Filippo CARUSO

Ruolo attuale:: Professore Ordinario
SSD:: PHYS-04/A - Fisica teorica della materia, modelli, metodi matematici e applicazioni
Afferenza organizzativa:: Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia

Recapiti

	0554572334
	filippo.caruso(AT)unifi.it

Ulteriori Recapiti

	office 330
	https://q-ai.weebly.com

Avvisi

Lezioni Quantum Machine Learning

Le lezioni del corso QML inizieranno giorno 15 Settembre 2025 e si svolgeranno tutti i lunedì dalle 10:15 alle 13:15 e dalle 14 alle 16, sempre in Aula Informatica 112 del CdM (1° piano).

Filippo CARUSO

Orario di ricevimento (aggiornato al 28/10/2023)

Su appuntamento scrivendo a filippo.caruso@unifi.it

Filippo CARUSO

Curriculum

WORK EXPERIENCE

from 2018 to today	Associate Professor Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Florence - Member of Academic Board of the PhD in Atomic and Molecular Photonics, LENS - Member of university committee for ANVUR VQR 2015-2019 - Member of committee for renewal of postdoc and research grants
from 2015 to 2018	RTD-B Researcher Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Florence - Member of university committee for ANVUR VQR 2011-2014
from 2012 to 2015	RTD-A Researcher (as FIRB-MIUR coordinator) Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Florence
from 2011 to 2012	Postdoctoral Researcher (as EU Marie-Curie CIG Research Fellow) European Laboratory of Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Florence
from 2009 to 2011	Postdoctoral Researcher (as EU Marie-Curie IEF Research Fellow) Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Ulm (Germany)
from 2008 to 2009	Postdoctoral Researcher in Quantum Information Theory Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Imperial College London (UK)

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

from 2005 to 2008

Thesis title: Quantum Information transfer over Quantum Channels

Final mark: 70/70 cum laude.

from 2000 to 2005

Masters Degree in Physics, Physics Department, University of Catania

Thesis title: Optimal Eavesdropping in Quantum Cryptography

Final mark: 110/110 cum laude. GPA: 30/30 cum laude (in all exams).

from 2000 to 2005

Diploma of Licenza, Scuola Superiore of Catania (Univ. School of Excellence for Higher Education). Title: Storing Quantum Information via Atomic Dark Resonances.

Final mark: 70/70 cum laude. GPA: 30/30 cum laude.

Research- expertise

Research interests in quantum Information science, quantum technologies, quantum machine learning, open quantum systems, decoherence, optimal control theory, entanglement, quantum networks, quantum effects in atomic and molecular systems, quantum transport phenomena, quantum measurements, noise correlations, quantum random walks, quantum optics and communication, complex (even biological) quantum systems.
Since 2004 participation to more than 90 international conferences & research visits around the world, including more than 60oral presentations and more than 40 invited talks.
Own research achievements have been also cited and highlighted, among others, in Nature group journals, as in Nat.Phys. 6, 402-403 (2010), Nat. Phys. 8, 285-91 (2012), Nat. Phys. 8, 562-567 (2012), Nat. Phys. 9, 10-18 (2013), Nat.Phys. 9, 113-118 (2013), Nat. Phot. 8, 796-800 (2014), and in the book "Quantum Effects in Biology" (Cambridge Univ.Press).
Selected and nominated by the European Commission for participation in the 66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting2016 in Physics, where around 200 highly-talented young scientists from all over the world (after highly competitivemulti-step selection) meet and discuss informally for one week with more than 30 Nobel Laureates in Physics(www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/meetings/2016).

Awards

2015 Physics Award, Accademia dei Lincei, Roma, with the President of the Italian Republic (Sergio Mattarella).
2006 Award as the best young researcher in Physics by Italian Physical Society.
2006 Ettore Majorana Award as the best young researcher in Theoretical Physics (Majorana's birth centennial) by Rotary International.

Conference organization

Single Chair Organizer of the Italian Quantum Information Science Conference IQIS2017 in Florence, 11-15 September 2017: around 200 participants, 30 invited speakers, 10 tutorial lectures, and 150 contributions.
Single Chair Organizer of the International Conference on Quantum Effects in Biological Systems, QuEBS2015. It has been organized earlier by very prestigious institutions, as Harvard and UC Berkeley, and has been for the first time in Italy, June 29-July 2, 2015, in the Hall of the Five Hundreds in Palazzo Vecchio and in Villa Bardini, Florence: 150 participants, 25 invited speakers and around 70 contributions (quebs2015.weebly.com).
Single Organizer of the International Meeting on Quantum Transport in Light-Harvesting Bio-Nanostructures, at Phys. Dept. of Florence Univ., March 2013, Florence, Italy. Around 80 participants and 6 invited speakers.
Local Organizer of the Workshop QuEBS 2011, with around 100 participants, August 2011, Ulm, Germany.

Bibliometrics

Since 2005 he has published more than 70 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, whereof 29 as first author, 26 as last author, and 1 as single author, including 1 Rev. Mod. Phys., 3 Nature Commun., 1 Nature Mat., 1 Nature npj Quant. Inf., 2 Nature Quantum Machine Intelligence, 3 Nature Sci. Rep., 4 Phys. Rev. Lett., 19 Phys. Rev., 11 NJP, 1 Adv. Quantum Tech., and 1 Ann. Phys. As of April 2022, his publications have attracted more than 2400 citations according to ISI-Web [>3700 citations according to Google Scholar]. His h-index is 23 (ISI-Web) [28 (Google Scholar)], while his i10-index is 50 (Google Scholar). See more details at links below:

Publons: https://publons.com/researcher/2542789/filippo-caruso

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=qniSN5QAAAAJ

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/filippocaruso

Projects

- EuroHPC JU 2021-2025: High-Performance Computer and Quantum Simulator hybrid (HPCQS) - CNR Team Leader and National Coordinator

- HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING (RIA), 2022-2026, Multiscale quantum bio-imaging and spectroscopy (MUQUABIS) – Team leader

- CINECA, 2021-2022, ISCRA grant (in collaboration with PASQAL) on ML-based Quantum Noise Benchmarking of PASQAL towards QML applications (MLpasqal) – PI

- European Defence Agency, 2021-2024, Quantum LAser-based Multi-parametric Portable Sensor (Q-LAMPS) – Team leader

- EU H2020-FETOPEN, 2019-2024: Photonic and nAnomeTric High-sensitivity biO-Sensing (PATHOS) – EU Coordinator

- 2018-2020, Artificial Intelligence towards new quantum technologies (Quantum-AI), Fondazione CR Firenze – PI

- 2015-2018, Quantum tomography of biological complex systems (Q-BIOSCAN), Fondazione CR Firenze – PI

- FIRB-MIUR 2012-2015, Optical Simulators of quantum transports in photosynthetic systems and perspectives towards new solar energy quantum technologies – PI

- FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG, 2011-2015, Quantum phenomena in biology: theory and experiments towards novel solar energy quantum technologies (Quantum BioTech), Individual Fellowship

- FP7-PEOPLE-IEF-2008, 2009-2011, Information transfer with correlated noise and memory effects in quantum communication technologies (Memory Quantum ICT), Individual Fellowship

- Participation to EU Integrating project Q-ESSENCE (2010-2013), EU STREP CORNER (2009-2012), EPSRC QIP-IRC (2005-2010), EU Integrating project QAP (2005-2010)

Outreach and Press release

- Own research activity was highlighted in two full pages by the Italian edition of Scientific American (Le Scienze), March 2017.

- Invited talk on Reverse Brain Drain & Quantum Technologies, by the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers (M. Renzi), in front of around 50.000 people and live (Sky) TV streaming, in Piazza del Popolo, Rome, Oct. 29, 2016.

- Nature Commun. 2016’s paper has been highlighted by MIT Technology Review and the Italian Newspapers as ANSA and Repubblica.

- His participation to the 66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Physics 2016 has been highlighted in the Italian Newspapers as Corriere della Sera and La Sicilia.

- Press release in several national newspapers for the Physics 2015 Award (with the President of the Italian Republic S. Mattarella and with the Senate President P. Grasso, Rome, 2015), and for the invited participation (with public outreach talk) in presence of the Italian Chamber of Deputies President L. Boldrini (Catania, 2013).

Main research products

(max 10)

(1) Experimental Quantum Embedding for Machine Learning. I. Gianani, I. Mastroserio, L. Buffoni, N. Bruno, L. Donati, V. Cimini, M. Barbieri, F.S. Cataliotti, and F. Caruso. Advanced Quantum Technologies 5, 2100140 (2022) + Front Cover

(2) Experimental characterization of the energetics of quantum logic gates. V. Cimini, S. Gherardini, M. Barbieri, I. Gianani, M. Sbroscia, L. Buffoni, M. Paternostro, and F. Caruso. npj Quantum Inf. 6, 96 (2020)

(3) Fast Escape from Quantum Mazes in Integrated Photonics. F. Caruso, A. Crespi, A.G. Ciriolo, F. Sciarrino, and R. Osellame. Nature Commun. 7, 11682 (2016)

(4) Enhanced energy transport in genetically engineered excitonic networks. H. Park, N. Heldman, P. Rebentrost, L. Abbondanza, A. Iagatti, A. Alessi, B. Patrizi, M. Salvalaggio, L. Bussotti, M. Mohseni, F. Caruso, H.C. Johnsen, R. Fusco, P. Foggi, P.F. Scudo, S. Lloyd, A.M. Belcher. Nature Materials 15, 211216 (2016)

(5) Observation of Noise-Assisted Transport in an All-Optical Cavity-Based Network. S. Viciani, M. Lima, M. Bellini, and F. Caruso. Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 083601 (2015), PRL Editors' Suggestion

(6) Quantum channels and memory effects. F. Caruso, V. Giovannetti, C. Lupo, S. Mancini. Rev. Mod. Phys. 86, 1203 (2014)

(7) Experimental realization of quantum zeno dynamics. F. Schaefer, I. Herrera, S. Cherukattil, C. Lovecchio, F.S. Cataliotti, F. Caruso, A. Smerzi. Nature Commun. 5, 3194 (2014)

(8) Spatial entanglement of bosons in optical lattices. M. Cramer, A. Bernard, N. Fabbri, L. Fallani, C. Fort, S. Rosi, F. Caruso, M. Inguscio, M.B. Plenio. Nature Commun. 4, 2161 (2013)

(9) Noise-enhanced classical and quantum capacities in communication network. F. Caruso, S.F. Huelga, M.B. Plenio. Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 190501 (2010)

(10) Teleportation-Induced Correlated Quantum Channels. F. Caruso, V. Giovannetti, and M. Palma. Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 020503 (2010)

Filippo CARUSO

Pubblicazioni

Legenda

Contributo su rivista |

Articolo su libro |

Libro |

Contributo in atti di convegno (proceeding) |

Brevetto |

Curatela | Altro

Altro |

Tesi di Dottorato

Haim, Galya; Martina, Stefano; Howell, John; Bar-Gill, Nir; Caruso, Filippo (2025). Machine-learning based high-bandwidth magnetic sensing. MACHINE LEARNING: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, vol. 6, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2632-2153 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Cappiello, Giacomo; Caruso, Filippo (2025). Quantum AI for Alzheimer’s disease early screening. NEUROCOMPUTING, vol. 647, pp. 0-0, ISSN:0925-2312 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Das, Sreetama; Martina, Stefano; Caruso, Filippo (2024). The role of data embedding in equivariant quantum convolutional neural networks. QUANTUM MACHINE INTELLIGENCE, vol. 6, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2524-4906 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Parigi M.; Martina S.; Caruso F. (2024). Quantum-Noise-Driven Generative Diffusion Models. ADVANCED QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES, vol. -, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2511-9044 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Virzì, Salvatore; Knoll, Laura T.; Avella, Alessio; Piacentini, Fabrizio; Gherardini, Stefano; Gramegna, Marco; Kurizki, Gershon; Kofman, Abraham G.; Degiovanni, Ivo Pietro; Genovese, Marco; Caruso, Filippo (2024). Sensing microscopic noise events by frequent quantum measurements. PHYSICAL REVIEW APPLIED, vol. 21, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2331-7019 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Canonici, Ettore; Martina, Stefano; Mengoni, Riccardo; Ottaviani, Daniele; Caruso, Filippo (2024). Machine Learning based Noise Characterization and Correction on Neutral Atoms NISQ Devices. ADVANCED QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES, vol. 7, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2511-9044 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Virzì, S.; Knoll, L. T.; Piacentini, F.; Avella, A.; Gherardini, S.; Opatrný, T.; Kofman, A. G.; Kurizki, G.; Gramegna, M.; Caruso, F.; Degiovanni, I. P.; Genovese, M. (2024). Experimental quantum noise sensing via quantum Zeno/anti-Zeno effect. OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, pp. 0-0 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Das, Sreetama; Caruso, Filippo (2024). Permutation-equivariant quantum convolutional neural networks. QUANTUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, vol. 10, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2058-9565 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Paiano, Matteo; Martina, Stefano; Giannelli, Carlotta; Caruso, Filippo (2024). Transfer learning with generative models for object detection on limited datasets. MACHINE LEARNING: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, vol. 5, pp. 1-28, ISSN:2632-2153 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Stefano Martina; Santiago Hernández-Gómez; Stefano Gherardini; Filippo Caruso; Nicole Fabbri (2023). Deep learning enhanced noise spectroscopy of a spin qubit environment. MACHINE LEARNING: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, vol. 4, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2632-2153 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Stefano Martina; Stefano Gherardini; Filippo Caruso (2023). Machine learning classification of non-Markovian noise disturbing quantum dynamics. PHYSICA SCRIPTA, vol. 98, pp. 0-0, ISSN:0031-8949 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Das, S; Zhang, JF; Martina, S; Suter, D; Caruso, F (2023). Quantum pattern recognition on real quantum processing units. QUANTUM MACHINE INTELLIGENCE, vol. 5, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2524-4906 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Das, Sreetama; Caruso, Filippo (2023). A hybrid-qudit representation of digital RGB images. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, vol. 13, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2045-2322 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Mastroserio, I; Gherardini, S; Lovecchio, C; Calarco, T; Montangero, S; Cataliotti, FS; Caruso, F (2022). Experimental Realization of Optimal Time-Reversal on an Atom Chip for Quantum Undo Operations. ADVANCED QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES, pp. 2200057-1-2200057-11, ISSN:2511-9044 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Martina S.; Buffoni L.; Gherardini S.; Caruso F. (2022). Learning the noise fingerprint of quantum devices. QUANTUM MACHINE INTELLIGENCE, vol. 4, pp. 1-12, ISSN:2524-4906 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Braccia P.; Banchi L.; Caruso F. (2022). Quantum Noise Sensing by Generating Fake Noise. PHYSICAL REVIEW APPLIED, vol. 17, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2331-7019 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Martina, Stefano; Gherardini, Stefano; Buffoni, Lorenzo; Caruso, Filippo (2022). Noise fingerprints in quantum computers: Machine learning software tools. SOFTWARE IMPACTS, vol. 12, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2665-9638 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Laneve, Alessandro; Geraldi, Andrea; Hamiti, Frenkli; Mataloni, Paolo; Caruso, Filippo (2022). Experimental multi-state quantum discrimination through optical networks. QUANTUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, vol. 7, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2058-9565 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Dalla Pozza, Nicola; Buffoni, Lorenzo; Martina, Stefano; Caruso, Filippo (2022). Quantum reinforcement learning: the maze problem. QUANTUM MACHINE INTELLIGENCE, vol. 4, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2524-4906 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Gherardini S.; Smirne A.; Huelga S.F.; Caruso F. (2022). Transfer-tensor description of memory effects in open-system dynamics and multi-time statistics. QUANTUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, vol. 7, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2058-9565 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Virzì, Salvatore; Avella, Alessio; Piacentini, Fabrizio; Gramegna, Marco; Opatrný, Tomáš; Kofman, Abraham G; Kurizki, Gershon; Gherardini, Stefano; Caruso, Filippo; Degiovanni, Ivo Pietro; Genovese, Marco (2022). Quantum Zeno and Anti-Zeno Probes of Noise Correlations in Photon Polarization. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, vol. 129, pp. 030401-1-030401-7, ISSN:0031-9007 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Stefano Gherardini; Henk J. van Waarde; Pietro Tesi; Filippo Caruso (2022). Topology identification of autonomous quantum dynamical networks. PHYSICAL REVIEW A, vol. 106, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2469-9926 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Gianani, I; Mastroserio, I; Buffoni, L; Bruno, N; Donati, L; Cimini, V; Barbieri, M; Cataliotti, FS; Caruso, F (2022). Experimental Quantum Embedding for Machine Learning. ADVANCED QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES, vol. 5, pp. 2100140-1-2100140-8, ISSN:2511-9044 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Müller, Matthias M; Gherardini, Stefano; Calarco, Tommaso; Montangero, Simone; Caruso, Filippo (2022). Information theoretical limits for quantum optimal control solutions: error scaling of noisy control channels. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, vol. 12, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2045-2322 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Ilaria Gianani; Ivana Mastroserio; Lorenzo Buffoni; Natalia Bruno; Ludovica Donati; Valeria Cimini; Marco Barbieri; Francesco S. Cataliotti; Filippo Caruso (2022). Front Cover: Experimental Quantum Embedding for Machine Learning (Adv. Quantum Technol. 8/2022). ADVANCED QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES, vol. 5, pp. 21001401-21001408, ISSN:2511-9044 DOI

Gherardini S.; Muller M.M.; Montangero S.; Calarco T.; Caruso F. (2022). Information flow and error scaling for fully quantum control. PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH, vol. 4, pp. 1-10, ISSN:2643-1564 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Braccia P.; Caruso F.; Banchi L. (2021). How to enhance quantum generative adversarial learning of noisy information. NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS, vol. 23, pp. 053024-053036, ISSN:1367-2630 DOI

Gherardini, Stefano; Campaioli, Francesco; Caruso, Filippo; Binder, Felix C. (2020). Stabilizing open quantum batteries by sequential measurements. PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH, vol. 2, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2643-1564 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Muller M.M.; Gherardini S.; Dalla Pozza N.; Caruso F. (2020). Noise sensing via stochastic quantum Zeno. PHYSICS LETTERS A, vol. 384, pp. 126244-126244, ISSN:0375-9601 DOI

Dalla Pozza N.; Caruso F. (2020). Quantum Stochastic Walk models for quantum state discrimination. PHYSICS LETTERS A, vol. 384, pp. 126195-126195, ISSN:0375-9601 DOI

Stefano Gherardini; Stefano Marcantoni; Filippo Caruso (2020). Irreversibility mitigation in unital non-Markovian quantum evolutions. PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2643-1564 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Nicola Dalla Pozza; Filippo Caruso (2020). Quantum state discrimination on reconfigurable noise-robust quantum networks. PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH, vol. 2, pp. 043011-1-043011-16, ISSN:2643-1564 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Buffoni L.; Caruso F. (2020). New trends in quantum machine learning. EUROPHYSICS LETTERS, vol. 132, pp. 0-0, ISSN:0295-5075 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Cimini V.; Gherardini S.; Barbieri M.; Gianani I.; Sbroscia M.; Buffoni L.; Paternostro M.; Caruso F. (2020). Experimental characterization of the energetics of quantum logic gates. NPJ QUANTUM INFORMATION, vol. 6, pp. 1-8, ISSN:2056-6387 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Gherardini, Stefano; Smirne, Andrea; Müller, Matthias M.; Caruso, Filippo (2019). Advances in Sequential Measurement and Control of Open Quantum Systems. In: 11th Italian Quantum Information Science Conference, G. Falci, E. Paladino, M. Palma, G. G. N. Angilella, A. La Magna and F. M. D. Pellegrino, vol. 12, pp. 0-0. DOI

Do H.-V.; Lovecchio C.; Mastroserio I.; Fabbri N.; Cataliotti F.S.; Gherardini S.; Muller M.M.; Dalla Pozza N.; Caruso F. (2019). Experimental proof of quantum Zeno-assisted noise sensing. NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS, vol. 21, pp. 113056/1-113056/12, ISSN:1367-2630 DOI

Pozza N.D.; Gherardini S.; Muller M.M.; Caruso F. (2019). Role of the filter functions in noise spectroscopy. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUANTUM INFORMATION, vol. 17, pp. 1941008-1941008, ISSN:0219-7499 DOI

Gherardini, Stefano; Buffoni, Lorenzo; Müller, Matthias M.; Caruso, Filippo; Campisi, Michele; Trombettoni, Andrea; Ruffo, Stefano (2018). Nonequilibrium quantum-heat statistics under stochastic projective measurements. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, vol. 98, pp. 1-12, ISSN:2470-0045 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Gherardini, Stefano; Müller, Matthias M.; Trombettoni, Andrea; Ruffo, Stefano; Caruso, Filippo* (2018). Reconstructing quantum entropy production to probe irreversibility and correlations. QUANTUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, vol. 3, pp. 035013-1-035013-28, ISSN:2058-9565 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Matthias M. Mueller, Stefano Gherardini, Filippo Caruso (2018). Noise-robust quantum sensing via optimal multi-probe spectroscopy. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, vol. 8, pp. 14278-1-14278-17, ISSN:2045-2322 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Le, Thao P.*; Donati, Ludovica; Severini, Simone; Caruso, Filippo (2018). How to suppress dark states in quantum networks and bio-engineered structures. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. A, MATHEMATICAL AND THEORETICAL, vol. 51, pp. 365306-1-365306-18, ISSN:1751-8113 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Muller, M.M.; Gherardini, S.; Caruso, F. (2017). Quantum Zeno Dynamics Through Stochastic Protocols. ANNALEN DER PHYSIK, vol. 529, pp. 1600206-1-1600206-12, ISSN:0003-3804 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Gherardini, Stefano; Lovecchio, Cosimo; Müller, Matthias M; Lombardi, Pietro; Caruso, Filippo; Cataliotti, Francesco Saverio (2017). Ergodicity in randomly perturbed quantum systems. QUANTUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, vol. 2, pp. 015007.1-015007.9, ISSN:2058-9565 DOI

Gherardini, Stefano; Gupta, Shamik; Cataliotti, Francesco Saverio; Smerzi, Augusto; Caruso, Filippo; Ruffo, Stefano (2016). Stochastic quantum Zeno by large deviation theory. NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS, vol. 18, pp. 013048-1-013048-15, ISSN:1367-2630 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Müller, Matthias M.; Gherardini, Stefano; Smerzi, Augusto; Caruso, Filippo (2016). Fisher information from stochastic quantum measurements. PHYSICAL REVIEW A, vol. 94, pp. 042322-1-042322-7, ISSN:2469-9926 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Lovecchio, C.; Schäfer, F.; Cherukattil, S.; Alì Khan, M.; Herrera, I.; Cataliotti, F.S.; Calarco, T.; Montangero, S.; Caruso, F. (2016). Optimal preparation of quantum states on an atom-chip device. PHYSICAL REVIEW A, vol. 93, pp. 010304-1-010304-6, ISSN:2469-9926 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Caruso, Filippo; Crespi, Andrea; Ciriolo, Anna Gabriella; Sciarrino, Fabio; Osellame, Roberto (2016). Fast escape of a quantum walker from an integrated photonic maze. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 7, pp. 11682:1-11682:7, ISSN:2041-1723 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Müller, Matthias M.; Gherardini, Stefano; Caruso, Filippo (2016). Stochastic quantum Zeno-based detection of noise correlations. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, vol. 6, pp. 38650-1-38650-10, ISSN:2045-2322 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Viciani, Silvia; Gherardini, Stefano; Lima, Manuela; Bellini, Marco; Caruso, Filippo (2016). Disorder and dephasing as control knobs for light transport in optical fiber cavity networks. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, vol. 6, pp. 37791:1-37791:11, ISSN:2045-2322 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Park, Heechul; Heldman, Nimrod; Rebentrost, Patrick; Abbondanza, Luigi; Iagatti, Alessandro; Alessi, Andrea; Patrizi, Barbara; Salvataggio, Mario; Bussotti, Laura; Mohseni, Masoud; Caruso, Filippo; Johnsen, Hannah C.; Fusco, Roberto; Foggi, Paolo; Scudo, Petra F.; Lloyd, Seth; Belcher, Angela M. (2016). Enhanced energy transport in genetically engineered excitonic networks. NATURE MATERIALS, vol. 15, pp. 211-216, ISSN:1476-1122 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Ying Li; Filippo Caruso; Erik Gauger; Simon C. Benjamin (2015). ‘Momentum rejuvenation’ underlies the phenomenon of noise-assisted quantum energy flow. NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS, vol. 17, pp. 013057-1-013057-13, ISSN:1367-2630 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Viciani, Silvia; Lima, Manuela; Bellini, Marco; Caruso, Filippo (2015). Observation of Noise-Assisted Transport in an All-Optical Cavity-Based Network. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, vol. 115, pp. 083601-1-083601-5, ISSN:0031-9007 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Lovecchio, C.; Cherukattil, S.; Cilenti, B.; Herrera, I.; Cataliotti, F.S.; Montangero, S.; Calarco, T.; Caruso, F. (2015). Quantum state reconstruction on atom-chips. NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS, vol. 17, pp. 093024-1-093024-6, ISSN:1367-2630 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Mencucci, Rita; Matteoli, Sara; Corvi, Andrea; Terracciano, Luca; Favuzza, Eleonora; Gherardini, Stefano; Caruso, Filippo; Bellucci, Roberto (2015). Investigating the ocular temperature rise during femtosecond laser lens fragmentation: an in vitro study. GRAEFE'S ARCHIVE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL OPHTHALMOLOGY, vol. 253, pp. 2203-2210, ISSN:0721-832X DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Florian Schafer; Ivan Herrera; Shahid Cherukattil; Cosimo Lovecchio; Francesco Saverio Cataliotti; Filippo Caruso; Augusto Smerzi (2014). Experimental realization of quantum zeno dynamics. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 5, pp. 3194-1-3194-6, ISSN:2041-1723 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Filippo Caruso;Vittorio Giovannetti;Cosmo Lupo;Stefano Mancini (2014). Quantum channels and memory effects. REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS, vol. 86, pp. 1203-1259, ISSN:0034-6861 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

F. Caruso (2014). Universally optimal noisy quantum walks on complex networks. NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS, vol. 16, pp. 055015-1-055015-17, ISSN:1367-2630 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

S. Hoyer;F. Caruso;S. Montangero;M. Sarovar;T. Calarco;M. B. Plenio;K. B. Whaley (2014). Realistic and verifiable coherent control of excitonic states in a light-harvesting complex. NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS, vol. 16, pp. 045007-1-045007-22, ISSN:1367-2630 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

C. D'Errico;M. Moratti;E. Lucioni;L. Tanzi;B. Deissler;M. Inguscio;G. Modugno;M. B. Plenio;F. Caruso (2013). Quantum diffusion with disorder, noise and interaction. NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS, vol. 15, pp. 045007-1-045007-18, ISSN:1367-2630 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Marcus Cramer; Alain Bernard; Nicole Fabbri; Leonardo Fallani; Chiara Fort; Sara Rosi; Filippo Caruso; Massimo Inguscio; Martin Plenio (2013). Spatial entanglement of bosons in optical lattices. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 4, pp. 2161-1-2161-9, ISSN:2041-1723 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

F. Caruso;S. Montangero;T. Calarco;S. F. Huelga;M. B. Plenio (2012). Coherent optimal control of photosynthetic molecules. PHYSICAL REVIEW A, vol. 85, pp. 042331-1-042331-12, ISSN:1050-2947 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

J. Cai;F. Caruso;M. B. Plenio (2012). Quantum limits for the magnetic sensitivity of a chemical compass. PHYSICAL REVIEW A, vol. 85, pp. 040304-1-040304-5, ISSN:1050-2947 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

F. Caruso;S. K. Saikin;E. Solano;S. F. Huelga;A. Aspuru-Guzik;M. B. Plenio (2012). Probing biological light-harvesting phenomena by optical cavities. PHYSICAL REVIEW. B, CONDENSED MATTER AND MATERIALS PHYSICS, vol. 85, pp. 125424-1-125424-10, ISSN:1098-0121 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

F. Caruso;H. Kantz (2011). Prediction of extreme events in the OFC model on a small world network. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. B, CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, vol. 79, pp. 7-11, ISSN:1434-6028 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

F. Caruso;J. Eisert;V. Giovannetti;A. S. Holevo (2011). Optimal unitary dilation for bosonic Gaussian channels. PHYSICAL REVIEW A, vol. 84, pp. 022306-1-022306-9, ISSN:1050-2947 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

F. Caruso;N. Spagnolo;C. Vitelli;F. Sciarrino;M. B. Plenio (2011). Simulation of noise-assisted transport via optical cavity networks. PHYSICAL REVIEW A, vol. 83, pp. 013811-1-013811-6, ISSN:1050-2947 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

A. W. Chin;A. Datta;F. Caruso;S. F. Huelga;M. B. Plenio (2010). Noise-assisted energy transfer in quantum networks and light-harvesting complexes. NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS, vol. 12, pp. 065002-1-065002-16, ISSN:1367-2630 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

F. Caruso;A. W. Chin;A. Datta;S. F. Huelga;M. B. Plenio (2010). Entanglement and entangling power of the dynamics in light-harvesting complexes. PHYSICAL REVIEW A, vol. 81, pp. 062346-1-062346-8, ISSN:1050-2947 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

F. Caruso;S. F. Huelga;M. B. Plenio (2010). Noise-Enhanced Classical and Quantum Capacities in Communication Networks. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, vol. 105, pp. 190501-1-190501-4, ISSN:0031-9007 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

F. Caruso;V. Giovannetti;G. M. Palma (2010). Teleportation-Induced Correlated Quantum Channels. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, vol. 104, pp. 020503-1-020503-4, ISSN:0031-9007 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

F. Caruso;A. W. Chin;A. Datta;S. F. Huelga;M. B. Plenio (2009). Highly efficient energy excitation transfer in light-harvesting complexes: The fundamental role of noise-assisted transport. THE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, vol. 131, pp. 105106-1-105106-15, ISSN:0021-9606 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

F. Caruso;V. Giovannetti (2008). A new approach to characterize qubit channels. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUANTUM INFORMATION, vol. 6, pp. 621-626, ISSN:0219-7499 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

F. Caruso;V. Giovannetti;C. Macchiavello;M. B. Ruskai (2008). Qubit channels with small correlations. PHYSICAL REVIEW A, vol. 77, pp. 052323-1-052323-11, ISSN:1050-2947 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

F. Caruso;J. Eisert;V. Giovannetti;A. S. Holevo (2008). Multi-mode bosonic Gaussian channels. NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS, vol. 10, pp. 083030-1-083030-33, ISSN:1367-2630 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

F. Caruso;C. Tsallis (2008). Nonadditive entropy reconciles the area law in quantum systems with classical thermodynamics. PHYSICAL REVIEW E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS, vol. 78, pp. 021102-1-021102-6, ISSN:1539-3755 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

F. Caruso;A. Pluchino;V. Latora;A. Rapisarda;S. Vinciguerra (2007). Self-organized criticality and earthquakes. In: COMPLEXITY, METASTABILITY, AND NONEXTENSIVITY: An International Conference, 2007, Abe, S; Herrmann, H; Quarati, P; Rapisarda, A; Tsallis, C, vol. 965, pp. 281-284, ISBN:9780735404816 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

F. Caruso;V. Giovannetti (2007). Qubit quantum channels: A characteristic function approach. PHYSICAL REVIEW A, vol. 76, pp. 042331-1-042331-10, ISSN:1050-2947 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

F. Caruso;C. Tsallis (2007). Extensive nonadditive entropy in quantum spin chains. In: COMPLEXITY, METASTABILITY, AND NONEXTENSIVITY: An International Conference, 2007, Abe, S; Herrmann, H; Quarati, P; Rapisarda, A; Tsallis, C, vol. 965, pp. 51-59, ISBN:9780735404816 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

F. Caruso;J. Pluchino;V. Latora;S. Vinciguerra;A. Rapisarda (2007). Analysis of self-organized criticality in the Olami-Feder-Christensen model and in real earthquakes. PHYSICAL REVIEW E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS, vol. 75, pp. 055101-1-055101-4, ISSN:1539-3755 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

F. Caruso;V. Latora;A. Pluchino;A. Rapisarda;B. Tadic (2006). Olami-Feder-Christensen model on different networks. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. B, CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, vol. 50, pp. 243-247, ISSN:1434-6028 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

F. Caruso;S. Vinciguerra;V. Latora;A. Rapisarda;S. Malone (2006). Multifractal analysis of Mount St. Helens seismicity as a tool for identifying eruptive activity. FRACTALS-COMPLEX GEOMETRY PATTERNS AND SCALING IN NATURE AND SOCIETY, vol. 14, pp. 179-186, ISSN:0218-348X DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

F. Caruso;V. Giovannetti;A. S. Holevo (2006). One-mode bosonic Gaussian channels: a full weak-degradability classification. NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS, vol. 8, pp. 310-1-310-18, ISSN:1367-2630 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

F. Caruso;V. Giovannetti (2006). Degradability of Bosonic Gaussian channels. PHYSICAL REVIEW A, vol. 74, pp. 062307-1-062307-6, ISSN:1050-2947 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

F. Caruso;V. Latora;A. Rapisarda;B. Tadic (2005). The Olami-Feder-Christensen model on a small-world topology. In: 31st Workshop of the International-School-of-Solid-State-Physics, 2005, Beck, C; Benedek, G; Rapisarda, A; Tsallis, C, vol. 26, pp. 355-360, ISBN:9812565256 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

F. Caruso; I. Herrera; S. Bartalini; F. S. Cataliotti (2005). Slow light amplification in a non-inverted gain medium. EUROPHYSICS LETTERS, vol. 69, pp. 938-944, ISSN:0295-5075 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

F. Caruso;P. Castorina (2005). Opinion dynamics and decision of vote in bipolar political systems. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS C, vol. 16, pp. 1473-1487, ISSN:0129-1831 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

F. Caruso;H. Bechmann-Pasquinucci;C. Macchiavello (2005). Robustness of a quantum key distribution with two and three mutually unbiased bases. PHYSICAL REVIEW A, vol. 72, pp. 032340-1-032340-8, ISSN:1050-2947 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Filippo CARUSO

Curriculum

WORK EXPERIENCE

from 2018 to today	Associate Professor Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Florence - Member of Academic Board of the PhD in Atomic and Molecular Photonics, LENS - Member of university committee for ANVUR VQR 2015-2019 - Member of committee for renewal of postdoc and research grants
from 2015 to 2018	RTD-B Researcher Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Florence - Member of university committee for ANVUR VQR 2011-2014
from 2012 to 2015	RTD-A Researcher (as FIRB-MIUR coordinator) Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Florence
from 2011 to 2012	Postdoctoral Researcher (as EU Marie-Curie CIG Research Fellow) European Laboratory of Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Florence
from 2009 to 2011	Postdoctoral Researcher (as EU Marie-Curie IEF Research Fellow) Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Ulm (Germany)
from 2008 to 2009	Postdoctoral Researcher in Quantum Information Theory Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Imperial College London (UK)

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

from 2005 to 2008

Thesis title: Quantum Information transfer over Quantum Channels

Final mark: 70/70 cum laude.

from 2000 to 2005

Masters Degree in Physics, Physics Department, University of Catania

Thesis title: Optimal Eavesdropping in Quantum Cryptography

Final mark: 110/110 cum laude. GPA: 30/30 cum laude (in all exams).

from 2000 to 2005

Diploma of Licenza, Scuola Superiore of Catania (Univ. School of Excellence for Higher Education). Title: Storing Quantum Information via Atomic Dark Resonances.

Final mark: 70/70 cum laude. GPA: 30/30 cum laude.

Research- expertise

Research interests in quantum Information science, quantum technologies, quantum machine learning, open quantum systems, decoherence, optimal control theory, entanglement, quantum networks, quantum effects in atomic and molecular systems, quantum transport phenomena, quantum measurements, noise correlations, quantum random walks, quantum optics and communication, complex (even biological) quantum systems.
Since 2004 participation to more than 90 international conferences & research visits around the world, including more than 60oral presentations and more than 40 invited talks.
Own research achievements have been also cited and highlighted, among others, in Nature group journals, as in Nat.Phys. 6, 402-403 (2010), Nat. Phys. 8, 285-91 (2012), Nat. Phys. 8, 562-567 (2012), Nat. Phys. 9, 10-18 (2013), Nat.Phys. 9, 113-118 (2013), Nat. Phot. 8, 796-800 (2014), and in the book "Quantum Effects in Biology" (Cambridge Univ.Press).
Selected and nominated by the European Commission for participation in the 66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting2016 in Physics, where around 200 highly-talented young scientists from all over the world (after highly competitivemulti-step selection) meet and discuss informally for one week with more than 30 Nobel Laureates in Physics(www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/meetings/2016).

Awards

2015 Physics Award, Accademia dei Lincei, Roma, with the President of the Italian Republic (Sergio Mattarella).
2006 Award as the best young researcher in Physics by Italian Physical Society.
2006 Ettore Majorana Award as the best young researcher in Theoretical Physics (Majorana's birth centennial) by Rotary International.

Conference organization

Single Chair Organizer of the Italian Quantum Information Science Conference IQIS2017 in Florence, 11-15 September 2017: around 200 participants, 30 invited speakers, 10 tutorial lectures, and 150 contributions.
Single Chair Organizer of the International Conference on Quantum Effects in Biological Systems, QuEBS2015. It has been organized earlier by very prestigious institutions, as Harvard and UC Berkeley, and has been for the first time in Italy, June 29-July 2, 2015, in the Hall of the Five Hundreds in Palazzo Vecchio and in Villa Bardini, Florence: 150 participants, 25 invited speakers and around 70 contributions (quebs2015.weebly.com).
Single Organizer of the International Meeting on Quantum Transport in Light-Harvesting Bio-Nanostructures, at Phys. Dept. of Florence Univ., March 2013, Florence, Italy. Around 80 participants and 6 invited speakers.
Local Organizer of the Workshop QuEBS 2011, with around 100 participants, August 2011, Ulm, Germany.