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Shintaro Minagawa

Postdoctoral researcher working on quantum information, quantum measurement, thermodynamics, resource theories, and foundations.

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Shintaro Minagawa (皆川慎太朗, he/him/his) is a postdoctoral researcher at Ravi Kunjwal's group, Laboratoire d'Informatique et Systèmes, Aix-Marseille Université. He received his Ph.D. on March 25th, 2025 through research on quantum information at Quantum Mathematical Informatics Group, Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University. His interests are

  • Quantum measurement
  • Foundations of quantum theory
  • Quantum thermodynamics
  • Resource theories
  • General probabilistic theories
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News 2026(Month/Date)

5/29
A paper on indefinite causal order and restricted quantum theory appeared on arXiv.NEW
5/13
A paper on joint realizability tradeoff relation and quantum channel incompatibility appeared on arXiv.
4/9
Poster presentation about our work on steering-based randomness certification at 90 Years of Einstein--Podolsky--Rosen Paradox: Foundations and Applications.
3/13
Joint work with Ravi Kunjwal on steering-based randomness certification has been uploaded to arXiv.
2/6
Joint work with NTU, UNIST, and Nagoya Univ. about catalytic quantum channels has been published in Physical Review Letters.

News 2025(Month/Date)

9/16-17
I visited Condensed matter quantum computing group, The University of Osaka.
9/8-12
I organized 100th anniversary of quantum mechanics “Quantum foundation and quantum information: past and future”.
9/1-5
I visited UTokyo Komaba quantum information theory group.
7/14-18
I attended QPL2025
7/8
I received 名古屋大学岡本若手奨励賞 (Nagoya University Okamoto Young Researcher Encouragement Award)
6/25
I translated an article issued by Scientific American into Japanese, which is published in Nikkei Science (「量子論に虚数は避けられないのか」日経サイエンス2025年8月号)
6/16-20
I attended a summer school Summer School on Mathematical Aspects of Quantum Information (MAQI)
5/24-28
I attended a summer school Mathematics and Physics of Quantum Computing and Quantum Learning
5/1
I became a postdoctral researcher at Aix-Marseille University
4/3
I gave a seminar on quantum measurement processes at PIS Lab, University of Tsukuba
4/1
I started a new position (postdoctoral fellow) at Physico-Informatics and Systems (PIS) Laboratory, University of Tsukuba
3/25
I received my Ph.D.
3/10-3/11
I organized a workshop Quantum Foundations 2025 and gave an oral presentation.
2/7
Joint work with Slovak Academy of Sciences about information thermodynamics has been published in npj Quantum Information.

News 2024

11/9
I gave an oral presentation at QIFQM2024
10/17
I have renewed my website.
10/11
Seminar at Virginia Tech Center for Quantum Information Science and Engineering
9/21
Invited talk at Shenzhen-Nagoya Workshop on Quantum Science 2024
8/31-9/1
I attended a workshop titled "AQIS 2024 Satellite Workshop on Fundamental Aspects of Quantum Information" and gave a poster presentation
7/15-19
I attended a conference titled "Emergence of Classicality: New Perspectives on Measurements in Quantum Theory" and gave an oral presentation
7/8-12
I visited QuIT Physics group and gave a seminar at TU Wien
6/11
A paper titled "One-shot and asymptotic classical capacity in general physical theories" has been published in PRA
5/28
I received a student presentation award for my oral presentation at QIT 49
5/15
Group's website has been launched!
4/9
Invited talk at Q.InC Seminar, A*STAR's Quantum Innovation Centre
3/18-4/19
I visited in.Q group at Nanyang Technological University with the support of 2023年度 博士課程推進機構 海外研修を通した大学院生の研究能力とPhDスキル強化プログラム(JASSO海外留学支援制度(協定派遣))
3/16
Final results presentation of NICT Quantum Camp
3/11-12
I attended Quantum Foundations 2024 as one of the organizers, and also I gave an oral presentation.
2/19-23
I attended The 2nd young researchers' workshop of the Extreme Universe Collaboration as one of the organizers. Also, I gave an oral presentation.
1/25
Our paper on a resource theory of measurement sharpness has been published in Quantum
1/16
Poster presentation at QIP2024

News 2023

12/17
Contributed talk at QIT49
12/6
I visited RIKEN to see the quantum computer as a program of NICT Quantum Camp (with Young Researchers Lab at NICT)
12/8
Invited talk at Nagoya-KAIST GEnKO 2023 Workshop on Quantum Entanglement and Open Quantum Systems
12/5
Poster Presentation Awards for Young Researchers at Quantum Innovation 2023
11/16
I gave a poster presentation at Quantum Innovation 2023
9/16
I gave an oral presentation at JPS 78th Annual Meeting
9/7
I gave an oral presentation at Shenzhen–Nagoya Workshop on Quantum Science 2023
8/31
A preprint on information thermodynamics appeared on arXiv
8/31
I gave a poster presentation at AQIS2023
7/18
I gave a poster presentation at QTD2023
7/11
I have been selected as an outstanding fellow of Nagoya University Interdisciplinary Frontier Fellowship
6/7
A paper about incompatibility of quantum instruments has been published in Quantum
3/28
Talk about quantum thermodynamics at Q-LEAP AI student workshop
3/15
A preprint on measurement sharpness appeared on arXiv
2/28
Talk about quantum thermodynamics at Q-LEAP AI seminar
2/21
Talk about the relationship between information and thermodynamics at KAIST-Nagoya GENKO Workshop
2/14
Talk+Poster on quantum thermodynamics at The 1st young researchers' workshop of the Extreme Universe Collaboration

News 2022

12/17
Poster presentation about information thermodynamics at 22th Asian Quantum Information Science Conference
12/6-7
Poster presentation about information thermodynamics at a workshop "Quantum resources: from mathematical foundations to operational characterisation"
11/18
A new preprint on quantum incompatibility
10/29
We held a workshop on quantum information and foundations of quantum mechanics (QIFQM2)
9/27
Oral presentation about our paper on entropy in GPTs at "Quantum extreme universe from quantum information"
9/22
Our paper on quantum error mitigation has been published in npj QI
8/1
Our paper on the 2nd law in GPTs has been published in PRR
6/14
Oral presentation about our paper on entropy in GPTs at QIP22
4/12
Seminar on Quantum Information and Foundations at Shibaura Institute of Technology
3/23
Poster presentation at Quantum Information Entropy in Physics
3/11
A new preprint about von Neumann's thought experiment in GPTs

News 2021

12/1
Oral presentation at QIT45
10/30
We held a workshop on quantum information and foundations of quantum mechanics
9/10
A new preprint about Quantum Error Mitigation