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Quantum
Chaos Group
The
origin of the Quantum Chaos Group in CBPF can be traced to the
arrival of Alfredo M. Ozorio
de Almeida from the
State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in 1994.
In 1995 Raúl
O. Vallejos came as a postdoc, after working for his PhD
thesis with Marcos Saraceno (Quantum
Chaos Group, CNEA, Buenos Aires), who remains an active
collaborator of our Group.
The tie with CNEA has involved the
exchange of students and postdocs as well as several publications.
Subsequently, R. O. Vallejos worked with Caio
H. Lewenkopf (at the Fluminense Federal University, UFF,
Niteroi) who was a major collaborator with our group, having
participated in our PRONEX project up to May 2004.
In 2001 R.
Vallejos obtained a tenured position in CBPF and presently he
supervises a new batch of graduate students.
The
Group presently counts Fabricio Toscano, who did his thesis work
with us but is now at the Federal University (UFRJ), and is a
frequent local collaborator.
As well as the intense academic
ties with the group of Marcos Saraceno in CNEA and with Marcus
M. de Aguiar in UNICAMP, a new interaction is now in progress
with the group led by Jan-Michael
Rost in the Max Planck Institute in Dresden.
Further long
standing exchanges are continued with Bristol
University (M. V. Berry, J. P. Keating and M. Sieber),
University of Tours
(O. Brodier) and the University
of Paris-Orsay (E. Bogomolny, P. Leboeuf).
As from
2001, the Group has participated intensely in the activities of
The
Millennium Institute of Quantum Information (Brazil).
The
increasing emphasis on the study of quantum entanglement and
decoherence, as well as the possibilities of direct local
collaboration with the Nuclear
Resonance Group in CBPF, led to the recent formation of the
Quantum Information Group
in CBPF.
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