Akram Touil
Contact:
Department of Physics, UMBC
Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
Email: akramt1@umbc.edu
Office: Physics, Rm. 411
Education:
- 2020: PhD-candidacy (Physics) at UMBC
- 2020: Master of Science (Physics) from UMBC
- 2018: Engineering diploma (M.Eng.) from Mohammadia School of Engineers, Rabat, Morocco
- 2015: Classes Préparatoires Aux Grandes Écoles in Physics & Mathematics, at Moulay Youssef CPGE center, Rabat, Morocco
Research interests:
Quantum thermodynamics, quantum foundations, quantum information theory, quantum gravity
Online profiles:
Publications:
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Branching states as the emergent structure of a quantum universe
Akram Touil, Fabio Anza, Sebastian Deffner, and James P. Crutchfield
arXiv:2208.05497 -
Redundantly amplified information suppresses quantum correlations in many-body systems
Davide Girolami, Akram Touil, Bin Yan, Sebastian Deffner, and Wojciech H. Zurek
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 010401 (2022) [arXiv:2202.09328] -
Eavesdropping on the decohering environment: quantum Darwinism, amplification, and the origin of objective classical reality
Akram Touil, Bin Yan, Davide Girolami, Sebastian Deffner, and Wojciech H. Zurek
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 010401 (2022) [arXiv:2107.00035] -
Second law of thermodynamics for quantum correlations
Akram Touil, Baris Cakmak, and Sebastian Deffner
J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 55, 025301 (2022) [arXiv:2102.13606] -
Environment-assisted shortcuts to adiabaticity
Akram Touil and Sebastian Deffner
Entropy 23, 1479 (2021) [arXiv:2110.06681] -
Quantum Euler relation for local measurements
Akram Touil, Kevin Weber, and Sebastian Deffner
Entropy 23, 889 (2021) [arXiv:2106.04459] -
Information scrambling vs. decoherence – two competing sinks for entropy
Akram Touil and Sebastian Deffner
PRX Quantum 2, 010306 (2021) [arXiv:2008.05559] -
Quantum scrambling and the growth of mutual information
Akram Touil and Sebastian Deffner
Quantum Sci. Technol. 5, 035005 (2020) [arXiv:2002.02867]Recommended by Dr. Susana F. Huelga (editor).
Honors and awards
- 2022: Center for Nonlinear Studies
Summer Student Program (SSP) at the Los Alamos National Laboratory - 2021: Center for Nonlinear Studies
Summer Student Program (SSP) at the Los Alamos National Laboratory