Quantum Observables for Collider Physics 2026

from Monday, April 20, 2026 (9:00 AM) to Friday, April 24, 2026 (6:00 PM)
CERN (4/3-006)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Apr 20, 2026
Apr 21, 2026
Apr 22, 2026
Apr 23, 2026
Apr 24, 2026
AM
11:00 AM
CERN access and badge collection (until 11:45 AM)
11:45 AM --- Lunch Break ---
9:00 AM
Session 2 - James William Howarth (University of Glasgow (GB)) dorival Gonçalves (Oklahoma State University) (until 10:40 AM)
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 ---
11:10 AM
Session 2 - Giulia Negro (Purdue University (US)) Eleanor Jones (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) (until 12:25 PM)
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))  
9:00 AM
Session 4 - Laura Zani Sven Vahsen (University of Hawaii (US)) (until 10:40 AM)
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 ---
11:10 AM
Session 5 - Luca Marzola (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE)) (until 12:25 PM)
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))  
9:15 AM
Session 8 - Yoshitaka Hatta (BNL) (until 10:30 AM)
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 ---
11:00 AM
Session 8 - Laura Pintucci (Universita degli Studi di Udine (IT)) (until 11:50 AM)
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 ---
9:15 AM
Session 10 - Marcel Vos (IFIC Valencia (ES)) (until 10:30 AM)
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 ---
11:00 AM
Session 10 - Marcel Vos (IFIC Valencia (ES)) (until 11:25 AM)
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))  
11:45 AM --- Lunch Break ---
PM
1:00 PM Welcome and Introduction - Yoav Afik (University of Chicago (US))   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
1:15 PM Plenary talk: Bell nonlocality: from foundations to applications - Nicolas Brunner (University of Geneva)  
2:00 PM
Session 1 - Juan Ramon Munoz De Nova (until 2:50 PM)
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)  
3:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM
CERN Colloquium (until 5:00 PM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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 (until 7:30 PM)
12:25 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM
Session 3 - Massimo Blasone (until 3:15 PM)
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 ---
3:45 PM
Session 3 - Eleni Vryonidou (University of Cyprus (CY)) (until 4:35 PM)
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))  
5:20 PM
Poster Session + Drinks (until 7:00 PM)
12:25 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM
Session 6 - Frederic Deliot (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Vasiliki Mitsou (IFIC, CSIC-UV) (until 3:15 PM)
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 ---
3:45 PM
Session 7 - Yu Shi Michal Eckstein (until 4:35 PM)
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  
5:20 PM Panel Discussion 1 - QIS for HEP, HEP for QIS - Beatrix Hiesmayr (IT:U Austria) Regina Demina (University of Rochester (US))  
7:30 PM
Workshop Dinner (until 9:30 PM)
2:00 PM
Session 9 - Martin John White (University of Adelaide (AU)) (until 3:30 PM)
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 ---
4:00 PM
Session 9 - Martin John White (University of Adelaide (AU)) (until 5:00 PM)
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 - Pawel Horodecki (Gdansk University of Technology) (until 6:00 PM) (222/R-001)
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? - Prof. Christopher Timpson (University of Oxford) Juan Ramon Munoz De Nova   (222/R-001)
2:30 PM
Visit at the ATLAS visitor center (until 3:30 PM)