Toward telecom-compatible fiber-based quantum communication: frequency-bin quantum key distribution and a novel optical quantum memory

Characterization and analysis of quantum processes: Learning-based approaches to quantum channels, positive maps and optical neural networks

Renormalisation of Quantum Cellular Automata

Quantum Cellular Automata (QCA) provide a general framework for local, discrete-time dynamics: a locality-preserving update acts uniformly on a lattice, enforcing finite information speed and well-defined causal structure. This dual viewpoint—as dynamical systems with causal cones and as parallel algorithms on distributed registers—supports applications across information theory and computation, many-body physics, and quantum field theory. Yet connecting microscopic update rules to emergent l...

Radiomics-Driven Analysis and Phantom Design for Lung MRI and Diffusion Imaging

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a core biomedical imaging modality that provides high soft-tissue contrast and multiparametric information without the use of ionizing radiation. The increasing complexity and dimensionality of MRI data have progressively driven a shift from qualitative image interpretation toward quantitative and data-driven approaches, with radiomics emerging as a key methodology for imaging-based biomarker development. However, radiomic features are often sensitive to ac...

Design, Implementation and Commissioning of an Ultrafast XUV Ptychography Beamline

This thesis work focuses on the design, implementation and commissioning of a tabletop beamline for Ultrafast Ptychography experiments using eXtreme UltraViolet (XUV) coherent light. Through High-Harmonic Generation (HHG), femtosecond pulses from a titanium-sapphire regenerative amplifier are coherently upconverted to produce harmonic combs centered at 42.6eV and 96.5eV. The generated radiation retains high spatial and temporal coherence, enabling the implementation of Ptychography, a techniq...

Development of the HiDRa highly granular dual-readout calorimeter prototype and search for heavy neutral leptons with the ATLAS experiment

This thesis presents the work carried out during my Ph.D. at the University of Pavia and INFN, divided into two main lines of research. The first describes the development of a highly granular dual-readout calorimeter prototype, named HiDRa. The second outlines a search for beyond the Standard Model particles called Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. The HiDRa project is part of the detector R&D programme for future lepton colliders such as FCC-ee (CERN) and C...

"Teatri di parole". Lessico e testualità nella poesia di Giorgio Orelli

La tesi consiste in uno studio approfondito delle informazioni e dei dati raccolti attraverso il censimento e la schedatura precisa delle occorrenze di tutti i lemmi usati da Giorgio Orelli nella sua opera poetica, dalla raccolta d’esordio Né bianco né viola alla produzione edita postuma. Adottando una prospettiva tanto paradigmatica quanto sintagmatica, si dà spazio a diverse campionature ispirate a categorie lessicali specifiche; vengono presi in esame, anzitutto, i valori semantici e retor...

La "Nobiltà delle donne" di Lodovico Domenichi: edizione critica e commento

La presente tesi consiste nell’edizione critica e commentata del dialogo "La nobiltà delle donne" (Venezia, Giolito, 1549) di Lodovico Domenichi (1515-1564). L’Introduzione fornisce un breve inquadramento storico-letterario dell’opera e ne analizza alcuni tratti specifici, come le modalità di riscrittura delle fonti e i passi di sospetta eterodossia religiosa. La Nota al testo, suddivisa in Descrizione dei testimoni, Analisi dei testimoni, Criteri di edizione e Apparato critico, giustifica, s...

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