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Entanglement Theory: a Quantum Odyssey, from the Generalised Quantum Stein's Lemma to Quantum Gravity (ETQO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2030-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499850.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499850.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Quantum entanglement fuels the most important quantum information processing protocols and is central to modern physics. However, the most profound questions concerning its operational meaning remain unanswered. Most importantly, we do not know how efficiently mixed-state entanglement can be (i) manipulated or (ii) detected, (iii) whether it is possible to formulate a thermodynamical theory of entanglement revolving around a unique entropic measure, and finally (iv) how entanglement can be exploited to reveal quantum features of gravity in experiments with gravitationally interacting quantum systems. A single key statement connects all these questions, the Generalised Quantum Stein's Lemma (GQSL) from quantum hypothesis testing. I have however uncovered [Lami and Regula, Nature Physics 19, 184 (2023); BBGLPRT, Nature Physics, in press (2023)] a fatal flaw in the original proof of the GQSL, which is now regarded as one of the most important open problems in entanglement theory. This project addresses questions (i)-(iv) in a unified way through the GQSL. The road map includes five key objectives. (O1) Solve the GQSL with techniques from quantum Shannon theory. (O2) Expand its scope from entanglement to other quantum resources and from states to processes. (O3) Design new entanglement measures and use them to obtain tight constraints on entanglement manipulation. (O4) Determine the ultimate performances of quantum communication networks, and characterise entanglement in many-body systems. Finally, (O5) investigate quantum gravitational experiments systematically with the formalism of quantum hypothesis testing, formulating a complete proposal of a new type of `dynamical' quantum gravitational experiment. Thanks to my strong track record in quantum information theory, entanglement theory, and their applications to fundamental physics problems, I am in an ideal position to complete this project, whose goal is to build new bridges connecting these three key areas.

Keywords: quantum entanglement,quantum communication,gravitational entanglement,quantum gravity,hypothesis testing,stein s lemma
Perceptual foundations of relational thinking (ViSyRelPer)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2025-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 211754.88
EU funding (EUR): 211754.88
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Classic models of visual perception pose that the ultimate goal of vision is object recognition. Recent research suggests that visual perception is more sophisticated, representing the objects as well as the relations holding between them. Relational representations are a major research focus in cognitive science, as they play a central role in human reasoning, language and social life. Yet, how they come about in the human mind/brain remains largely unknown. In ViSyRelPer, I study the role of the visual system in encoding relations, under the hypothesis that perception realizes the early stages of relational representation. I focus on two categories of relations: causal and social-interact. First, I use frequency- tagging electroencephalography (FTEEG) to measure the automatic neural response of the visual system to visual stimulation, and study whether: a) such response is evoked during observation of relational events (e.g. for causal relation: collision events) and b) generalizes to different instantiations of the same relation (e.g. for causal relation: launching and pulling events). Generalization would imply that the visual response reflects the representation of a relation, above and beyond the specific objects involved. Second, I use transcranial magnetic stimulation to interfere with activity in visuoperceptual brain areas while participants perform judgments on relational events. This study proves a causal role of visual areas in relation processing, thus substantiating the hypothesis of relation perception. Third, I use the above FTEEG approach to study perception of social and causal relations in individuals with autism spectrum disorder. I will investigate whether alterations in the visuoperceptual stages of relation representation could be a marker of difficulties in the disorder, as raised in latest research. This program will offer new avenues to discover the perceptual groundings of relational thinking underlying the complexity of human cognition.

Keywords: visual perception relation perception object relations social interaction visual scenes frequency tagging electroencephalography transcranial magnetic stimulation autism
Adaptive Laser Beam for additive manufacturing (ALABAMA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Climate neutral, Circular and Digitised Production
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: Photonics (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Norway,Sweden,Ireland,Germany,Spain,Italy
Call: High-precision OR complex product manufacturing – potentially including the use of photonics (Made in Europe and Photonics Partnerships) (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7023857.14
EU funding (EUR): 6000000.0
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The ALABAMA project aims to develop and mature adaptive laser technologies for AM. The objective is to lower decrease the porosity and to tailor the microstructure of the deposited material by shaping the laser beam, both temporally and spatially, during the AM process. The key innovations in the project are to develop multiscale physics-based models to enable optimization of the AM process. These process parameters will be tested and matured for multi-beam control, laser beam shaping optics and high-speed scanning. To ensure the quality of the process, advanced online process monitoring and closed loop control will be performed using multi spectral imaging and thermography to control the melt pool behavior coupled with wire-current and high-speed imaging to control the process. To verify that the built material fulfills the requirements, advanced characterization will be conducted on coupons and on use-cases. The matured technology will be tested on three use-cases; aviation, maritime and automotive. These three industrial sectors span a broad part of the manufacturing volumes: from low numbers with high added value, to high numbers with relatively low cost. However, all these sectors struggle with distortions, stresses and material quality. The ALABAMA use-case demonstrators will improve the compensation for distortions during the AM process, reduce the build failures due to residual stresses, reduce porosity and improve tailoring of the microstructure. Overall, this will contribute to up to 100% increase in process productivity, 50% less defects, 33% cost reduction due to increased productivity and energy savings, a reduction of 15% in greenhouse gases and enable first time-right manufacturing thanks to simulation, process monitoring and adaptive control. The end users will insert the technologies while the sub-technologies developed in the work packages will be commercialized. This will increase the autonomy for a resilient European industry.

Keywords: in process monitoring,multi laser production,laser beam shaping
Strategies and tOOls for Incentivization and management of flexibility in Energy Communities with distributed Resources (RESCHOOL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Norway,Netherlands,Sweden,Belgium,Germany,Greece
Call: Supporting the action of consumers in the energy market and guide them to act as prosumers, communities and other active forms of active participation in the energy activities (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D3-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6118596.26
EU funding (EUR): 5593570.0
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

Currently, the energy sector is responsible for 72% of the EU’s GHG emissions, this situation calls for a rapid and effective decarbonisation of all sectors. Reaching the sustainability targets negotiated under the Green Deal requires facing the green transition towards clean energy by increasing the renewable share and efficient use of energy. Despite the impacts on the energy production, responsibility falls on citizens and governors. A more active role and direct participation of consumers (prosumers) in the value energy chain is needed; and this requires a collaborative and aggregated actuation. Moreover, the EU need to reduce its dependence of external energy resources (nowadays aggravated by geopolitical conflicts in UKR) implies a significant transformation to manage the flexibility required by an of increasing renewable sources. RESCHOOL aims to lever energy communities as formal way to aggregate active consumers and prosumers and empower them as relevant energy stakeholders. RESCHOOL aims to facilitate their interaction with the grid as flexibility providers and their participation in electricity markets. This will only be possible when enough citizens are engaged on these communities and enough flexibility can be aggregated. This requires efforts on training and engagement campaigns supported by effective results demonstrated in the real life. RESCHOOL will provide solutions to reinforce these engagement efforts based on co-creation/co-design participative strategies as well as tools designed to support energy and flexibility management and interaction of both based on collaborative and gamification strategies. These tools and methods will be validated in 4 different pilots across EU, including ES, NL, SE, and GR. Results from studies, developments and validations will serve to elaborate realistic guidelines and business models to support the effective creation, growing and development of energy communities in the EU, including policy recommendations.

Keywords: energy communities,prosumers,electricity,pv,intergenerational training,gamification,flexibility,ems,energy balancing,forecasting,energy regulation market,sustainability,energy transition
Network for Cross-disciplinary assessment of Endocrine Disrupting compounds: training the next generation of toxicologists (NeXED)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Belgium,Denmark,Netherlands,Czechia,France,Sweden,United Kingdom,Germany,Norway,Italy
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3993062.4
EU funding (EUR): 3871908.0
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

The EU has flagged endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), which interfere with normal hormonal function leading to adverse health effects, of particular concern. Within different EU regulatory programmes the assessment of EDCs has recently changed significantly and continues to evolve rapidly. Advances in test methods for assessment of EDCs are needed to meet these changing regulatory requirements, and a new generation of toxicologists must be trained to support the implementation of the most advanced approaches. NeXED will address three critical challenges in this area. First, human and environmental EDC assessment have historically been separate disciplines while there is an increasing need to use data across species in a One Health approach. Second, EDC assessment currently addresses single compounds while in an environmentally realistic scenario organisms are faced with complex mixtures of EDCs. Third, new test methods for EDC assessment are needed, covering less well-characterised mechanisms and effects. NeXED aims to facilitate a paradigm shift in EDC assessment by training a new generation of cross-disciplinary toxicologists specialised in using harmonised approaches in a One Health framework. NeXED will train its 15 doctoral candidates through research, secondments and training events using an interdisciplinary and intersectoral training programme. NeXED brings together 9 Beneficiaries and 11 Associated Partners from 10 countries, building upon long-standing collaborations through existing projects including the Horizon 2020 EURION projects and the Horizon Europe Partnership on the Assessment of Risk from Chemicals (PARC). The consortium includes leading researchers from institutions with excellent doctoral training programmes who are all experts in ED assessment, as well as industry partners, regulatory agencies, SMEs and consultancy firms. With its complementary expertise the consortium is ideally placed to train the NeXED generation of toxicologists.

Keywords: endocrine disrupting compounds,mixture toxicity,environmental chemistry,one health,regulatory application
Climate Metamorphosis for urban post-disaster recovery (Metamorphosis)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Spain,Netherlands,Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-08-01
End date: 2027-01-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226441.2
EU funding (EUR): 226441.2
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

In an era of increasing urban vulnerabilities to disasters, this project stands as a beacon of innovation and action. Cities across the globe, including those within the European Union, face increasing number of crises, from climate-driven catastrophes to seismic shocks. These events disrupt economies, societies, and scar the environment, calling for more than just a return to the pre-disaster state; they call for metamorphosis. In "Metamorphosis" project, I will build on the "build back better" principles and develop a framework and tool that would help cities to leap forward by integrating climate adaptation and mitigation, and become not only resilient but also climate neutral. This approach aligns seamlessly with two pivotal EU missions: Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities, and Climate Adaptive Regions by 2030. This inquiry focuses on the Climate City Contract (CCC), a transformative and inclusive governance tool developed by the net-zero research and practice community in the EU. This project aims to evolve it into a Climate Recovery Contract (CRC), one tailored for post-disaster scenarios. The backdrop for this exploration is Ukraine's post-war recovery, offering a unique field to integrate climate transformation into recovery planning. All together, the EU-Ukraine context forms fertile ground for the expansion of knowledge on post-disaster recovery and the crafting of practical instruments like CRC. These endeavors will empower cities not merely to return to their prior states after disasters but to stride forward, embracing climate resilience and net-zero recovery in a collaborative manner, a metamorphosis urgently needed in the face of the global climate emergency.

Keywords: disasters,recovery,war,participation,orchestration,collective action,governance,ukraine,the eu missions,climate change
Mott Insulator Transition in a Quantum Fluid of Light (MISTiQ-Light)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Photons are great carriers of information but they usually don’t interact with one another. Atoms interact but are hard to manipulate and do not benefit from the toolbox of quantum optics for detecting quantum fluctuations and entanglement. Many approaches have been proposed to marry these two systems for quantum simulation of condensed matter with strongly interacting photons, but to date, the realization of large-scale synthetic materials made of optical photons is still missing. My project targets this exciting goal, namely the creation of synthetic photonic matter. It relies on the original approach of engineering a quantum phase transition in a fluid of light. Specifically, I will investigate the superfluid to Mott insulator transition for light propagating in a dense cold atomic cloud. Photons will acquire an effective mass due to the paraxial approximation and I will generate and tune the strong photon-photon interactions via a giant Kerr non-linearity induced by manipulating atomic coherences. In this regime, photons will behave as a quantum fluid of light and follow an evolution similar to ultracold atomic quantum gases. My original hypothesis is that a fluid of light should undergo the same phase transition, driven by quantum fluctuations, as quantum gases do, and that a many-body state of light will emerge from this transition. At the fundamental level, a Mott insulator state of light allows for exploring truly quantum effects such as the emergence of analogue of phase transition in non-equilibrium systems, the presence of quantum depletion and pre-thermal states and the entanglement dynamics in many-body systems. On the applied side, a photonic Mott insulator is a giant source of single photons (or any Fock state) with potentially several hundreds of lattice sites delivering tunable photon number-states in parallel. It will be a game changer for scalability issues in photonics quantum technologies.
Boosting the exposome space coverage in the aquatic environment by multidimensional integrated analytical platforms. (BEspace)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-11-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187624.32
EU funding (EUR): 187624.32
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The increase of anthropogenic chemicals released by human activities poses a growing threat to natural and man-made environments. Characterizing the mixture of chemicals that an individual encounters throughout lifetime, namely exposome, is a complex analytical task that is only partially fulfilled by current state-of-the-art methods. Non-targeted analysis approaches based on liquid reversed-phase chromatography hyphenated with high-resolution mass spectrometry restrict the detectable exposome chemical space to medium-to-low polarity chemicals. The BEspace project seeks to untangle sample complexity and expand the detectable exposome through advanced separation approaches, combined in a two-dimensional fashion and hyphenated with high-resolution mass spectrometers. On this basis, it shall boost the profiling of chemicals of environmental concern in relevant exposome matrices like environmental and treated water samples, thanks to the collaboration with KWR Water Research Institute. Even though two-dimensional liquid chromatography approaches provide increased separation selectivity and capacity, boosting the detectable chemical space coverage of the aqueous samples, their application in exposomics is limited. The complex two-dimensional data structure and the lack of standardized procedures hamper the exposome chemical identification, requiring the implementation of composite cheminformatics tools. Therefore, BEspace will develop advanced wet and dry lab analytical platforms to expand the detectable chemical space of the aqueous compartment. Large-scale quali-quantitative exposomics datasets will be project final outputs, providing cutting-edge data to be publicly shared to enrich present databases and to develop novel risk assessment approaches. The implicit multidisciplinarity of the project grants multiple-way knowledge transfer among the host institution, the researcher, and the associate partner.

Keywords: method development in chemistry,environmental health,water treatment and analysis,data mining