Yasser Omar
Group Coordinator
Office: Mathematics Building, 3.03 Extension: 10 91 Direct line: +351-21-841 70 91 Address: see Contact page. Twitter: @YasserOmar_ LinkedIn: Yasser-Omar-Quantum E-mail: 
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Current positions
Group coordinator, Physics of Information and Quantum Technologies Group, PQI – Portuguese Quantum Institute and CeFEMA/LAPMET
Associate Professor, Logic and Computation Unit, Department of Mathematics, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon
President, PQI – Portuguese Quantum Institute
Corresponding Member, Academia das Ciências de Lisboa
Co-Founder of the World Quantum Day – 14 April
Co-Founder of EQSI – European Quantum Software Institute
Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of the CERN Quantum Technology Initiative
Associate Professor, Logic and Computation Unit, Department of Mathematics, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon
President, PQI – Portuguese Quantum Institute
Corresponding Member, Academia das Ciências de Lisboa
Co-Founder of the World Quantum Day – 14 April
Co-Founder of EQSI – European Quantum Software Institute
Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of the CERN Quantum Technology Initiative
Education
Ph.D. in Physics, Centre for Quantum Computation, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, 2003
Physics Degree [Licenciatura em Engenharia Física Tecnológica], Instituto Superior Técnico, 1998
Physics Degree [Licenciatura em Engenharia Física Tecnológica], Instituto Superior Técnico, 1998
Teaching
Director, Doctoral Programme in the Physics and Mathematics of Information, IST, University of Lisbon
Coordinator, Minor in Quantum Science and Technologies, IST, University of Lisbon
Introduction to Quantum Information and Computation
Quantum Information Technologies: 2015 edition (videos), 2014 edition (videos).
Physics of Classical and Quantum Information.
Coordinator, Minor in Quantum Science and Technologies, IST, University of Lisbon
Introduction to Quantum Information and Computation
Quantum Information Technologies: 2015 edition (videos), 2014 edition (videos).
Physics of Classical and Quantum Information.
Recent interviews
- Interview to Physics World podcast, by Hamish Johnston, about the creation of the World Quantum Day: here, starting at 18’21”.
- Interview by two actors, in the context of the show Indagações de Alice at Centro Cultural de Belém:
Part 1 – Reality: here.
Part 2 – Time: here. - Explaining quantum physics and quantum technologies on the Portuguese public TV channel RTP: here.
- Work at the QuTe Lab – Quantum Technologies Laboratory on free-space quantum communication featured in TV channel SIC: here.
For additional coverage, see the Group's News.
Recent recorded talks
Publications
Books
M. Mohseni, Y. Omar, G. Engel, M. Plenio, Quantum Effects in Biology, Cambridge University Press (2014).
Also available from Amazon and other e-vendors.
Articles
Papers in the pre-print archive: quant-ph.
L. Bugalho, B. C. Coutinho, F. A. Monteiro Y. Omar, Distributing Multipartite Entanglement over Noisy Quantum Networks, Quantum 7, 920 (2023). Get PDF
D. Magano, L. Buffoni, Y. Omar, Quantum density peak clustering, Quantum Machine Intelligence 5, 9 (2023). Get PDF
S. Santos, F. A. Monteiro, B. C. Coutinho, Y. Omar, Shortest Path Finding in Quantum Networks With Quasi-linear Complexity, IEEE Access 11, 7180-7194 (2023). Get PDF
R. Santos, L. Buffoni, Y. Omar, A path towards distributed quantum annealing, arXiv:2212.02465 (2022). Get PDF
L. Bugalho, E. Z. Cruzeiro, K. C. Chen, W. Dai, D. Englund, Y. Omar, Resource-efficient simulation of noisy quantum circuits and application to network-enabled QRAM optimization, arXiv:2210.13494 (2022). Get PDF
S. Pratapsi, P. H. Huber, P. Barthel, S. Bose, C. Wunderlich, Y. Omar, Classical Half-Adder using Trapped-ion Quantum Bits: Towards Energy-efficient Computation, arXiv:2210.10470 (2022). Get PDF
F. Silva, P. Carvalho, L. Ferreira, Y. Omar, A QUBO Formulation for Minimum Loss Network Reconfiguration, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 1-13 (2022). Get PDF
M. Casariego, Y. Omar, M. Sanz, Bi-frequency illumination: a quantum-enhanced protocol, Advanced Quantum Technologies (2022). Get PDF
L. Buffoni, S. Gherardini, E. Z. Cruzeiro, Y. Omar, Third law of thermodynamics and the scaling of quantum computers, Physical Review Letters 129, 150602 (2022). Get PDF
T. Gonzalez-Raya, M. Casariego, F. Fesquet, M. Renger, V. Salari, M. Möttönen, Y. Omar, F. Deppe, K. G. Fedorov, M. Sanz, Open-Air Microwave Entanglement Distribution for Quantum Teleportation, Physical Review Applied 18, 044002 (2022). Get PDF
G. M. Quinta, A. Sousa, Y. Omar, Predicting leptonic CP violation via minimization of neutrino entanglement, arXiv:2207.03303 (2022). Get PDF
J. P. Moutinho, M. Pezzutto, S. Pratapsi, F. F. Silva, S. Franceschi, S. Bose, A. T. Costa, Y. Omar, Quantum dynamics for energetic advantage in a charge-based classical full-adder, arXiv:2206.14241 (2022). Get PDF
B. C. Coutinho, W. J. Munro, K. Nemoto, Y. Omar, Robustness of Noisy Quantum Networks, Communications Physics 5, 105 (2022). Get PDF
D. Magano, A. Kumar, M. Kālis, A. Locāns, A. Glos, S. Pratapsi, G. Quinta, M. Dimitrijevs, A. Rivošs, P. Bargassa, J. Seixas, A. Ambainis, Y. Omar, Quantum speedup for track reconstruction in particle accelerators, Physical Review D 105, 076012 (2022). Get PDF – Watch the QuantHEP Seminar about this article.
A. Delgado, K. E. Hamilton, P. Date, J. Vlimant, D. Magano, Y. Omar, P. Bargassa, A. Francis, A. Gianelle, L. Sestini, D. Lucchesi, D. Zuliani, D. Nicotra, J. Vries, D. Dibenedetto, M. L. Martinez, E. Rodrigues, C. V. Sierra, S. Vallecorsa, J. Thaler, C. Bravo-Prieto, S. Y. Chang, J. Lazar, C. A. Argüelles, Quantum Computing for Data Analysis in High-Energy Physics, arXiv:2203.08805 (2022). Get PDF
F. Silva, P. Carvalho, L. Ferreira, Y. Omar, A QUBO Formulation for Minimum Loss Spanning Tree Reconfiguration Problems in Electric Power Networks, arXiv (2022). Get PDF
T. Gonzalez-Raya, M. Casariego, F. Fesquet, M. Renger, V. Salari, M. Möttönen, Y. Omar, F. Deppe, K. G. Fedorov, M. Sanz, Open-Air Microwave Entanglement Distribution for Quantum Teleportation, arXiv:2203.07295 (2022). Get PDF
J. P. Moutinho, A. Melo, B. Coutinho, I. A. Kovács, Y. Omar, Quantum Link Prediction in Complex Networks, arXiv:2112.04768 (2021). Get PDF
F. Silva, P. Carvalho, L. Ferreira, Y. Omar, A QUBO Formulation for Minimum Loss Spanning Tree Reconfiguration Problems in Electric Power Networks, arXiv:2109.09659 (2021). Get PDF
L. Matias, F. Carrilho, V. Sá, R. Omira, M. Niehus, C. Corela, J. Barros, Y. Omar, The Contribution of Submarine Optical Fiber Telecom Cables to the Monitoring of Earthquakes and Tsunamis in the NE Atlantic, Frontiers in Earth Science 9, 686296 (2021). Get PDF
M. Gluza, J. Sabino, N. H. Y. Ng, G. Vitagliano, M. Pezzutto, Y. Omar, I. Mazets, M. Huber, J. Schmiedmayer, J. Eisert, Quantum field thermal machines, Physical Review X Quantum 2, 030310 (2021). Get PDF
R. Kaltenbaek, A. Acin, L. Bacsardi, P. Bianco, P. Bouyer, E. Diamanti, C. Marquardt, Y. Omar, V. Pruneri, E. Rasel, B. Sang, S. Seidel, H. Ulbricht, R. Ursin, P. Villoresi, M. van den Bossche, W. von Klitzing, H. Zbinden, M. Paternostro, A. Bassi, Quantum technologies in space, Experimental Astronomy (2021). Get PDF
N. F. Costa, Y. Omar, A. Sultanov, G. S. Paraoanu, Benchmarking machine learning algorithms for adaptive quantum phase estimation with noisy intermediate-scale quantum sensors, EPJ Quantum Technology 8, 16 (2021). Get PDF
L. Bugalho, B. C. Coutinho, Y. Omar, Distributing Multipartite Entanglement over Noisy Quantum Networks, arXiv:2103.14759 (2021). Get PDF
D. Pires, Y. Omar, J. Seixas, Adiabatic Quantum Algorithm for Multijet Clustering in High Energy Physics, arXiv:2012.14514 (2020). Get PDF
M. Casariego, Y. Omar, M. Sanz, Bi-frequency illumination: a quantum-enhanced protocol, arXiv:2010.15097 (2020). Get PDF
A.-K. Wu, L. Tian, B. C. Coutinho, Y. Omar, Y.-Y. Liu, Structural Vulnerability of Quantum Networks, Physical Review A 101, 052315 (2020). Get PDF
T. Osada, B. Coutinho, Y. Omar, K. Sanaka, W. J. Munro, K. Nemoto, Continuous-time quantum walk spatial search on the Bollobás scale-free network, Physical Review A 101, 022310 (2020). Get PDF
F. Silva, M. Sanz, J. Seixas, E. Solano, Y. Omar, Perceptrons from Memristors, Neural Networks 122, 273 (2019). Get PDF
B. Mera, K. Sacha, Y. Omar, Topologically protected quantization of work, Physical Review Letters 123, 020601 (2019). Get PDF - Synopsys in Physics
M. Pezzutto, M. Paternostro, Y. Omar, An out-of-equilibrium non-Markovian Quantum Heat Engine, Quantum Science and Technology 4, 025002 (2019). Get PDF
L. Novo, S. Chakraborty, M. Mohseni, Y. Omar, Environment-assisted analog quantum search, Physical Review A 98, 022316 (2018). Get PDF
M. H. Mohammady, H. Choi, M. E. Trusheim, A. Bayat, D. Englund, Y. Omar, A low-control and robust quantum refrigerator and applications with electronic spins in diamond, Physical Review A 97, 042124 (2018). Get PDF
S. Chakraborty, L. Novo, S. Di Giorgio, Y. Omar, Optimal quantum spatial search on random temporal networks, Physical Review Letters 119, 220503 (2017). Get PDF
S. Pouyandeh, S. Iubini, S. Jurinovich, Y. Omar, B. Mennucci, F. Piazza, Exciton transport in the PE545 complex: insight from atomistic QM/MM-based quantum master equations and elastic network models, Physical Biology 14, 066001 (2017). Get PDF
B. Richter, H. Terças, Y. Omar, I. de Vega, Collective dynamics of accelerated atoms, Physical Review A 96, 053612 (2017). Get PDF
L. Novo, S. Chakraborty, M. Mohseni, Y. Omar, Environment-assisted analog quantum search, arXiv:1710.02111 (2017). Get PDF
B. Richter, K. Lorek, A. Dragan, Y. Omar, Effect of acceleration on localized fermionic Gaussian states: From vacuum entanglement to maximally entangled states, Physical Review D 95, 076004 (2017). Get PDF
Octavi Boada, Leonardo Novo, Fabio Sciarrino, Yasser Omar, Quantum walks in synthetic gauge fields with 3D integrated photonics, Physical Review A 95, 013830 (2017). Get PDF
G. Dvali, C. Gomez, D. Lüst, Y. Omar, B. Richter, Universality of Black Hole Quantum Computing, Fortschritte der Physik 65, 1600111 (2017).
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M. Pezzutto, M. Paternostro, Y. Omar, Implications of non-Markovian quantum dynamics for the Landauer bound, New Journal of Physics 18, 123018 (2016). Get PDF
S. Chakraborty, L. Novo, A. Ambainis, Y. Omar, Spatial search by quantum walk is optimal for almost all graphs, Physical Review Letters 116, 100501 (2016) – Editors' Suggestion. Get PDF | Popular summary
M. H. Mohammady, M. Mohseni, Y. Omar, Minimising the heat dissipation of quantum information erasure, New Journal of Physics 18, 015011
(2016). Get PDF | Popular summary
H. Terças, S. Ribeiro, M. Pezzutto, Y. Omar, Quantum Thermal Machines Fuelled by Vacuum Forces, arXiv:1604.08732 (2016). Get PDF
L. Novo, M. Mohseni, Y. Omar, Disorder-assisted quantum transport in suboptimal decoherence regimes, Scientific Reports 6, 18142 (2016). Get PDF | Popular summary
S. Iubini, O. Boada, Y. Omar, F. Piazza, Transport of quantum excitations coupled to spatially extended nonlinear many-body systems, New J. Phys. 17, 113030 (2015). Get PDF
A. Bayat, Y. Omar, Measurement-Assisted Quantum Communication in Spin Channels with Dephasing, New J. Phys. 17, 103041 (2015). Get PDF
B. Richter, Y. Omar, Degradation of entanglement between two accelerated parties: Bell states under the Unruh effect, Phys. Rev. A 92, 022334 (2015). Get PDF | Popular summary
L. Novo, S. Chakraborty, M. Mohseni, H. Neven, Y. Omar, Systematic Dimensionality Reduction for Quantum Walks: Optimal Spatial Search and Transport on Non-Regular Graphs, Scientific Reports 5, 13304 (2015). Get PDF
R. Sousa, Y. Omar, Pretty good state transfer of entangled states through quantum spin chains, New J. Phys. 16, 123003 (2014). Get PDF | Popular summary
G. Cordourier-Maruri, Y. Omar, R. de Coss, S. Bose, Graphene-enabled low-control quantum gates between static and mobile spins, Phys. Rev. B 89, 075426 (2014). Get PDF
M. Mohseni, A. Shabani, S. Lloyd, Y. Omar, H. Rabitz, Geometrical effects on energy transfer in disordered open quantum systems, J. Chem. Phys. 138, 204309 (2013). Get PDF
F. M. Assis, A. Stojanovic, P. Mateus, Y. Omar, Improving Classical Authentication over a Quantum Channel, Entropy 14, 2531 (2012). Get PDF
G. Cordourier-Maruri, F. Ciccarello, Y. Omar, M. Zarcone, R. de Coss, S. Bose, Implementing quantum gates through scattering between a static and a flying qubit, Phys. Rev. A 82, 052313 (2010). Get PDF
V. Atanasov, Y. Omar, Quanta of Conformational Change: Conformons in alpha-helical proteins, New J. Phys. 12 (special issue: Focus on Quantum Effects and Noise in Biomolecules, ed. G. Fleming et al.), 055003 (2010). Get PDF
F. Ciccarello, G.M. Palma, M. Paternostro, M. Zarcone, Y. Omar, Entanglement generation between two spin-s magnetic impurities in a solid via electron scattering, Solid State Sciences 11, 931-934 (2009). Get PDF
Y. Hida, H. Nakazato, K. Yuasa, Y. Omar, Entanglement generation by qubit scattering in three dimensions, Phys. Rev. A 80, 012310 (2009). Get PDF
F. Ciccarello, G. M. Palma, M. Zarcone, Y. Omar, V. R. Vieira, Static Disorder in a 1D Wire with Two Quantum Scattering Centers, Las. Phys. 17, 889-892 (2007). Get PDF
F. Ciccarello, G. M. Palma, M. Zarcone, Y. Omar, V. R. Vieira, Electron Fabry-Perot Interferometer with two Entangled Magnetic Impurities, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40, 7993-8008 (2007). Get PDF
Y. Omar, Particle Statistics: a Resource for Quantum Information Processing, Cosmos - Journal of the Singapore National Academy of Science 2, 61-70 (2006).
F. Ciccarello, M. Palma, M. Zarcone, Y. Omar and V. Rocha Vieira, Entanglement Controlled Single-electron Transmittivity, New J. Phys. 8, 214 (2006). Get PDF
Y. Omar, N. Paunkovic, L. Sheridan and S. Bose, Quantum Walk on a Line with two Entangled Particles, Phys. Rev. A 74, 042304 (2006). Get PDF
A. Costa Jr, S. Bose and Y. Omar, Entanglement of two Impurities through Electron Scattering, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 230501 (2006). Get PDF
Y. Omar, Indistinguishable Particles in Quantum Mechanics: an Introduction, Contemporary Physics 46, 437-448 (2005). Get PDF
Y. Omar, Particle Statistics in Quantum Information Processing, International Journal of Quantum Information 3, 201-205 (2005).
S. Bose, A. Ekert, Y. Omar, N. Paunkovic and V. Vedral, Optimal State Discrimination Using Particle Statistics, Phys. Rev. A 68, 052309 (2003). Get PDF
N. Paunkovic, Y. Omar, S. Bose and V. Vedral, Entanglement Concentration Using Quantum Statistics, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 187903 (2002). Get PDF
Y. Omar, N. Paunkovic, S. Bose and V. Vedral, Spin-Space Entanglement Transfer and Quantum Statistics, Phys. Rev. A 65, 062305 (2002). Get PDF