Andreas Winter

Andreas Winter

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Experimental Sciences & Mathematics

Andreas Winter was born in Altötting, a small rural town near Munich, known also as the Heart of Bavaria. After developing an infatuation with science early on, and in particular with mathematics, he decided to study this subject in Konstanz and Berlin. He graduated in 1997 from the Freie Universität Berlin, and went on to obtain a doctorate in mathematics from the Universität Bielefeld in 1999, with the late Rudolf Ahlswede. In 2001 he joined the quantum information group in Bristol as a postdoc, became Lecturer in Applied Mathematics there in 2003, and Professor of the Physics of Information in 2006. In 2012 he left Bristol after 11 years, to move to the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona as ICREA Research Professor, where he is now part of the quantum information group.


Research interests

I work on quantum information, especially quantum Shannon theory, which aims at incorporating information-theoretic ideas into physics. The Shannon theoretic approach has succeeded in quantifying entanglement as a resource in information processing task, and likewise for other properties of quantum systems such as channel and storage capacities of quantum systems. One of my favourite topics is the interplay between classical and quantum information, evident in the intricate structure of local operations in composite systems, such as data hiding or “information locking”. I also work on additivity and non-additivity of quantum channel capacities, quantum data compression, and zero-error quantum communication. Further interests include statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, resource theories, entropy characterization and entanglement measures. But at heart I am a mathematician and will still get fascinated by classic problems: existence of Hadamard matrices, incompleteness, …

Selected publications

– Melo N & Winter A 2019, ‘Intersection patterns of linear subspaces with the hypercube‘, J. Comb. Theory A, vol. 164, pp. 60-71.

– Bera MN, Lewenstein M & Winter A 2019, ‘Thermodynamics from Information‘, in: Thermodynamics in the Quantum Regime, Fund. Theor. Physics , vol. 195, Springer Verlag, pp. 799-820.

– Bera MN, Riera A, Lewenstein M, Khanian ZB & Winter A 2019, ‘Thermodynamics as a Consequence of Information Conservation‘, Quantum, vol. 3, 121.

– Castellini A, Lo Franco R, Lami L, Winter A, Adesso G & Compagno G 2019, ‘Indistinguishability-enabled coherence for quantum metrology‘, Phys. Rev. A, vol. 100, 012308.

– Strasberg P & Winter A 2019, ‘Stochastic thermodynamics with arbitrary interventions‘, Phys. Rev. E, vol. 100, 022135.

– Gour G & Winter A 2019, ‘How to Quantify a Dynamical Quantum Resource‘, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 123, 150401.

– Datta N, Hirche Ch & Winter A 2019, ‘Convexity and Operational Interpretation of the Quantum Information Bottleneck Function‘, ISIT 2019, pp. 1157-1161.

– Khanian, ZB & Winter A 2019, ‘Distributed Compression of Correlated Classical-Quantum Sources‘, ISIT 2019, pp. 1152-1156.

– Khanian ZB & Winter A 2019, ‘Entanglement-Assisted Quantum Data Compression‘, ISIT 2019, pp. 1147-1151.

– Yang D, Horodecki K & Winter A 2019, ‘Distributed Private Randomness Distillation‘, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 123, 170501.

– Das S, Kaur E, Wilde MM & Winter A 2019, ‘Extendibility Limits the Performance of Quantum Processors‘, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 123, 070502.

– Bäuml S, Winter A & Yang D 2019, ‘Every entangled state provides an advantage in classical communication‘, J. Math. Phys., vol. 60, 072201.

– Zhao Q, Liu Y, Yuan X, Chitambar E & Winter A 2019, ‘One-Shot Coherence Distillation: Towards Completing the Picture‘, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 60, 6441-6453.

Selected research activities

–  Co-organiser, with IG Todorov, M Laurent & S Severini: workshop Analytical and combinatorial aspects of quantum information theory, ICMS Edinburgh, 9-13 Sept 2019.

– Senior editor IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Information Theory.