Philip Taranto

Lecturer | Manchester Quantum Systems Group | The University of Manchester | Manchester, UK

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Schuster Building 7.13,

Physics & Astronomy,

Univ. of Manchester,

United Kingdom

Hey there 👋 I’m Philip Taranto, a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at The University of Manchester, leading the Quantum Information & Spatiotemporal Phenomena (QuISP) research group. I also serve as an editor for Quantum journal.

“Complexity” is a notion that permeates our lives through phenomena like weather patterns, social dynamics, and biochemical reactions. Understanding these systems presents a unique challenge: on the one hand, their complexity makes them inherently difficult to model; on the other, the ability to simulate them would clearly be a powerful resource — imagine being at a casino and being able to perfectly predict a coin toss! While these examples stem from classical physics, many underlying principles extend to the quantum realm, albeit ultimately manifesting differently. My research investigates what defines quantum complexity and how it can be harnessed, tackling problems that range from the very foundations of information processing all the way to practical next-generation paradigms of computation and communication.

I was previously a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Tokyo, Japan (2022-2025) and before that I obtained a PhD in physics at the University of Vienna, Austria (2022).

Here you will find a collection of all my papers and theses, some talks and posters, my CV, and recent news.

All of my scientific articles are freely available on arXiv and some statistics regarding them can be found on Google Scholar.

Feel free to contact me via email: philip.taranto@manchester.ac.uk.


News

Jul 8, 2025 Our paper about robust error accumulation suppression for quantum circuits has been published: Phys. Rev. Research 7, 033029.
Jun 30, 2025 Our work presenting a singular value transformation for unknown quantum channels is out: arXiv:2506.24112.
Mar 31, 2025 Our paper presenting a universal algorithm for transforming Hamiltonian eigenvalues has been published: Phys. Rev. Research 7, 013331.
Mar 12, 2025 Our tutorial and review article on higher-order quantum operations is finally out: arXiv:2503.09693.
Feb 18, 2025 Our paper about efficiently cooling quantum systems has been published: Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 070401.

Selected publications

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    Higher-Order Quantum Operations
    Philip Taranto, Simon Milz, Mio Murao, Marco TĂşlio Quintino, Kavan Modi
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    Can the quantum switch be deterministically simulated?
    Jessica Bavaresco, Satoshi Yoshida, Tatsuki Odake, Hlér Kristjánsson, Philip Taranto, Mio Murao, Marco Túlio Quintino
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    Efficiently Cooling Quantum Systems with Finite Resources: Insights from Thermodynamic Geometry
    Philip Taranto, Patryk Lipka-Bartosik, Nayeli A. RodrĂ­guez-Briones, MartĂ­ Perarnau-Llobet, Nicolai Friis, Marcus Huber, Pharnam Bakhshinezhad
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 070401 (2025)
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    Hidden Quantum Memory: Is Memory There When Somebody Looks?
    Philip Taranto, Thomas J. Elliott, Simon Milz
    Quantum 7, 991 (2023)
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    Landauer vs. Nernst: What is the True Cost of Cooling a Quantum System?
    Philip Taranto, Faraj Bakhshinezhad, Andreas Bluhm, Ralph Silva, Nicolai Friis, Maximilian P. E. Lock, Giuseppe Vitagliano, Felix C. Binder, Tiago Debarba, Emanuel Schwarzhans, Fabien Clivaz, Marcus Huber
    PRX Quantum 4, 010332 (2023)
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    When is a non-Markovian quantum process classical?
    Simon Milz, Dario Egloff, Philip Taranto, Thomas Theurer, Martin B. Plenio, Andrea Smirne, Susana F. Huelga
    Phys. Rev. X 10, 041049 (2020)
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    Quantum Markov Order
    Philip Taranto, Felix A. Pollock, Simon Milz, Marco Tomamichel, Kavan Modi
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 140401 (2019)