AcÃn Dal Maschio, Antonio
Research Professor
Engineering Sciences
Institucio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats
Spain
Biography
Antonio Acín is an ICREA Research Professor at ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences. He has a degree in Physics from the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. He got his PhD in Theoretical Physics in 2001 from the UB. After a post-doctoral stay in Geneva, in the group of Prof. Gisin (GAP-Optique), he joined ICFO in 2003. At ICFO, Acín leads the Quantum Information Theory group. He was awarded a Starting Grant and a Proof of Concept grant from the European Research Council (ERC), starting in 2008 and 2012, respectively. He has later been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant, starting in 2014.
Research Interest
Quantum Information Theory, Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Thermodynamics, Many-Body Physics and Quantum Optics
Publications
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"Almost all quantum states have nonclassical correlations A. Ferraro, L. Aolita, D. Cavalcanti, F. M. Cucchietti, A. AcÃn Phys. Rev. A 81, 052318 (2010), second most cited paper in PRA in 2010"
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"Device-independent security of quantum cryptography against collective attacks A. AcÃn, N. Brunner, N. Gisin, S. Massar, S. Pironio, V. Scarani Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 230501 (2007)"
