====== Stefano Olivares ======

===== Biography =====
Stefano Olivares received the Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Milan, Milano, Italy, in 2004 and is currently a Researcher at the Department of Physics, University of Milan, Italy. He is a theoretician, and his interests include quantum information, quantum estimation, quantum optics, quantum interferometry, and quantum computation. His main contributions are in the fields of quantum estimation of states and operations, generation and application of entanglement, decoherence, quantum information and communication. Although his research activity is mainly theoretical, he is an active collaborator in many experimental groups.

===== Wigner-specific research =====
(selection)

  * [[Stefano Olivares]], Alessia Allevi, Giovanni Caiazzo, M. G. A. Paris, and Maria Bondani, [[https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/ab4afb/meta|Quantum tomography of light states by photon-number-resolving detectors]], New. J. Phys. **21**, 103045 (2019)
  * C. Sparaciari, [[Stefano Olivares]], and M. G. A. Paris, [[http://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.93.023810|Gaussian-state interferometry with passive and active elements]], Phys. Rev. A **93**, 023810 (2016)
  * S. Cialdi, C. Porto, D. Cipriani, [[Stefano Olivares]], and M. G. A. Paris, [[http://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.93.043805|Full quantum state reconstruction of symmetric two-mode squeezed thermal states via spectral homodyne detection and a state-balancing detector]], Phys. Rev. A **93**, 043805 (2016)
  * C. Sparaciari, [[Stefano Olivares]], and M. G. A. Paris, [[https://www.osapublishing.org/josab/abstract.cfm?uri=josab-32-7-1354|Bounds to precision for quantum interferometry with Gaussian states and operations]], J. Opt. Soc. Am. B **32**, 1354 (2015)
  * M. Esposito, F. Benatti, R. Floreanini, [[Stefano Olivares]], F. Randi, K. Titimbo, M. Pividori, F. Novelli, F. Cilento, F. Parmigiani, and D. Fausti, [[http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/16/4/043004|Pulsed homodyne Gaussian quantum tomography with low detection efficiency]], New. J. Phys. **16**, 043004 (2014)
  * A. Meda, [[Stefano Olivares]], I. P. Degiovanni, G. Brida, M. Genovese, and M. G. A. Paris, [[https://www.osapublishing.org/ol/abstract.cfm?uri=ol-38-16-3099|Revealing interference by continuous variable discordant states]], Optics Letters **38**, 3099 (2013)
  * M. G. Genoni, M. L. Palma, T. Tufarelli, [[Stefano Olivares]], M. S. Kim, and M. G. A. Paris, [[http://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.87.062104|Detecting quantum non-Gaussianity via the Wigner function]], Phys. Rev. A **87**, 062104 (2013)
  * [[Stefano Olivares]], [[http://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjst/e2012-01532-4|Quantum optics in the phase space - A tutorial on Gaussian states]]; Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics **203**, 3-24 (2012)
  * [[Stefano Olivares]] and M. G. A. Paris, [[http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.170505|Fidelity matters: the birth of entanglement in the mixing of Gaussian states]], Phys. Rev. Lett. **107**, 170505 (2011)
  * V. D'Auria, S. Fornaro, A. Porzio, S. Solimeno, [[Stefano Olivares]], and M. G. A. Paris, [[http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.020502|Full characterization of Gaussian bipartite entangled states by a single homodyne detector]], Phys. Rev. Lett. **102**, 020502 (2009)
  * R. Vasile, [[Stefano Olivares]], M. G. A. Paris, and S. Maniscalco, [[http://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.062324|Continuous-variable-entanglement dynamics in structured reservoirs]], Phys. Rev. A **80**, 062324 (2009)
  * S. Maniscalco, [[Stefano Olivares]], and M. G. A. Paris, [[http://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.75.062119|Entanglement oscillations in non-Markovian quantum channels]], Phys. Rev. A **75**, 062119 (2007)

===== Affiliation(s) =====

  * [[http://users.unimi.it/aqm/|Applied Quantum Mechanics Group, University of Milan, Italy ]]


===== Additional information =====
  * [[http://qinf.fisica.unimi.it/~olivares/|Personal Webpage]]