Quantum Observables for Collider Physics 2026

from Monday, 20 April 2026 (09:00) to Friday, 24 April 2026 (18:00)
CERN (4/3-006)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
20 Apr 2026
21 Apr 2026
22 Apr 2026
23 Apr 2026
24 Apr 2026
AM
11:00
CERN access and badge collection (until 11:45)
11:45 --- Lunch Break ---
09:00
Session 2 - James William Howarth (University of Glasgow (GB)) dorival Gonçalves (Oklahoma State University) (until 10:40)
09:00 Higher-order corrections in Higgs decays - Alberto Navarro (Seoultech)  
09:25 Two qutrits at the LHC: a higher-order perspective - Giovanni Pelliccioli (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)  
09:50 Measurements of Z-boson pair entanglement in decays of Higgs bosons at the ATLAS experiment - Tairan Xu (University of Michigan (US))  
10:15 Mapping the Quantum State of Higgs→ZZ - Jeffrey Davis (Johns Hopkins University (US))  
10:40 --- Coffee Break ---
11:10
Session 2 - Giulia Negro (Purdue University (US)) Eleanor Jones (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) (until 12:25)
11:10 Spin density matrix and quantum observables of a two-qubit system at colliders - Dong Woo Kang (JBNU)  
11:35 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 Measurement of Quantum information observables in top-quark pairs using the ATLAS detector [20'+5'] - Fiona Ann Jolly (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
09:00
Session 4 - Laura Zani Sven Vahsen (University of Hawaii (US)) (until 10:40)
09:00 Flavor-Space Quantum Tomography of Neutral Mesons [20'+5'] - Arthur Wu  
09:25 Test of quantum entanglement in Upsilon(4S)-> B0\bar{B}0 [20'+5'] - Sagar Hazra  
09:50 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 Quantum-entangled pions and implications for CP violation [20'+5'] - Emidio Gabrielli (Nat. Inst. of Chem.Phys. & Biophys. (EE))  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:10
Session 5 - Luca Marzola (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE)) (until 12:25)
11:10 Spin correlations and locality tests at collider experiments (remote presentation) [20'+5'] - Claude Duhr  
11:35 Entanglement and Bell locality tests at colliders [20'+5'] - Juan Antonio Aguilar Saavedra (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ES))  
12:00 Opportunities, assumptions and limitations for QI measurements at the LHC [20'+5'] - Fabio Cerutti (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
09:15
Session 8 - Yoshitaka Hatta (BNL) (until 10:30)
09:15 Probing quantum properties of the quark-gluon plasma via spin correlations of Lambda hyperons [20'+5'] - Enrico Speranza (CERN)  
09:40 STAR Collaboration results on the measurement of Λ–Λ̄ entanglement [20'+5'] - Zhoudunming Tu  
10:05 Quantum computing and entanglement for scattering observables in low energy few-nucleon systems [20'+5'] - Thomas Richardson (UC Berkeley)  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Session 8 - Laura Pintucci (Universita degli Studi di Udine (IT)) (until 11:50)
11:00 Towards a Quantum Information Theory of Hadronization [20'+5'] - Rebecca von Kuk (Univerisity of Bern)  
11:25 The Maximal Entanglement Limit in Statistical and High Energy Physics [20'+5'] - Dmitri Kharzeev  
11:50 --- Lunch Break ---
09:15
Session 10 - Marcel Vos (IFIC Valencia (ES)) (until 10:30)
09:15 Quantum Information at the EIC [20'+5'] - Kun Cheng (University of Pittsburgh)  
09:40 Quantum entanglement in diffractive DIS [20'+5'] - Yoshitaka Hatta (BNL)  
10:05 Quantum Tomography of Fermion Pairs in e+e- Collisions: Effects from Beam Polarizations [20'+5'] - Tao Han  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Session 10 - Marcel Vos (IFIC Valencia (ES)) (until 11:25)
11:00 Complementary Quantum Frontiers: pp, e⁺e⁻, and μ⁺μ⁻ Colliders [20'+5'] - Andreas Werner Jung (Purdue University (US))  
11:25 Summary [15'+5'] - Alan Barr (University of Oxford (GB))  
11:45 --- Lunch Break ---
PM
13:00 Welcome and Introduction - Yoav Afik (University of Chicago (US))   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
13:15 Plenary talk: Bell nonlocality: from foundations to applications - Nicolas Brunner (University of Geneva)  
14:00
Session 1 - Juan Ramon Munoz De Nova (until 14:50)
14:00 A Quantum Information-Theoretic View of Observables in Collider Experiments - Beatrix Hiesmayr (IT:U Austria)  
14:25 Characterizing entanglement dynamics in QED scattering processes - Massimo Blasone (Università di Salerno and INFN)  
14:50 Plenary talk: Quantum sensing for particle physics - Michael Doser (CERN)  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
CERN Colloquium (until 17:00) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
16:00 Scenes from the Quantum Century: From Curious Hippies to Novel Tests of Bell’s Inequality - David Kaiser (MIT)  
17:00
Welcome Drinks (until 19:30)
12:25 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Session 3 - Massimo Blasone (until 15:15)
14:00 Qubit entanglement from forward scattering [20'+5'] - Kamila Kowalska (National Centre for Nuclear Research)  
14:25 Entanglement, Symmetries and Higgs Physics [20'+5'] - Carlos Wagner  
14:50 Quantum Entanglement and Enhanced Symmetries: From Two-body to Many-body systems [20'+5'] - Ian Low  
15:15 --- Coffee Break ---
15:45
Session 3 - Eleni Vryonidou (University of Cyprus (CY)) (until 16:35)
15:45 Does Entanglement Suppression Lead to Enhanced Symmetries? [20'+5'] - Spencer Chang (University of Oregon)  
16:10 Symmetries of the S-matrix from the lens of Quantum Information and Computation [20'+5'] - Navin McGinnis  
16:35 Plenary talk: Entangled squeezed quantum states of gravitons as a probe of Quantum Gravity [40'+5'] - Nikos Mavromatos (University of London (GB))  
17:20
Poster Session + Drinks (until 19:00)
12:25 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Session 6 - Frederic Deliot (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Vasiliki Mitsou (IFIC, CSIC-UV) (until 15:15)
14:00 Decoherence at colliders [20'+5'] - Rafael Aoude  
14:25 Decoherence in high energy collisions as renormalization group flow [20'+5'] - Liantao Wang  
14:50 Experimental prospects for the measurement of quantum decoherence at colliders [20'+5'] - Marcel Vos (IFIC Valencia (ES))  
15:15 --- Coffee break ---
15:45
Session 7 - Yu Shi Michal Eckstein (until 16:35)
15:45 Practically and Efficiently Verifying Entanglement with an Incomplete Measurement Setting [20'+5'] - Joonwoo Bae (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)  
16:10 Nonlocality of quantum transformations: structure and certification [20'+5'] - Albert Rico  
16:35 Plenary talk: Laboratory-based tests of quantum effects in the gravitational field - Vlatko Vedral [40'+5'] - Vlatko Vedral  
17:20 Panel Discussion 1 - QIS for HEP, HEP for QIS - Beatrix Hiesmayr (IT:U Austria) Regina Demina (University of Rochester (US))  
19:30
Workshop Dinner (until 21:30)
14:00
Session 9 - Martin John White (University of Adelaide (AU)) (until 15:30)
14:00 Magic in high energy scattering [20'+5'] - Chris White (Queen Mary University of London)  
14:25 Flavoured non-local magic [20'+5'] - Giorgio Busoni (Adelaide University)  
14:50 The Quantum Magic of Standard Model Parameters [20'+5'] - Zhewei Yin  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
Session 9 - Martin John White (University of Adelaide (AU)) (until 17:00)
16:00 Gauge invariance from QI [20'+5'] - Alba Cervera Lierta (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)  
16:25 Extremal Magic States from Symmetric Lattices [20'+5'] - Kazuki Sakurai (University of Warsaw)  
17:00
QTI Seminar - Pawel Horodecki (Gdansk University of Technology) (until 18:00) (222/R-001)
17:00 Correlations and information processing - quantum and beyond - Pawel Horodecki (Gdansk University of Technology)  
18:00 Panel Discussion 2 - What constitutes a measurement in HEP experiments? - Prof. Christopher Timpson (University of Oxford) Juan Ramon Munoz De Nova   (222/R-001)
14:30
Visit at the ATLAS visitor center (until 15:30)