Eric Chitambar

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Education

• Ph.D. in Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2010
• M.S. in Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2008
• B.S. Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, 2005

Course Development

• ECE 305: Quantum Information Systems I, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Developed the course, course notes, slide decks, and homework exercises.
• ECE 404: Quantum Information Theory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Developed the course, course notes, slide decks, and homework exercises.

Short Courses

• ``Illinois Quantum Computing Summer School,'' Discovery Partners Institute, Chicago: June 17-20, 2019 -- Developed and conducted tutorial sessions for the summer school.

Selected Articles in Journals

• ZHANG, Y., Chitambar, E., "Exact Steering Bound for Two-Qubit Werner States," Physical Review Letters, 132, 250201 (2024).
• Chitambar, E. and Leditzky, F., “On the Duality of Teleportation and Dense Coding,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 70, 3529 (2024).
• JI, K. and Chitambar, E., ``Incompatibility as a Resource for Programmable Quantum Instruments,'' Physical Review X Quantum, 5, 010340 (2024).
• GATTO LAMAS, A. and Chitambar, E., “Multipartite Nonlocality in Clifford Networks,” Physical Review Letters, 130, 240802 (2023).
• Chitambar, E., GEORGE, I., DOOLITTLE, B., and Junge, M., ``The Communication Value of a Quantum Channel,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 69, 1660 (2022).
• ZHANG, Y., CHEN, X., and Chitambar, E., ``Building Multiple Access Channels with a Single Particle,'' Quantum, 6, 653 (2022).
• Chitambar, E., Gour, G., Sengupta, K., and Zibakhsh, R., ``Quantum Bell Nonlocality as a Form of Entanglement,'' Physical Review A, 104, 052208 (2021).
• ZHANG, Y., Bravo, R.A., Lorenz, V., and Chitambar, E., "Channel Activation of CHSH Nonlocality." New Journal of Physics, 22, 043003 (2020)
• Chitambar E., de Vincente, J., Girard, M., and Gour, G., "Entanglement manipulation and distillability beyond LOCC." Journal of Mathematical Physics, 61, 042201 (2020)
• GONZALES, A. and Chitambar, E., "Bounds on Instantaneous Nonlocal Quantum Computation." IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 66, 2951 (2020)
• YUE, Q. and Chitambar, E., ``The Zero-error Entanglement Cost is Highly Non-Additive.'' Journal of Mathematical Physics, 60, 112204 (2019).
• Chitambar, E. and Gour, G., ``Quantum Resource Theories.'' Reviews of Modern Physics, 91, 025001 (2019).
• Chitambar, E., Fortescue, B., and Hsieh, M.-H., ``The Conditional Common Information in Classical and Quantum Secret Key Distillation.'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 64, 7381 (2018).
• DILLEY, D. and Chitambar, E., ``More Nonlocality with Less Entanglement in CHSH Experiments using Inefficient Detectors.'' Physical Review A, 97, 062313 (2018).
• Chitambar, E., ``Dephasing-Covariant Operations Enable Asymptotic Reversibility of Quantum Resources.'' Physical Review A, 97, 050301 (Rapid Communication) (2018)
• Chitambar, E. and Hsieh, M.-H., ``Round Complexity in the Local Transformations of Quantum and Classical States.'' Nature Communications, 8, 2086 (2017).
• Chitambar, E., Gour, G., ``Critical Examination of Incoherent Operations and a Physically Consistent Resource Theory of Quantum Coherence,'' Physical Review Letters, 117, 030401 (2016).
• Lim, C., Xu, F., Siopsis, G., Chitambar, E., Evans, P., and Qi, B., ``Loss-tolerant quantum secure positioning with weak laser sources.'' Physical Review A 94, 032315 (2016).
• Chitambar, E., Hsieh, M.-H. and Winter, A., ``The Private and Public Correlation Cost of Three Random Variables with Collaboration,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 62, 2034 (2016).
• Chitambar, E., Fortescue, B., and Hsieh, M.-H., ''A Classical Analog to Entanglement Reversibility,'' Physical Review Letters, 115, 090501 (2015).
• MAXWELL, K. and Chitambar, E., ``Bell Inequalities with Communication Assistance,'' Physical Review A, 89, 042108 (2014).
• Chitambar, E., Leung, D., Mancinska, L., Ozols, M. and Winter, A., ``Everything You Always Wanted to Know About LOCC (But Were Afraid to Ask),'' Communications in Mathematical Physics, 328, 303 (2014).
• Chitambar, E. and Hsieh, M.-H., ``Revisiting the Optimal Detection of Quantum Information,'' Physical Review A, 88, 020302 (Rapid Communication) (2013).
• Chitambar, E. ``Quantum Correlations in Large-Dimensional States of High Symmetry,'' Physical Review A, 86, 032110 (2012).
• Chitambar, E., Cui, W. and Lo, H.-K., ``Increasing Entanglement Monotones by Separable Operations,'' Physical Review Letters, 108, 240504 (2012).
• Chitambar, E., ``Local Transformations Requiring Infinite Rounds of Classical Communication,'' Physical Review Letters, 107, 190502 (2011).
• Chen, L., Chitambar, E., Duan, R., Ji, Z. and Winter, A. ``Tensor Rank and Stochastic Entanglement Catalysis for Multipartite Pure States,'' Physical Review Letters, 105, 200501 (2010).
• Chitambar, E., Miller, C. and Shi, Y., ``Matrix Pencils and Entanglement Classification,'' Journal of Mathematical Physics, 51, 072205 (2010).
• Chitambar, E., Duan, R. and Shi, Y., ``Multipartite to Bipartite Entanglement Transformations and Polynomial Identity Testing,'' Physical Review A, 81, 052310 (2010).
• Chitambar, E. and Duan, R., ``Nonlocal Entanglement Transformations Achievable by Separable Operations,'' Physical Review Letters, 103, 110502 (2009).
• Chitambar, E., Duan, R. and Shi, Y., ``Tripartite Entanglement Transformations and Tensor Rank,'' Physical Review Letters, 101, 140502 (2008).

Articles in Conference Proceedings

• Chitambar E., Fortescue, B., and Hsieh, M.-H., ''Distributions Attaining Secret Key at a Rate of the Conditional Mutual Information,'' Advances in Cryptology -- CRYPTO 2015, Conference Proceedings, 432 (2015).

Journal Editorships

• Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (2024 -- Present).