Publications by Vincenzo Savona

Observation of first- and second-order dissipative phase transitions in a two-photon driven Kerr resonator

Vincenzo Savona, Pasquale Scarlino, Fabrizio Minganti, Simone Frasca, Guillaume Beaulieu

In open quantum systems, dissipative phase transitions (DPTs) emerge from the interplay between unitary evolution, drive, and dissipation. While second-order DPTs have been predominantly investigated theoretically, first-order DPTs have been observed in si ...

2025

Neural Projected Quantum Dynamics: a systematic study

Vincenzo Savona, Luca Gravina

We investigate the challenge of classical simulation of unitary quantum dynamics with variational Monte Carlo approaches, addressing the instabilities and high computational demands of existing methods. By systematically analyzing the convergence of stocha ...

Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften2025

Landau–Zener without a qubit: multiphoton sidebands interaction and signatures of dissipative quantum chaos

Vincenzo Savona, Pasquale Scarlino, Fabrizio Minganti, Marco Scigliuzzo, Vincent Jean Yves Jouanny

Landau–Zener–Stückelberg–Majorana (LZSM) interference occurs when qubit parameters are periodically modulated across avoided level crossings. We explore this phenomenon in nonlinear multilevel bosonic systems, where interference is influenced by multiple e ...

2025

Dissipative quantum chaos unveiled by stochastic quantum trajectories

Vincenzo Savona, Pasquale Scarlino, Fabrizio Minganti, Luca Gravina, Debbie Eeltink

We define quantum chaos and integrability in open quantum many-body systems as a dynamical property of single stochastic realizations, referred to as quantum trajectories. This definition relies on the predictions of random matrix theory applied to the sub ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2025

Low-Rank Variational Quantum Algorithm for the Dynamics of Open Quantum Systems

Vincenzo Savona

The simulation of many-body open quantum systems is key to solving numerous outstanding problems in physics, chemistry, material science, and in the development of quantum technologies. Near-term quantum computers may bring considerable advantage for the e ...

2025

Phonon pumping by modulating the ultrastrong vacuum

Vincenzo Savona, Fabrizio Minganti, Marco Scigliuzzo

The vacuum (i.e., the ground state) of a system in ultrastrong light-matter coupling contains particles that cannot be emitted without any dynamical perturbation and is thus called virtual. We propose a protocol for inducing and observing real mechanical e ...

2024

Adaptive variational low-rank dynamics for open quantum systems

Vincenzo Savona, Luca Gravina

We introduce a model-independent method for the efficient simulation of low-entropy systems, whose dynamics can be accurately described with a limited number of states. Our method leverages the time-dependent variational principle to efficiently integrate ...

Amer Physical Soc2024

Critical Schrodinger Cat Qubit

Vincenzo Savona, Fabrizio Minganti, Luca Gravina

Encoding quantum information onto bosonic systems is a promising route to quantum error correc-tion. In a cat code, this encoding relies on the confinement of the dynamics of the system onto the two-dimensional manifold spanned by Schrodinger cats of oppos ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Dissipative phase transitions in n-photon driven quantum nonlinear resonators

Vincenzo Savona, Fabrizio Minganti

We investigate and characterize the emergence of finite-component dissipative phase transitions (DPTs) in nonlinear photon resonators subject to n-photon driving and dissipation. Exploiting a semiclassical approach, we derive general results on the occurre ...

Verein Forderung Open Access Publizierens Quantenwissenschaf2023

Quantum error correction using squeezed Schrodinger cat states

Vincenzo Savona, Fabrizio Minganti, David Schlegel

Bosonic quantum codes redundantly encode quantum information in the states of a quantum harmonic oscillator, making it possible to detect and correct errors. Schrodinger cat codes-based on the superposition of two coherent states with opposite displacement ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022