Welcome to Shintaro Minagawa's website!
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