World Quantum Days in IFIN-HH

Apr 27, 2026, 8:45 AM → Apr 29, 2026, 9:25 PM Europe/Bucharest

National Library of Physics

Welcome to the 5th edition of the Workshop "World Quantum Days in IFIN-HH"!

The event will take place on 27 - 29 April 2026 at the National Library of Physics in Magurele. 

Organized by the Department of Theoretical Physics, IFIN-HH

Local organizers:

• Mirela Babalic
• Tatiana Mihaescu
• Alexandru Dumitrescu
• Aurelian Isar

Zoom link

Mon, April 27

8:45 AM → 9:00 AM Opening

Speaker: Aurelian Isar (IFIN-HH)

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Session 1

9:00 AM Geometric quantum discord of a two-qubit state generated by optimal universal asymmetric cloning machines

Speaker: Prof. Iulia Ghiu (University of Bucharest)

9:30 AM Quantum simulation of spin-lattice relaxation processes in nitrogen-vacancy centers

Speaker: Dr Radu Dragomir (National Institute for Materials Physics, Magurele)

10:00 AM The clock ambiguity is back with a vengeance and a message

Speaker: Dr Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica (IFIN-HH)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Session 2

11:00 AM Exploring the Steady-State Phase Structure of a Driven Kerr Oscillator

Speaker: Dr Gabriel Pascu (West University of Timișoara)

11:30 AM Quantum communication using Gaussian variables

Speaker: Dr Marina Cuzminschi (IFIN HH, DFT)

12:00 PM High Power Lasers in quantum information: Novel Perspectives

Speaker: Dr Alexei Zubarev (National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics)

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch Break

1:30 PM → 2:30 PM Session 3

1:30 PM Quartet Structure Above 100Sn and 132Sn Isotopes

Speaker: Mr Alexandru Silviu Pencu (IFIN HH, DFT)

2:00 PM Werner states in non-inertial frames

Speaker: Mr Madalin-Mihai Calamanciuc (IFIN HH)

Tue, April 28

10:00 AM → 11:45 AM Session 1

10:00 AM The quantum century - from paradoxes to future technologies

Speaker: Prof. Radu Ionicioiu (IFIN HH, DFT)

10:30 AM An open-source single-photon detector

Speaker: Mrs Irina Bradu (University Politehnica of Bucharest)

11:00 AM Quantum Computing at IBM

Speaker: Ms Diana Dragomirescu (IBM Quantum)

11:30 AM Digitalizarea operei stiintifice a lui Alexandru Proca

Speaker: Prof. Victor Barsan (IFIN HH, DFT)

11:45 AM → 12:15 PM Coffee Break

12:15 PM → 1:45 PM Session 2

12:15 PM Wave Dark Matter corrections to nonlinear structure of spiral galaxies and galactic rogue waves

Speaker: Prof. Adrian Stefan Carstea (IFIN HH, DFT)

12:45 PM Interference effects in thermal fields

Speaker: Prof. Mihai Macovei (Institute of Applied Physics, Moldova State University)

1:15 PM A double quantum dot interacting with two thermal baths

Speaker: Dr Victor Ceban (Institute of Applied Physics, Moldova State University)

1:45 PM → 2:45 PM Lunch Break

2:45 PM → 4:45 PM Session 3

2:45 PM Quantum Hacking: Threat Landscape and Mitigation Frameworks

Speaker: Mr Cristian Ilie (Universitatea Nationala de Stiinta si Tehnologie POLITEHNICA Bucuresti)

3:15 PM Evolution of Renyi-2 Quantum Correlations of Two Coupled Bosonic Modes in a Thermal Environment

Speaker: Mr Alexandru Chirvasa (IFIN HH, DFT)

3:45 PM TBA

Speaker: Mr Vasile-Alin Sevestrean (IFIN-HH, FF-UB, CIFRA)

4:15 PM NPT entanglement witnesses based on second moments

Speaker: Dr Tatiana Mihaescu (IFIN HH, DFT)

Wed, April 29

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Session 1

9:00 AM Linear Hamiltonians in generators of the real Jacobi group on the extended Sigel-Jacobi space

Speaker: Prof. Stefan Berceanu (IFIN HH, DFT)

9:30 AM Spacetime mutual information can act as a cryptographic key

Speaker: Dr Christina Rugina (University of Bucharest and Canadian Quantum Research Center)

10:00 AM Comments on type II_1 von Neumann algebra in de Sitter space

Speaker: Mr Adrian Zaharia (Faculty of Physics of the University of Bucharest)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Session 2

11:00 AM Testing Quantum Mechanics Underground: Pauli Exclusion Principle and Collapse Models

Speaker: Prof. Catalina Oana Curceanu (INFN-LNF)

11:30 AM On the couplings between Weyl and electromagnetic fields

Speaker: Prof. Eugen-Mihaita Cioroianu (University of Craiova, Department of Physics)

12:00 PM Generalized Brackets and their Dynamical Effect

Speaker: Dr Ciprian-Sorin Acatrinei (IFIN HH, DFT)

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch Break

1:30 PM → 3:00 PM Session 3

1:30 PM Thoughts on the Artificial Intelligence Driven Numerical Quadrature of Integrals

Speaker: Prof. Gheorghe Adam (IFIN-HH and LIT-JINR)

2:00 PM Entanglement in the Trees: Optimal Entanglement Distribution in Binary Tree Quantum Network Topologies

Speaker: Mr Iulian-Ioan Birlica (POLITEHNICA Bucharest)

2:30 PM Theorems for distinguishing causality from correlation and applications to climate physics

Speaker: Mr Denis Nichita (IFIN HH, DFT)

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Coffee Break

3:30 PM → 4:30 PM Session 4

3:30 PM TBA

Speaker: Mrs Alina-Alexandra Stoica (IFIN HH, DFT)

4:00 PM Quantum entanglement of two bosonic modes in de Sitter space

Speaker: Prof. Aurelian Isar (IFIN-HH)