Welcome to MeetQIC-2026!
This is the 3rd edition of the Meeting on Quantum Information and Computation at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI), Prayagraj. Our talks will explore cutting-edge developments in quantum entanglement, quantum simulation, quantum key distribution, and many-body systems. We look forward to an exciting and productive meeting!
Talk Schedule
10th July, Friday
Venue: Higgs lecture hall
Invited Talks
| Time |
Speaker |
Title |
| Chair - Anindita Sarkar |
| 10:00-10:45 |
Anindita Bera |
Topology-Dependent Robustness of Quantum Repeater Networks Against Noisy Bell-State Measurements |
| 10:45-11:30 |
Uttam Singh |
Symmetry-driven thermalization via finite de Finetti theorems |
| 11:30-12:00 |
☕ Tea Break |
| 12:00-12:45 |
Samyadeb Bhattacharya |
Extracting Work from Discrete Quantum Polytropic Processes |
| 12:45-2:30 |
🍽️ Lunch Break, Guest house |
| Chair - Shuva Mondal |
| 2:30-3:15 |
Sudipto Singha Roy |
Quantum resource generation and atypical states in pulse-engineered many-body systems |
| 3:15-4:00 |
Tamoghna Das |
Noise adaptive two-way secure deterministic quantum key distribution |
| 4:00-4:30 |
☕ Tea Break |
| Chair - Sudipta Mondal |
| 4:30-5:15 |
Titas Chanda |
Emergence in a classical frustrated system: Symmetry, order, and deconfined classical criticality |
| 5:15 |
🗣️ Discussion with Tea & Snacks |
| 7:30 |
🍲 Dinner, Guest house |
11th July, Saturday
Venue: Higgs lecture hall
| Time |
Speaker |
Title |
| Chair - Sejal Ahuja |
| 9:45-10:30 |
Manabendra Nath Bera |
Fundamental Limitations on the Reliabilities of Power and Work in Quantum Batteries |
| 10:30-11:15 |
Himadri Shekhar Dhar |
Optimal Control in Inhomogeneous Spin Ensemble |
| 11:15-11:45 |
☕ Tea break |
| Chair - Mrinmoy Samanta |
| 11:45-12:30 |
Debasis Sadhukhan |
Quantum Simulation of Long-range systems |
| 12:30-1:15 |
Amit Kumar Pal |
Benchmarking quantum devices on the reciprocity landscape |
| 1:15-3:00 |
🍽️ Lunch break, Guest house |
Featured Talks
| Time |
Speaker |
Title |
| Chair - Akhil Awasthi |
| 3:00-3:15 |
Debarupa Saha |
Unbounded entanglement-sustaining sequential local quantum state discrimination |
| 3:15-3:30 |
Paranjoy Chaki |
Disappearance of measurement-induced phase transition in a quantum spin system for large sizes |
| 3:30-3:45 |
Manju |
Beating noise in frequency estimation with squeezing and memory in continuous-variable systems |
| 3:45-4:00 |
Swati Choudhary |
Protocols to share genuine multipartite entanglement employing copies of biseparable states |
| 4:00-4:15 |
Sayan Mondal |
Mpemba effect in self-contained quantum refrigerators: Accelerated cooling |
| 4:15-4:45 |
☕ Tea Break |
| 4:45-5:00 |
Ayan Sahoo |
Power-law-graded Ising Interactions Stabilize Time Crystals realizing Quantum Energy Storage and Sensing |
| 5:00-5:15 |
Keshav Das Agarwal |
Non-Hermitian quantum spin chains for quantum information processing at long-distances |
| 5:15-5:30 |
Pratik Ghosal |
Hypothesis testing of non-mixed-unitarity of quantum channels |
| 5:30-5:45 |
Argha Debnath |
Tilt-induced localization in interacting Bose-Einstein condensates for quantum sensing |
| Vote of Thanks by Debraj Rakshit |
| 5:45 |
🗣️ Discussion with Tea & Snacks |
| 7:30 |
🍲 Dinner, Guest house |
Abstracts of the talks
