hong Kong.
http://qsit.weebly.com/
¥ Workshop on Quantum Metrology, Interaction, and Causal Structure 2014, December 1-5 2014, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
http://conference.iiis.tsinghua.edu.cn/QI2014/
¥ Workshop on Quantum Metrology, Interaction, and Causal Structure 2013, December 9-13 2013, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
http://conference.iiis.tsinghua.edu.cn/QI2013/
¥ Local Arrangement Chair of QIP 2013,
January 21-25 2013, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
http://conference.iiis.tsinghua.edu.cn/QIP2013/index.html
¥ Focus Session ÒQuantum Information for Quantum FoundationsÓ at the March
Meeting of the American Physical Society 2012, Boston, USA.
http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR12/APS_epitome
¥ Conference on Conceptual Foundations and Foils for Quantum Information Processing, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, May 9-14 2011.
Student
Supervision:
Graduate: Yuxiang Yang (2014-), Daniel Ebler (2015-), Xiaobin Zhao (2015-), Ge Bai (2016-), Mo Yin (2016-)
Undergraduate: Dina Genkina (2012), Jinyu Xie, (2013), Yuxiang Yang (2013), Carlo Maria Scandolo (2014), Xiaobin Zhao (2014), Rui Chao (2015), Tongyang Li (2015), Cupjin Huang (2015), Qinheping Hu (2015), Tian Zhang (2015), Jian Wang (2015), Shichuan Deng (2015), Xuren Zhou (2015), Mo Yin (2016).
Other
interests:
Before starting my academic career, I studied piano at the Conservatory ÒL. CampianiÓ of Mantova, Italy, obtaining a Diploma in 2001. I also participated in a few piano competitions, winning the first prize in the National Competition ÒMarco BramantiÓ, 1996 edition, and the first prize in the National Competition ÒCittˆ di CesenaticoÓ, 1998 edition.