Principal Investigator: Fabio Sciarrino (Coordinator of Phoqusing)
Full Professor at the Physics Department of the University of Rome La Sapienza and Senior Research Fellow at the International School for Advanced Studies Sapienza, SSAS. He is Principal Investigator of the Quantum Information Lab, Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome. His main expertise is experimental quantum optics, computation and quantum information, and foundations of quantum mechanics. In recent years his research activity has focused on the implementation of quantum information protocols via integrated photonic circuits, with particular interest for Boson Sampling, a non-universal computational model with promising characteristics to achieve the quantum supremacy regime.
Team members involved in PHOQUSING:
Gonzalo Carvacho, Lecturer
Expertise on quantum information experiments with different photonic platforms. Gonzalo provided contributions to the development and implementation of algorithms for randomness manipulation (WP1), to the analysis of the architecture requirements (WP2), contributed to the system integration of QOLOSSUS sampling machine (WP5) and to the circuit calibration (WP6).
Francesco Hoch, Post-doc
Expertise on multiphoton experiments with integrated photonic devices. Francesco contributed to the development and implementation of algorithms for randomness manipulation (WP1), to performing multiphoton experiments with different circuit architectures (WP2), to the system integration of QOLOSSUS sampling machine (WP5), to the system validation process (WP6), and to the implementation of variational quantum algorithms (WP7).
Giorgio Milani, Technician 
Expertise in the development of electronic acquisition systems. Contributed to the preparation of the Lab and to the assembly of the QOLOSSUS machine (WP5), and to the development of the control electronic system for the multiclient blind quantum computing activity (WP7).
Giuliana Pensa, Project Manager 
Project manager of the team’s EU projects FET-OPEN PHOQUSING (2020-2024), ERC ADVANCED GRANT QU-BOSS (2020-2025), FET-OPEN CANCER SCAN (2019-2024), DIGITAL-EMERGING EPIQUE (2023-2025).
Giovanni Rodari, PhD student
Expertise on multiphoton experiments with integrated photonic devices. Contributed to the preparation of the Lab and to the assembly of the QOLOSSUS machine (WP5), to the development and testing of protocol for multiphoton interference validation (WP6) and to the implementation of variational quantum cloning in the integrated platform (WP7).
Alessia Suprano (now working at Leonardo)
Expertise on photonic quantum walks with different platforms. Alessia contributed to the assembly of the QOLOSSUS machine and on the interface of quantum dot sources with integrated photonic circuits (WP5, WP7).
Nicolò Spagnolo, Associate Professor
Expertise on Boson Sampling experiments and validation, on quantum simulation and on quantum metrology with integrated photonics. Nicolò contributed to developing sampling algorithms (WP1), to the assembly of the QOLOSSUS machine (WP5), and to certification protocols for system validation (WP6).
Danilo Zia, Post-doc
Expertise on implementation of quantum information protocols with different degrees of freedom. Contributed to the preparation of the Lab and to the assembly of the QOLOSSUS machine (WP5).
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