Publications
All of my papers and preprints can also be found on my arXiv page.
2024
- Weak entanglement improves quantum communication using only product measurements
Amélie Piveteau, Alastair A. Abbott, Sadiq Muhammad, Mohamed Bourennane, Armin Tavakoli
Physical Review Applied 21, 034053 (2024) [journal] [arXiv]
2023
- Reassessing the advantage of indefinite causal orders for quantum metrology
Raphaël Mothe, Cyril Branciard, Alastair A. Abbott
[arXiv] - Network-device-independent certification of causal nonseparability
Hippolyte Dourdent, Alastair A. Abbott, Ivan Šupić, Cyril Branciard
[arXiv] - Quantum query complexity of Boolean functions under indefinite causal order
Alastair A. Abbott, Mehdi Mhalla, Pierre Pocreau
[arXiv] - Comparing the quantum switch and its simulations with energetically-constrained operations
Marco Fellous-Asiani, Raphaël Mothe, Léa Bresque, Hippolyte Dourdent, Patrice A. Camati, Alastair A. Abbott, Alexia Auffèves, Cyril Branciard
Physical Review Research 5, 023111 (2023) [journal] [arXiv]
2022
- Improving social welfare in non-cooperative games with different types of quantum resources
Alastair A. Abbott, Mehdi Mhalla, Pierre Pocreau
[arXiv] - Semi-device-independent certification of causal nonseparability with trusted quantum inputs
Hippolyte Dourdent, Alastair A. Abbott, Nicolas Brunner, Ivan Šupić, Cyril Branciard
Physical Review Letters 129, 090402 (2022) [journal] [arXiv] - Receiver-device-independent quantum key distribution protocols
Marie Ioannou, Pavel Sekatski, Alastair A. Abbott, Denis Rosset, Jean-Daniel Bancal, Nicolas Brunner
New Journal of Physics 24, 063006 (2022) [journal] [arXiv] - Receiver-device-independent quantum key distribution
Marie Ioannou, Maria Ana Pereira, Davide Rusca, Fadri Grünenfelder, Alberto Boaron, Matthieu Perrenoud, Alastair A. Abbott, Pavel Sekatski, Jean-Daniel Bancal, Nicolas Maring, Hugo Zbinden, Nicolas Brunner
Quantum 6, 718 (2022) [journal] [arXiv]
2021
- Quantum circuits with classical versus quantum control of causal order
Julian Wechs, Hippolyte Dourdent, Alastair A. Abbott, Cyril Branciard
PRX Quantum 2, 030335 (2021) [journal] [arXiv] - Bounding and simulating contextual correlations in quantum theory
Armin Tavakoli, Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro, Roope Uola, Alastair A. Abbott
PRX Quantum 2, 020334 (2021) [journal] [arXiv] - Computational advantage from quantum superposition of multiple temporal orders of photonic gates
Márcio M. Taddei, Jaime Cariñe, Daniel Martínez, Tania García, Nayda Guerrero, Alastair A. Abbott, Mateus Araújo, Cyril Branciard, Esteban S. Gómez, Stephen P. Walborn, Leandro Aolita, Gustavo Lima
PRX Quantum 2, 010320 (2021) [journal] [arXiv] - Experimental quantum communication enhancement by superposing trajectories
Giulia Rubino, Lee A. Rozema, Daniel Ebler, Hlér Kristjánsson, Sina Salek, Philippe Allard Guérin, Alastair A. Abbott, Cyril Branciard, Časlav Brukner, Giulio Chiribella, Philip Walther
Physical Review Research 3, 013093 (2021) [journal] [arXiv]
2020
- Communication through coherent control of quantum channels
Alastair A. Abbott, Julian Wechs, Dominic Horsman, Mehdi Mhalla, Cyril Branciard
Quantum 4, 333 (2020) [journal] [arXiv] - Quantification of quantum dynamics with input-output games
Roope Uola, Tristan Kraft, Alastair A. Abbott
Physical Review A 101, 052306 (2020) [journal] [arXiv]
2019
- Anomalous weak values without post-selection
Alastair A. Abbott, Ralph Silva, Julian Wechs, Nicolas Brunner, Cyril Branciard
Quantum 3, 194 (2019) [journal] [arXiv]
See also the perspective in Quantum Views by Eliahu Cohen - A hybrid quantum-classical paradigm to mitigate embedding costs in quantum annealing
Alastair A. Abbott, Cristian S. Calude, Michael J. Dinneen, Richard Hua
International Journal of Quantum Information 17, 1950042 (2019) [journal] [arXiv] - Experimental test of an entropic measurement uncertainty relation for arbitrary qubit observables
Bülent Demirel, Stephan Sponar, Alastair A. Abbott, Cyril Branciard, Yuji Hasegawa
New Journal of Physics 21, 013038 (2019) [journal] [arXiv] - On the definition and characterisation of multipartite causal (non)separability
Julian Wechs, Alastair A. Abbott, Cyril Branciard
New Journal of Physics 21, 013027 (2019) [journal] [arXiv] - Experimentally probing the algorithmic randomness and incomputability of quantum randomness
Alastair A. Abbott, Cristian S. Calude, Michael J. Dinneen, Nan Huang
Physica Scripta 94, 045103 (2019) [journal] [arXiv]
2018
- Semi-device-independent characterisation of multipartite entangled states and measurements
Armin Tavakoli, Alastair A. Abbott, Marc-Olivier Renou, Nicolas Gisin, Nicolas Brunner
Physical Review A 98, 052333 (2018) [journal] [arXiv]
2017
- Genuinely multipartite noncausality
Alastair A. Abbott, Julian Wechs, Fabio Costa, Cyril Branciard
Quantum 1, 39 (2017) [journal] [arXiv] - The entropic approach to causal correlations
Nikolai Miklin, Alastair A. Abbott, Cyril Branciard, Rafael Chaves, Costantino Budroni
New Journal of Physics 19, 113041 (2017) [journal] [arXiv]
2016
- Noise and disturbance of qubit measurements: an information-theoretic characterisation
Alastair A. Abbott, Cyril Branciard
Physical Review A 94, 062110 (2016) [journal] [arXiv] - Multipartite causal correlations: polytopes and inequalities
Alastair A. Abbott, Christina Giarmatzi, Fabio Costa, Cyril Branciard
Physical Review A 94, 032131 (2016) [journal] [arXiv] - Tight state-independent uncertainty relations for qubits
Alastair A. Abbott, Pierre-Louis Alzieu, Michael J. W. Hall, Cyril Branciard
Mathematics 4, 8 (2016) [journal] [arXiv]
2015
- A non-probabilistic model of relativised predictability in physics
Alastair A. Abbott, Cristian S. Calude, Karl Svozil
Information 6, 773 (2015) [journal] [arXiv] - A variant of the Kochen-Specker theorem localising value indefiniteness
Alastair A. Abbott, Cristian S. Calude, Karl Svozil
Journal of Mathematical Physics 56, 102201 (2015) [journal] [arXiv] - On the unpredictability of individual quantum measurement outcomes
Alastair A. Abbott, Cristian S. Calude, Karl Svozil
Fields of Logic and Computation II: Essays Dedicated to Yuri Gurevich on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday
LNCS 9300, 69 (2015) [journal] [arXiv]
2014
- Value-indefinite observables are almost everywhere
Alastair A. Abbott, Cristian S. Calude, Karl Svozil
Physical Review A 89, 032109 (2014) [journal] [arXiv] - A quantum random number generator certified by value indefiniteness
Alastair A. Abbott, Cristian S. Calude, Karl Svozil
Mathematical Structures in Computer Science 24, e240303 (2014) [journal] [arXiv]
2013
- A quantum random oracle
Alastair A. Abbott, Cristian S. Calude, Karl Svozil
Alan Turing: His Work and Impact (eds S. B. Cooper and J. van Leeuwen), pp. 206–210, (Elsevier Science, 2013)
2012
- Strong Kochen-Specker theorem and incomputability of quantum randomness
Alastair A. Abbott, Cristian S. Calude, Jonathan Conder, Karl Svozil
Physical Review A 86, 062109 (2012) [journal] [arXiv] - A nuclear magnetic resonance implementation of a classical Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm
Alastair A. Abbott, Matthias Bechmann, Cristian S. Calude, Angelika Sebald
International Journal of Unconventional Computing 8, 161 (2012) [journal] [arXiv] - Von Neumann normalisation of a quantum random number generator
Alastair A. Abbott, Cristian S. Calude
Computability 1, 59 (2012) [journal] [arXiv] - De-quantisation of the Quantum Fourier Transform
Alastair A. Abbott
Applied Mathematics and Computation 219, 3 (2012) [journal] [arXiv] - The Deutsch-Jozsa problem: de-quantisation and entanglement
Alastair A. Abbott
Natural Computing 11, 3 (2012) [journal] [arXiv]
2011
- Von Neumann normalisation and symptoms of randomness: an application to sequences of quantum random bits
Alastair A. Abbott, Cristian S. Calude
Unconventional Computation (UC)
LNCS 6714, 40 (2011) [journal] - Ontology-aided product classification: a nearest neighbour approach
Alastair A. Abbott, Ian Watson
Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development (ICCBR)
LNAI 6880, 348 (2011) [journal]
2010
- Understanding the quantum computational speed-up via de-quantisation
Alastair A. Abbott, Cristian S. Calude
Developments in Computational Models: Causality, Computation, and Physics (DCM)
EPTCS 26, 1 (2010) [journal] [arXiv]
Theses and other manuscripts
- Value Indefiniteness, Randomness and Unpredictability in Quantum Foundations
PhD thesis, University of Auckland and École Normale Supérieure (cotutelle, 2015)
Supervised by Cristian S. Calude (UoA) and Giuseppe Longo (ENS)
[full text] - Quantum Random Numbers: Certification and Generation
MSc thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland (2011)
Supervised by Cristian S. Calude
[full text]