Francesco Anna Mele
francescoannamele.bsky.social
Francesco Anna Mele
@francescoannamele.bsky.social
Quantum Information PhD student at Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (Italy)
So excited that my coauthors and I have three papers accepted at QIP this year!

- Optimising quantum data hiding arxiv.org/abs/2510.03538

- Efficient learning of CV Gaussian unitaries arxiv.org/abs/2510.05531

- Is it Gaussian? Testing CV Gaussian states arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07305
Optimising quantum data hiding
Quantum data hiding is the existence of pairs of bipartite quantum states that are (almost) perfectly distinguishable with global measurements, yet close to indistinguishable when only measurements im...
arxiv.org
November 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Reposted by Francesco Anna Mele
The only thing that could possibly be hotter than Italian twins explaining entanglement in Italian is Italian triplets explaining the GHZ state.
November 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Happy to share our TEDx talk where me and my twin @antonioannamele.bsky.social chat about quantum technologies!

(Italian only)

youtu.be/yzXUsDUPt8A?...
Quantum Computer: una possibile rivoluzione | Francesco Anna Mele & Antonio Anna Mele | TEDxPolicoro
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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November 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Honoured to have received the Boeing Quantum Creators Prize at the Chicago Quantum Exchange event today!

This prize recognises early-career researchers who advance quantum information in new directions
November 5, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Okay, last post on *quantum learning theory with CV systems* (for a few months🫣)

Today's new work tackles another natural and central question in this rapidly developing field: Given an unknown CV state, how to test whether is it Gaussian or not?

arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07305

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October 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
The saga of *quantum learning theory with CV systems* never ends!

And indeed, when you look closely at this field, many natural and promising questions arise. For instance:
How to learn CV Gaussian unitaries?

arxiv.org/pdf/2510.05531

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October 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
New work on *quantum data hiding*! If you have a quirk for semidefinite/linear programming as an analytical tool for quantum info, this paper might interest you

arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03538

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October 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Excited and honored to be selected as a winner of the Boeing Quantum Creators Prize 🥳

This international award recognizes early-career researchers who are advancing quantum information science and engineering in new directions!

🔗 chicagoquantum.org/2025BQCP
September 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
So honored to receive the award for new talented physicists from the Italian Physical Society🥳

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September 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
My website is now online!

🔗 sites.google.com/sns.it/franc...

I’ll try to keep it updated with my research work.
Francesco Anna Mele
ABOUT ME
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September 19, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I’d like to advertise two cute technical results of today’s paper that may be of independent interest (I hope):

A new decomposition of Gaussian unitaries and new bosonic trace distance bounds (the saga of bosonic trace distance bounds never ends! 😍)
arxiv.org/abs/2504.19319
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April 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
New bosonic paper out!

Take the covariance matrix of a pure state and count the number of symplectic eigenvalues that are strictly larger than one: this is a powerful non-Gaussian monotone — the *symplectic rank*

arxiv.org/abs/2504.19319
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April 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
New paper out today on "Q Thermo with CV systems"!

What is the maximum energy that you can extract from a quantum state via Gaussian unitaries only?
We solve this problem by establishing a simple, cute formula for the *Gaussian ergotropy*.

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arxiv.org/abs/2503.21748
March 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
New paper out!


We study one-shot q communication over reasonable non-Markovian lossy Gaussian channels. To do so, we prove error bounds on the convergence rate of the *powerful* Avram-Parter's (and Szego's) theorem, which may be of independent interest in matrix analysis.
arxiv.org/abs/2503.13207
Non-asymptotic quantum communication on lossy transmission lines with memory
Non-asymptotic quantum Shannon theory analyses how to transmit quantum information across a quantum channel as efficiently as possible within a specified error tolerance, given access to a finite, fix...
arxiv.org
March 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Our paper on Computable Entanglement Cost has finally been published in PRL. Take a look!

journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

@physicists, when you compute the famous *logarithmic negativity*, you should compute our quantity instead!

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March 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM