News and updates

April 23 - New publication titled "Leggett-Garg-like Inequalities from a Correlation Matrix Construction" in Quantum Reports. Congratulations to Dana Ben Porath.

April 23 - Congratulations to Rain for winning the Rector's prize for excellent graduate students!

March 23 - Congratulations to Ismael for leading our recent publication with Pedro Dieguez and Renato Angelo titled "Coherence and realism in the Aharonov-Bohm effect", Phys. Rev. A 107, 032213 (2023).

Feb. 23 - New publication titled "Countering a fundamental law of attraction with quantum wavepacket engineering" was published in Phys. Rev. Research. Congratulation to Gal Amit and to our collaborators at Ben-Gurion University.

Feb. 23 - New publication titled "Fundamental quantum limits of magnetic nearfield measurements" was published in npj Quantum Information as a result of a fruitful collaboration led by the Technion.

Jan. 23 - New publication titled: "Study of entanglement via a multi-agent dynamical quantum game" has appeared in PLOS ONE. Congratulations to our group members Amit Te'eni, Bar Peled and our close collaborator Avishy Carmi.

Dec. 22 - New publication titled: "Entanglement measures for two-particle quantum histories" in Physical Review A led by Danko Georgiev.

Dec. 22 - Good luck to Ismael in his second postdoc at the University of Bristol! The first was highly successful, Ismael will be missed in our group.

Nov. 22 - New publication titled: "Noninertial quantum clock frames lead to non-Hermitian dynamics" in Communications Physics. Congratulations to Ismael, Amit and Bar!

Nov. 22 - We're very happy to welcome our new group member Shalom Bloch.

Oct. 22 - New publication titled: "The identification of mean quantum potential with Fisher information leads to a strong uncertainty relation", in Foundation of Physics led by Yakov Bloch.

Oct. 22 - We're very happy to welcome our new group members Dana Ben Porath, Mor Hale and Assaf Katz.

Oct. 22 - Congratulations to Ariel Ashkenazy for winning the best poster award in the Faculty of Engineering Annual Conference 2022.

Oct. 22 - Congratulations to Amit Te'eni, Ron Cohen, Mahesh Jayakody, Rain Lenny and Yuval Idan for winning the Excel@BINA scholarship.

Aug. 22 - New publication titled: "Experimental characterization of silver nanoparticles for entangled photon pair interaction using reference-free hyper-Rayleigh scattering" in IEEE Photonics J. 14, 3045608 (2022) led by Ariel Ashkenazy.

July 22 - Congratulations to Gal Amit for his publication "Particles Detection System with CR-39 Based on Deep Learning" in Laser Part. Beams  2022, 3820671 (2022), leading to a corresponding prize from BINA.

July 22 - Congratulations to Zohar Schwartzman-Nowik and Amit Te'eni for winning the Israeli fellowship for excellent PhD students in Quantum Science and Technology.

June 22 - Honored to receive the Rector's Prize for Scientific Innovation.

May 22 - Congratulations to our PhD students Ariel Ashkenazy  and Mahesh Jayakody for winning the BINA prize for their nanotechnology-related publications!

April 22 - New publication in Phys. Rev. A titled: "Dynamical nonlocality in quantum time via modular operators" led by Ismael De Paiva.

April 22 - New publication in Quantum titled: "Flow of time during energy measurements and the resulting time-energy" led by Ismael De Paiva.

March 22 - New publication in Phys. Rev. A titled: "Induced on-demand revival in coined quantum walks on infinite d-dimensional lattices".

Feb. 22 - New publication in Advanced Science Technologies titled: "Geometric phases and the Sagnac effect: Foundational aspects and sensing applications", with Ismael De Paiva and Rain Lenny.

Jan. 22 - New publication in 4Open titled: "Quantum logical entropy: fundamentals and general properties" with Boaz Tamir, Ismael De Paiva and Zohar Schwartzman-Nowik.

Jan. 22 - New publication in Opt. Express titled: "Single-shot analysis of amplified correlated light" led by the Fridman group.

Jan. 22 - New publication in Ann. Phys. (Berl.) titled: "Spin-spacetime censorship" with Jonathan Nemirovsky and Ido Kaminer.

Dec. 21 - We're happy to welcome a new postdoc to our group - Michael Suleymanov!

Dec. 21 - New publication in Opt. Express titled: "Broadband complex two-mode quadratures for quantum optics" led by our former PhD student Leon Bello.

Oct. 21 - We received with Ernesto Galvão the INL-BINA grant for quantifying vital resources underlying quantum sensing and computation.

Oct. 21 - New publication in Optics titled: "Analysis of Decoherence in Linear and Cyclic Quantum Walks" led by our PhD student Mahesh Jayakody.

Oct. 21 - New publication in Phys. Rev. Lett. titled: "Augmenting the sensing performance of entangled photon pairs through asymmetry" with students and colleagues at BIU.

Aug. 21 - Congratulations to Ariel Ashkenazy who won the Israeli fellowship for excellent PhD students in Quantum Science and Technology.

Aug. 21 - New publication in Nat. Commun. titled: "A Dynamical Quantum Cheshire Cat effect and Implications for Counterfactual Communication" with Yakir Aharonov and Sandu Popescu.

July 21 - Congratulations to Leon Bello who finished his PhD and started his postdoc position at Princeton University.

July 21 - Two new papers in Phys. Rev. D and Phys. Rev. A.

June 21 - New paper in Phys. Rev. A titled: "One-particle and two-particle visibilities in bipartite entangled Gaussian states" with Danko Georgiev, Leon Bello and Avishy Carmi.

May 21 - New paper in Light: Science & Applications titled: "Anomalous weak values via a single photon detection".

May 21 - Two new papers in Appl. Phys. discussing protective measurements and backwards-in-time signaling.

Mar. 21 - Congratulations to Rain Lenny for his successful application to the direct MSc track!

Mar. 21 - Congratulations to Gal Amit for successfully defending his PhD research proposal!

Mar. 21 - Congratulations to Alon Wander for successfully defending his MSc thesis!

Mar. 21 - A new paper in Phys. Rev. Research with Dilip Paneru, Amit Te'eni, Bar Y. Peled, James Hubble, Yingwen Zhang, Avishy Carmi and Ebrahim Karimi: "Experimental tests of multiplicative Bell inequalities and the fundamental role of local correlations" was published.

Feb. 21 - A new paper with Bar Peled, Amit Te'eni and Avishy Carmi titled: "Correlation minor norms, entanglement detection and discord" has just appeared in Scientific Reports.

Dec. 20 - Honored to take part in the Israeli consortium for developing various quantum cryptography systems, funded by the Israel Innovation Authority.

Dec. 20 - New Papers in Phys. Rev. D, "Realism and causality. I. Pilot wave and retrocausal models as possible facilitators" and "Realism and causality. II. Retrocausality in energetic causal sets" with Marina Cortês, Avshalom Elitzur, and Lee Smolin (Part I and Part II).

Dec. 20 - We're happy to welcome Yaara Dvir to our group.

Nov. 20 - Won a Pazy Foundation grant with Sharon Shwartz and Talya Arusi-Parpar.

Oct. 20 - New paper in Nature Communications, "Optical framed knots as information carriers", with the Karimi group and Avishy Carmi.

Oct. 20 - Won an FQXi grant together with Yakir Aharonov, Avishy Carmi and Avshalom Elitzur.

Oct. 20 - We're happy to welcome Ismael De Paiva, Orit Herman and Shim'on Sukholuski to our group.

Sep. 20  - New paper in Nature Physics, "Weak-to-strong transition of quantum measurement in a trapped-ion system", led by Yiming Pan.

Sep. 20 - Congratulation to our colleague and friend Ebrahim Karimi for being elected as a member of the Royal Society of Canada - College of New Scholars.

Aug. 20 - We're happy to welcome Yuval Idan and Adi Oizerovich to our group.

Aug. 20 - A new article in Brain Research led by Danko Georgiev.

July 20 - An article was published regarding our new undergraduate Quantum Engineering program.

July 20 - Received budget from the Israeli Innovation Authority to demonstrate a new quantum illumination scheme together with Avi Pe'er and Elta Systems as a prototype for quantum radars.

June 20 - Honored to be chosen by the Council of Higher Education for the 3 year program of early stage researchers in the field of quantum science and technology.

June 20 - Our Leon Bello won the Rector Prize for Excellent PhD Students.

April 20 - The first half of a series of papers with Marina Cortês, Avshalom Elitzur, and Lee Smolin was accepted to PRD. The accepted version is available on arXiv.

April 20 - See our recently accepted review paper, led by Dilip Paneru on "Entanglement: Quantum or Classical?" in Rep. Prog. Phys.

March 20 - Avishy Carmi and I continue our exploration of quantum uncertainty and its connections with quantum nonlocality in this recent Entropy paper.

Feb. 20 - "Analysis of single-particle nonlocality through the prism of weak measurements" co-authored with Danko Georgiev has appeared in IJQI.

Feb. 20 - Avshalom Elitzur and I published a new article in Entropy: "Some notes on counterfactuals in quantum mechanics".

Feb. 20 - Two PhD students from the group, Amit Te'eni and Gal Amit, presented two of our works in the annual meeting of the Israeli Physical Society and in Control of Quantum and Classical Waves in Complex Media, respectively.

Feb. 20 - Our Ariel Ashkenazi won the best TA prize!

Feb. 20 - I wrote an article in Hebrew for Haaretz newspaper about photonic quantum technologies.

Feb. 20 - Six works of our group were presented in SPIE Photonics West (four conference proceedings papers appear under Publications).

Jan. 20 - We're happy to welcome Michael Krongauz to our group.

Jan. 20 - Our student Amit Te'eni has led the following work with Bar Peled, a student of Avishy Carmi, and our colleague Danko Georgiev: "Double Slit with an Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Pair".

Dec. 19 - Our QUEST II conference was delightful:                                                        

Congratulations to Leon Bello for winning the best poster award!

Dec. 19 - Happy to welcome Rain Lenny to our group!

Nov. 19 - Published in Quantum a perspective article regarding the nice "Anomalous Weak Values Without Post-Selection".

Nov. 19 - My colleagues from the Physics Department and I are organizing next month the second international workshop on Quantum Entanglement Science and Technology (QUEST 2) at the Faculty of Engineering, Bar-Ilan University: http://quest.biu.ac.il/quest2/

Oct. 19 - We are glad to welcome three new group members: Mahesh Jayakody, Amit Te'eni and Gil Shechter.

Aug. 19 - New paper in NJP: "Accelerated-Cherenkov radiation and signatures of radiation reaction".

July 19 - Our recent paper in APL: "Nonlocal quantum erasure of phase objects" was highlighted by AIP in Scilight.

July 19 - New paper in New J. Phys.:  "Bounds on nonlocal correlations in the presence of signaling and their application to topological zero modes". This research was performed in collaboration with Avishy Carmi, Yaroslav Herasymenko and Kyrylo Snizhko. It presents additional results stemming from the framework developed by Avishy Carmi and myself, which can be simulated and tested by a system of parafermions.

July 19 - New paper in Am. J. Phys.: "Why physical understanding should precede the mathematical formalism - conditional quantum probabilities as a case-study" - In this work with Yakir Aharonov and David Oaknin we discuss a new quantum paradox and its consequences.

June 19 - New paper in Nature Reviews Physics: "Geometric phase from Aharonov–Bohm to Pancharatnam–Berry and beyond". Could be very suitable for those of you who seek a gentle introduction to the notion of geometric phase, with recent applications to optics and condensed-matter physics.

June 19 - Avishy Carmi and I are now editing a special issue of Entropy (Quantum Information section) titled: "Axiomatic approaches to Quantum Mechanics". Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2020.

May 19 - Three years ago Aharon Brodutch and I suggested in our PRL a new protocol for implementing nonlocal quantum measurements  and now I'm closing the circle, having the privilege to coauthor its experimental realization in Nanophotonics.

April 19 - A pivotal paper in our research program was published in Sci. Adv. - Relativistic independence bounds nonlocality. Our followup work, Multiplicative Bell Inequalities, appeared now as well in Phys. Rev. A as a Rapid Communication.

Feb. 19 - Structured Quantum Projectiles - Now in Phys. Rev. A, selected also to Kaleidoscope.

Feb. 19 - New exciting papers in Optica and Opt. Express with the Karimi group (the former made it to the cover of Optica!).

Feb. 19 - Congratulations to Prof. Ebrahim Karimi for being elected as a fellow of The Optical Society and of the Global Young Academy!

Jan. 19 - Join us at a very interesting conference taking place at the Weizmann Institute (Jan. 28-31 2019).

Nov. 18 - Join the intriguing LALS 2018 conference next week (BIU). I'll present our work on Interaction-free Ghost Imaging.

Nov. 18 - New paper in Entropy.

Nov. 18 - Together with Profs. Yakir Aharonov and Jeff Tollaksen I recently published in PNAS a paper analyzing the old question of reductionism vs. emergentism from a quantitative quantum perspective:  Completely top-down hierarchical structure in quantum mechanics. See also the excellent Commentary by George F. R. Ellis.

Oct. 18 - New post explaining the basics of weak measurements.