Name: Quantum Observables for Collider Physics 2026
Start: 2026-04-20T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-04-24T18:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

Quantum Observables for Collider Physics 2026

from Monday, April 20, 2026 (9:00 AM) to Friday, April 24, 2026 (6:00 PM)

Monday, April 20, 2026

11:00 AM CERN access and badge collection

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

11:45 AM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM Welcome and Introduction - Yoav Afik (University of Chicago (US))
Welcome and Introduction
- Yoav Afik (University of Chicago (US))
1:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
1:15 PM Plenary talk: Bell nonlocality: from foundations to applications - Nicolas Brunner (University of Geneva)
Plenary talk: Bell nonlocality: from foundations to applications
- Nicolas Brunner (University of Geneva)
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
2:00 PM Session 1: Quantum Information in Particle Physics
Quantum Information in Particle Physics
2:00 PM - 2:50 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

2:00 PM A Quantum Information-Theoretic View of Observables in Collider Experiments - Beatrix Hiesmayr (IT:U Austria)

2:25 PM Characterizing entanglement dynamics in QED scattering processes - Massimo Blasone (Università di Salerno and INFN)
2:50 PM Plenary talk: Quantum sensing for particle physics - Michael Doser (CERN)
Plenary talk: Quantum sensing for particle physics
- Michael Doser (CERN)
2:50 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
3:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 500/1-201 - Mezzanine
4:00 PM CERN Colloquium
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

4:00 PM Scenes from the Quantum Century: From Curious Hippies to Novel Tests of Bell’s Inequality - David Kaiser (MIT)
5:00 PM Welcome Drinks

5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: 500/1-201 - Mezzanine
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
9:00 AM Session 2: LHC Physics - Higgs and VV
LHC Physics - Higgs and VV
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

9:00 AM Higher-order corrections in Higgs decays - Alberto Navarro (Seoultech)

9:25 AM Two qutrits at the LHC: a higher-order perspective - Giovanni Pelliccioli (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)

9:50 AM Measurements of Z-boson pair entanglement in decays of Higgs bosons at the ATLAS experiment - Tairan Xu (University of Michigan (US))

10:15 AM Mapping the Quantum State of Higgs→ZZ - Jeffrey Davis (Johns Hopkins University (US))
10:40 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: 500/1-201 - Mezzanine
11:10 AM Session 2: LHC Physics - Top
LHC Physics - Top
11:10 AM - 12:25 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

11:10 AM Spin density matrix and quantum observables of a two-qubit system at colliders - Dong Woo Kang (JBNU)

11:35 AM Measurements of entanglement and characterization of the ttbar quantum state with the CMS experiment [20'+5'] - Otto Heinz Hindrichs (University of Rochester (US))

12:00 PM Measurement of Quantum information observables in top-quark pairs using the ATLAS detector [20'+5'] - Fiona Ann Jolly (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
12:25 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:25 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Session 3: Entanglement, Scattering and Symmetry
Entanglement, Scattering and Symmetry
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Qubit entanglement from forward scattering [20'+5'] - Kamila Kowalska (National Centre for Nuclear Research)

2:25 PM Entanglement, Symmetries and Higgs Physics [20'+5'] - Carlos Wagner

2:50 PM Quantum Entanglement and Enhanced Symmetries: From Two-body to Many-body systems [20'+5'] - Ian Low
3:15 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: 61/1-201 - Pas perdus - Not a meeting room -
3:45 PM Session 3: Entanglement, Scattering and Symmetry
Entanglement, Scattering and Symmetry
3:45 PM - 4:35 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

3:45 PM Does Entanglement Suppression Lead to Enhanced Symmetries? [20'+5'] - Spencer Chang (University of Oregon)

4:10 PM Symmetries of the S-matrix from the lens of Quantum Information and Computation [20'+5'] - Navin McGinnis
4:35 PM Plenary talk: Entangled squeezed quantum states of gravitons as a probe of Quantum Gravity [40'+5'] - Nikos Mavromatos (University of London (GB))
Plenary talk: Entangled squeezed quantum states of gravitons as a probe of Quantum Gravity [40'+5']
- Nikos Mavromatos (University of London (GB))
4:35 PM - 5:20 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
5:20 PM Poster Session + Drinks

5:20 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: 61/1-201 - Pas perdus
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
9:00 AM Session 4: Flavor
Flavor
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

9:00 AM Flavor-Space Quantum Tomography of Neutral Mesons [20'+5'] - Arthur Wu

9:25 AM Test of quantum entanglement in Upsilon(4S)-> B0\bar{B}0 [20'+5'] - Sagar Hazra

9:50 AM First observation of the time-dependent "Back from the Future" quantum effect in entangled neutral kaons at KLOE/KLOE-2 [20'+5'] - Antonio Di Domenico (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

10:15 AM Quantum-entangled pions and implications for CP violation [20'+5'] - Emidio Gabrielli (Nat. Inst. of Chem.Phys. & Biophys. (EE))
10:40 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: 500/1-201 - Mezzanine
11:10 AM Session 5: Entanglement and Bell nonlocality at colliders
Entanglement and Bell nonlocality at colliders
11:10 AM - 12:25 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

11:10 AM Spin correlations and locality tests at collider experiments (remote presentation) [20'+5'] - Claude Duhr

11:35 AM Entanglement and Bell locality tests at colliders [20'+5'] - Juan Antonio Aguilar Saavedra (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ES))

12:00 PM Opportunities, assumptions and limitations for QI measurements at the LHC [20'+5'] - Fabio Cerutti (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
12:25 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:25 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Session 6: Decoherence
Decoherence
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Decoherence at colliders [20'+5'] - Rafael Aoude

2:25 PM Decoherence in high energy collisions as renormalization group flow [20'+5'] - Liantao Wang

2:50 PM Experimental prospects for the measurement of quantum decoherence at colliders [20'+5'] - Marcel Vos (IFIC Valencia (ES))
3:15 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: 500/1-201 - Mezzanine
3:45 PM Session 7: Quantum Verification and Transformation
Quantum Verification and Transformation
3:45 PM - 4:35 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

3:45 PM Practically and Efficiently Verifying Entanglement with an Incomplete Measurement Setting [20'+5'] - Joonwoo Bae (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

4:10 PM Nonlocality of quantum transformations: structure and certification [20'+5'] - Albert Rico
4:35 PM Plenary talk: Laboratory-based tests of quantum effects in the gravitational field - Vlatko Vedral [40'+5'] - Vlatko Vedral
Plenary talk: Laboratory-based tests of quantum effects in the gravitational field - Vlatko Vedral [40'+5']
- Vlatko Vedral
4:35 PM - 5:20 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
5:20 PM Panel Discussion 1 - QIS for HEP, HEP for QIS - Beatrix Hiesmayr (IT:U Austria) Regina Demina (University of Rochester (US))
Panel Discussion 1 - QIS for HEP, HEP for QIS
- Beatrix Hiesmayr (IT:U Austria)
- Regina Demina (University of Rochester (US))
5:20 PM - 6:20 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
7:30 PM Workshop Dinner: Café de Mategnin, Meyrin
Café de Mategnin, Meyrin
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Thursday, April 23, 2026
9:15 AM Session 8: Quantum Information at the QCD Frontier
Quantum Information at the QCD Frontier
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

9:15 AM Probing quantum properties of the quark-gluon plasma via spin correlations of Lambda hyperons [20'+5'] - Enrico Speranza (CERN)

9:40 AM STAR Collaboration results on the measurement of Λ–Λ̄ entanglement [20'+5'] - Zhoudunming Tu

10:05 AM Quantum computing and entanglement for scattering observables in low energy few-nucleon systems [20'+5'] - Thomas Richardson (UC Berkeley)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 500/1-201 - Mezzanine
11:00 AM Session 8: Quantum Information at the QCD Frontier
Quantum Information at the QCD Frontier
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

11:00 AM Towards a Quantum Information Theory of Hadronization [20'+5'] - Rebecca von Kuk (Univerisity of Bern)

11:25 AM The Maximal Entanglement Limit in Statistical and High Energy Physics [20'+5'] - Dmitri Kharzeev
11:50 AM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
11:50 AM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Session 9: Magic
Magic
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Magic in high energy scattering [20'+5'] - Chris White (Queen Mary University of London)

2:25 PM Flavoured non-local magic [20'+5'] - Giorgio Busoni (Adelaide University)

2:50 PM The Quantum Magic of Standard Model Parameters [20'+5'] - Zhewei Yin
3:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 500/1-201 - Mezzanine
4:00 PM Session 9: Magic
Magic
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

4:00 PM Gauge invariance from QI [20'+5'] - Alba Cervera Lierta (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)

4:25 PM Extremal Magic States from Symmetric Lattices [20'+5'] - Kazuki Sakurai (University of Warsaw)
5:00 PM QTI Seminar
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

5:00 PM Correlations and information processing - quantum and beyond - Pawel Horodecki (Gdansk University of Technology)
6:00 PM Panel Discussion 2 - What constitutes a measurement in HEP experiments? - Christopher Timpson (University of Oxford) Juan Ramon Munoz De Nova
Panel Discussion 2 - What constitutes a measurement in HEP experiments?
- Christopher Timpson (University of Oxford)
- Juan Ramon Munoz De Nova
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: 222/R-001
Friday, April 24, 2026
9:15 AM Session 10: Future Colliders
Future Colliders
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

9:15 AM Quantum Information at the EIC [20'+5'] - Kun Cheng (University of Pittsburgh)

9:40 AM Quantum entanglement in diffractive DIS [20'+5'] - Yoshitaka Hatta (BNL)

10:05 AM Quantum Tomography of Fermion Pairs in e+e- Collisions: Effects from Beam Polarizations [20'+5'] - Tao Han
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 500/1-201 - Mezzanine
11:00 AM Session 10: Future Colliders
Future Colliders
11:00 AM - 11:25 AM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

11:00 AM Complementary Quantum Frontiers: pp, e⁺e⁻, and μ⁺μ⁻ Colliders [20'+5'] - Andreas Werner Jung (Purdue University (US))
11:25 AM Summary [15'+5'] - Alan Barr (University of Oxford (GB))
Summary [15'+5']
- Alan Barr (University of Oxford (GB))
11:25 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
11:45 AM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
11:45 AM - 2:00 PM

2:30 PM Visit at the ATLAS visitor center

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM