Home Page of Adam Miranowicz

"If doing mathematics or science is looked upon as a game, then one might say that
in mathematics you compete against yourself or other mathematicians;
in physics your adversary is nature and the stakes are higher."

"Jeśli zajmowanie się matematyką lub nauką potraktować jako grę, to można powiedzieć, że
w matematyce konkuruje się ze sobą lub innymi matematykami,
a w fizyce przeciwnikiem jest przyroda i [dlatego] stawka jest wyższa."

[Mark Kac, "Enigmas of chance"]

Affiliation

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Quantum Information Department, Institute of Spintronics and Quantum Information, Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU),, Poznań, Poland

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Prof. zw. dr hab. Adam Miranowicz,
Zakład Optyki Nieliniowej, Wydział Fizyki,
Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza,
ul. Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 2, 61-614 Poznań, Poland

Room: 284/G2

E-mail: miran@amu.edu.pl

Research profiles

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ResearchPortal (Omega PsiR, Baza Wiedzy UAM)

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Polska Bibliografia Naukowa (PBN, Polish Scientific Bibliography)

Scientific ancestry

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I consider an honor to acknowledge here my great teachers (listed chronologically):

Prof. Stanisław Kielich: - a laureate of the Smoluchowski Medal (Medal Mariana Smoluchowskiego) in 1993 [click here to read some of papers by Prof. Kielich]
Prof. Ryszard Tanaś: - a laureate of the Rubinowicz Award in 2005
Prof. Stephen Mark Barnett: - a laureate of the Maxwell Medal in 1994

Research interests

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I have been doing research in the following interrelated research fields: quantum optics, quantum information (including linear-optical quantum information processing), cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED), circuit QED (with superconducting quantum circuits), microwave photonics, quantum cryptography, quantum dissipative engineering, non-Hermitian quantum mechanics, classical nonlinear optics, quantum optomechanics, NMR spectroscopy, and nanoscience (with quantum dots and quantum wells). I am a theoretician, but I closely collaborate with experimentalists on linear quantum optics and NMR spectroscopy. In particular, I studied: fundamental tests of quantum mechanics, quantum-to-classical transitions, optical and solid-state implementations of quantum gates, quantum entanglement, quantum nonlocality (via Bell inequalities), detection of nonclassicality of optical fields, generation of Schrödinger cat states, generation of nonclassical light, photon antibunching, cavity light squeezing, spin squeezing, photon and phonon blockade effects, exceptional points, coherence and decoherence control, quantum cloning, quantum phase problem, Raman scattering, and paradoxes of quantum physics. More specifically:

Quantum state engineering with light and atoms: Generation and manipulation of the states of light interacting with natural and artificial atoms, including quantum dots, superconducting qubits in optical, superconducting and nanomechanical resonators. Quantum state and process tomography. Photon and phonon blockades (optical-state truncation methods). Conditional photon-count measurements.
Nanoscience: Entangled networks of quantum dots in microcavities. Quantum operations (including quantum gates and tomography) of semiconductor quantum wells using NMR methods. Quantum limits of nanomechanical resonators. Hybrid nanosystems.
Quantum information processing and quantum cryptography: Solid-state implementations of quantum computers and cryptosystems based on quantum dots and cavity QED. Teleportation protocols.
Nonclassical light: Generation of quantum light with the reduced quantum noise (sub-Poissonian, antibunched and squeezed light). Generation of quantum superpositions of macroscopically distinct states (Schrödinger cats and kittens). Interaction of quantum-optical fields with nonlinear media. Photon statistics. Photon blockade and phonon blockade.
Quantum entanglement and nonlocality: Criteria, measures, and paradoxes of quantum entanglement and Bell nonlocality for two-qubit systems. Spatial and temporal quantum steering.
Phase problem, coherence, and decoherence: Quantum phase properties of nonlinear optical phenomena within various approaches, including the Pegg-Barnett, Garrison-Wong and phase-space formalisms. Coherence control. Systems preserving or enhancing coherence.
Quantum mechanics in finite dimensions: Generalized harmonic-oscillator states in finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces. Analysis of their properties and possibilities of generation.
Quantum vs classical descriptions of nonclassical phenomena: General criteria and measures of nonclassical fields: Glauber-Sudarshan quasidistribution; nonclassical depth, volume, and distance; a unified description of nonclassicality and entanglement. Classical trajectories.
Raman scattering: Theoretical approach to quantum-statistical theories of Raman scattering processes within standing-wave models.
Non-Hermitian quantum mechanics: General formalism and paradoxes. No-go theorems. Hermitization of Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians via the Vielbein formalism. Einstein's quantum elevator. PT-symmetric systems. Exceptional points.

[in Polish] Prowadzę badania w zakresie: optyki kwantowej, informacji kwantowej (w tym liniowo-optycznego kwantowego przetwarzania informacji), elektrodynamiki kwantowej (QED) rezonatorów i obwodów elektrycznych, fotoniki mikrofalowej, kryptografii kwantowej, kwantowej inżynierii dyssypacyjnej, niehermitowskiej mechaniki kwantowej, klasycznej optyki nieliniowej, kwantowej optomechaniki, spektroskopii NMR oraz nanonauki (w oparciu o kropki kwantowe i studnie kwantowe). Prace moje obejmują: fundamentalne badania mechaniki kwantowej, przejście ze świata kwantowego do klasycznego, optyczne i półprzewodnikowe implementacje bramek kwantowych, splątanie kwantowe, nielokalność kwantową (w oparciu o nierówności Bella), detekcję nieklasyczności pól optycznych, generację stanów kota Schrödingera, generację nieklasycznego światła, antygrupowanie fotonów, ściskanie światła we wnękach, ściskanie spinowe, blokady fotonów i fononów, punkty wyjątkowe, kontrolę koherencji i dekoherencji, klonowanie kwantowe, problem fazy kwantowej, rozpraszanie Ramana, paradoksy fizyki kwantowej itp.

Publications

Experiments of other groups validating our theories

Collaborative experiments with other groups validating our theories

Research trips and stays

Lectures, talks, and posters

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I have given about 115 lectures and talks at foreign universities and institutes including: University of Rostock (Germany) (one semester course on quantum information), Oxford University (UK), Cambridge University (UK), Imperial College in London, Aalborg University (Denmark), the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna (Russia), Palacky University in Olomouc (Czech Republic), Malaya University in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Bilkent University in Ankara (Turkey), University of Turku (Finland), Institute Henri Poincaré in Paris (France), Fudan University in Shanghai (China), Basque Country University in Bilbao (Spain), and National Cheng Kung University in Tainan (Taiwan). Moreover, in Japan: Tokyo University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kyoto University, Osaka University, Osaka Kansai University, Osaka National Research Institute, Niigata University, Chuo University, Tokushima Bunri University, Kochi University, Kochi University of Technology, NTT Basic Research Labs in Atsugi, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies in Tsukuba, Communication Research Labs in Tokyo, SOKEN-DAI University in Hayama, Shibaura Institute of Technology in Omiya, and Institute for Physical and Chemical Research RIKEN in Wako-shi (Saitama).

Memberships

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Memberships in Physical Societies, Editorial Boards, and Scientific Networks

The Polish Physical Society
The American Physical Society
The American Nano Society
Oxbridge Society of Poland
Editorial Board of Frontiers
Editorial Board of Advances in Applied Physics
Editorial Board of Quantum Physics Letters
Scientific Committee of the National Center for Quantum Information Science (KCIK) in Gdańsk, Poland.
Polish Quantum Initiative (Polska Inicjatywa Kwantowa) - consortium of eight leading research centers in Poland conducting research in the field of broadly defined quantum technologies and quantum computing. The signatories of this initiative (consortium) are: University of Warsaw University, University of Gdańsk, Centre for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Nicholas Copernicus University in University of Toruń, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Wrocław University of Technology, and the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Refereeing record

(1) Evaluation of grant proposals.

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Evaluation of grant proposals for the following agencies:

European Research Council (ERC): a member of an ERC Advanced Grant panel;
Polish National Science Centre (Narodowe Centrum Nauki), Kraków; I was reviewing proposals for the ST2 panel, which includes basic components of matter: elementary particle physics, nuclear physics, as well as plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics. (I was a member of an expert panel);
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - German Research Foundation, Bonn;
A*STAR Central Research Fund, Science and Engineering Research Council, Singapore;
FWF Austrian Science Fund, Vienna;
FONDECYT, National Research Funding Competition, Chile;
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

(2) Proposals and evaluations of award nominees.

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At the invitation of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, I submitted nominations for candidates for the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018 and 2021.
Served as a reviewer for two candidates for the MacArthur Fellowship (commonly known as the Genius Grant) in 2018 and 2019.
Member of the selection committee of the National Center for Quantum Information Science (KCIK) in Gdańsk, responsible for awarding the best undergraduate thesis in quantum information (2021).

(3) Peer reviewer for articles submitted to ca. 150 journals.

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(1) Academia Quantum,
(2) ACS Nano,
(3) Acta Physica Polonica (APP),
(4) Advanced Photonics Research (APR),
(5) Advanced Physics Research (APR),
(6) Advanced Quantum Technologies (AQT),
(7) Advanced Theory and Simulations (ATS),
(8) Advances in Astronomy,
(9) Advances in Mathematical Physics (AMP),
(10) Advances in Nonlinear Optics (ANO),
(11) Advances in Physics: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Particle Physics (APAPP),
(12) Alexandria Engineering Journal (AEJ),
(13) Algorithms,
(14) Annalen der Physik (AdP),
(15) Annals of Mathematics and Physics (AMAP),
(16) Annals of Physics (AP),
(17) Applied Materials Today (AMT),
(18) Applied Physics Letters (APL),
(19) Applied Sciences,
(20) AppliedMath,
(21) Axioms,
(22) Bioengineering,
(23) Biosystems,
(24) Canadian Journal of Physics (CJP),
(25) Central European Journal of Physics (CEJP),
(26) Chaos, Solitons & Fractals (CSF),
(27) Chemosensors,
(28) Chinese Journal of Physics (CJP),
(29) Chinese Optics Letters (COL),
(30) Chinese Physics B (CPB),
(31) Classical and Quantum Gravity (CQG),
(32) Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (CNSNS),
(33) Communications Physics (CP),
(34) Communications in Theoretical Physics (CTP,
(35) Computation,
(36) Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal,
(37) Computer Communications,
(38) Computers and Industrial Engineering (CIE),
(39) Cryptography,
(40) Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra (EJLA),
(41) Electronics,
(42) Electronics Letters,
(43) Entropy,
(44) EPJ Quantum Technology,
(45) European Physical Journal B (EPJB),
(46) European Physical Journal D (EPJD),
(47) European Physical Journal Plus (EPJ Plus),
(48) Europhysics Letters (EPL),
(49) Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics (FAMS),
(50) Frontiers in Physics,
(51) Frontiers in Psychology,
(52) IEEE Transactions on Computers,
(53) IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering,
(54) IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications,
(55) IET Quantum Communication,
(56) Indian Journal of Physics D (INJP-D),
(56) International Journal for Light and Electron Optics,
(58) International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science (AMCS),
(59) International Journal of Applied Nonlinear Science (IJANS),
(60) International Journal of Engineering Mathematics and Physics (IJEMAPS),
(61) International Journal of Optics,
(62) International Journal of Quantum Information,
(63) International Journal of Theoretical Physics,
(64) International Laser Physics Journal,
(65) iScience,
(66) Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics (JAMP),
(67) Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy,
(68) Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications (JEWA),
(69) Journal of Modern Optics,
(70) Journal of Modern Physics,
(71) Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids,
(72) Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics,
(73) Journal of Optical Society of America B,
(74) Journal of Optics,
(75) Journal of Optics B: Quantum Semiclassical Optics,
(76) Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General,
(77) Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics,
(78) Journal of Physics Communications,
(79) Journal of Physics Conf. Ser.,
(80) Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics,
(81) Journal of Quantum Information Science (JQIS),
(82) Journal of Quantum Electronics (IEEE),
(83) Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology,
(84) Journal of Vibration and Control,
(85) Laser & Photonics Reviews,
(86) Light: Science Applications,
(87) Machine Learning: Science and Technology,
(88) Magnetochemistry,
(89) Mathematics,
(90) Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences,
(91) Mathematical Problems in Engineering,
(92) Micromachines,
(93) Modern Physics Letters A,
(94) Modern Physics Letters B,
(95) Nanomaterials,
(96) Nanophotonics,
(97) Nature Communications,
(98) Nature Photonics,
(99) Nature Physics,
(100) New Journal of Physics,
(101) Nonlinear Science,
(102) npj Quantum Information,
(103) Open Access Library Journal,
(104) Open Physics Journal,
(105) Open Systems & Information Dynamics,
(106) Optica,
(107) Optica Applicata,
(108) Optica Quantum,
(109) Optical and Quantum Electronics,
(110) Optical Review,
(111) Optics and Laser Technology,
(112) Optics Communications,
(113) Optics Express,
(114) Optics Letters,
(115) Optik - International Journal for Light and Electron Optics,
(116) Photonics,
(117) Photonics Research,
(118) Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications,
(119) Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures,
(120) Physica Scripta,
(121) Physica Status Solidi B: Basic Solid State Physics (PSSB),
(122) Physical Review A,
(123) Physical Review B,
(124) Physical Review E,
(125) Physical Review X,
(126) Physical Review Applied,
(127) Physical Review Letters,
(128) Physical Review Research,
(129) Physics Letters A,
(130) Physics Open,
(131) Physics Research International,
(132) Precision Instrument and Mechanology,
(133) Proceedings of the Royal Society, part A (RSPA),
(134) Quantum,
(135) Quantum Information Processing,
(136) Quantum Reports,
(137) Quantum Science and Technology,
(138) Quantum Studies: Mathematics and Foundations,
(139) Reports on Mathematical Physics,
(140) Reports on Progress in Physics (ROPP),
(141) Results in Physics D (RINP-D),
(142) Reviews in Physics,
(143) Science Advances,
(144) Science China: Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy,
(145) Scientific Reports,
(146) SciPost,
(147) Sensors and Actuators: A. Physical,
(148) Spectroscopy Letters,
(149) SPIE Proceedings,
(150) Symmetry,
(151) Ukrainian Journal of Physics.

(4) Thesis reviews and related academic evaluations

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Report for a professorship appointment at Copernicus University in Toruń
Report for a professorship appointment at the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Reports on two habilitation theses at the University of Gdańsk
Report on a habilitation thesis at Poznań University of Technology
Report on a habilitation thesis at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
Chair of three habilitation procedure committees at the University of Gdańsk
Reports on four doctoral theses at the University of Warsaw
Reports on two doctoral theses at the University of Rostock, Germany
Report on a doctoral thesis at the University of Messina, Italy
Report on a doctoral thesis at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India
Report on a doctoral thesis at Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Report on a doctoral thesis at Copernicus University in Toruń
Report on a doctoral thesis at the University of Zielona Góra
Member of habilitation procedure committees at the University of Warsaw and the University of Rzeszów

Organizational experience in conferences and academic workshops

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Member of the Scientific Committee of Quantum Optics XI, September 2025, Kraków, Poland.
Member of the Scientific Committee of 23. Slovak-Czech-Polish Optical Conference on "Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics" in Štrbské Pleso, High Tatras, Slovakia, September 2-6, 2024.
Main organizer of the Sixth Poznań Symposium on Quantum Information and Quantum Technologies (QIQTec 2024), Poznań, 10-13 May, 2024
Member of the Scientific Committee of Quantum Optics X, 5-11 September 2021 in Toruń, Poland.
Member of the Organizing Committee of the Fifth Poznań Symposium on "Quantum Technologies, Nonlinear Optics, Magnonics, and Metamaterials" (QuTecNOMM 2019), Poznań, Poland 15.10-15.11.2019.
Member of the Organizing Committee of the World Congress On Lasers, Optics And Photonics (Optics-2019) in Barcelona, Spain, September 23-25, 2019.
Member of the Organizing Committee of the Fourth Poznań Symposium on "Quantum Technologies, Nonlinear Optics, Magnonics, and Metamaterials" (QuTecNOMM 2018), Poznań, Poland 28.10-6.12.2018.
Member of the Scientific Committee of 21st Czech-Polish-Slovak Optical Conference on "Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics" in Lednice, Czech Republic, September 3-7, 2018.
Member of the Programme Committee of the 44 Congress of Polish Physical Society in Wrocław, Poland, September 10-15, 2017.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the 20th Slovak-Czech-Polish Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics in Jasna in Slovakia, September 5-9, 2016.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the 19th Polish-Slovak-Czech Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics in Wojanow Palace in Poland, September, 8-12, 2014.
Co-organizer of the Third Poznań Symposium on Quantum Engineering, Information, and Nonlinear Optics (QEINO 2013), Poznań, Poland, October 15-17, 2013.
Member of the Program Advisory Committee of the International Workshop on Optical Quantum Information (A satellite meeting of AQIS'13), Department of Physics and Materials Science and Engineering Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India, September 1-2, 2013.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Workshop on "Current Problems in Physics", Zielona Góra-Lviv, September 23-25, 2013.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the 18th Czech-Polish-Slovak Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics in Ostravice in Czech Republic, September 3-7, 2012.
Co-organizer of the Second Poznan Workshop on Quantum Engineering, Quantum Information, and Semi-Quantum Biology (QEIB 2012), Poznań, Poland, October 16-18, 2012.
Main organizer of the First Japanese-Polish Workshop on Quantum Entanglement and Quantum Computing, Poznań, Poland, September 26, 2008.
Member of the Organizing Committee of the International Seminar on Nonlinear and Quantum Optics in Poznań, Poland, May 23-25, 1995.

My students

Selected lecture notes

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Lecture notes on quantum information and quantum computation
Wybrane materiały do wykładów z kryptografii
Wybrane materiały do wykładów z optyki kwantowej

Recent awards

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2019: The Rubinowicz Scientific Award of the Polish Physical Society in 2019 "for the development of new theoretical and experimental methods of generation, control, and detection of quantum states of single photons." ("za opracowanie nowych teoretycznych i doświadczalnych metod generacji, kontroli i detekcji stanów kwantowych pojedynczych fotonów.")
2020: Grant Maestro of the Polish National Science Centre (NCN) (2020-2026).
2022: Prime Minister Award "for pioneering scientific research results on the foundations of quantum technologies" ("za pionierskie wyniki badań naukowych nad podstawami technologii kwantowych").

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