Bruno Miguel Santos Mera

Bruno Mera

Academic position:	Researcher
Joining date:	02-01-2013
Roles in IT:	Researcher
Thematic Line:	Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies
Group:	Security and Quantum Information - Lx

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Address: IT – Lisboa
Instituto Superior Técnico - Torre Norte - Piso 10
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1
1049 - 001 Lisboa
Tel: +351 21 841 84 54
Fax: +351 21 841 84 72

https://www.orcid.org/0000-0002-7214-6506

Scientific Achievements

Degrees

PhD, Instituto Superior Técnico, 08-02-2018
MSc, Instituto Superior Técnico, 01-01-2011

Expertise Topics

Topological Phases of Matter
Information Geometry
Quantum Information
Open Quantum Systems

Academic Activities

1Supervision of PhD theses

As Co-supervisor

On the efficiency of recovering density operators from direct quantum correlations via Jaynes principle, PhD Student, Serena Di Giorgio, Defended 12-2020

Publications

19Papers in Journals

B. Mera, N. Paunkovic, S. T. Amin, V. Vieira, Information geometry of quantum critical submanifolds: Relevant, marginal, and irrelevant operators, Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Vol. 106, No. 15, pp. 155101 - 155101, October, 2022 | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
B. Mera, P. Mateus, A. M. Carvalho, Model complexity in statistical manifolds: the role of curvature, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 68, No. 9, pp. 5619 - 5636, September, 2022 | Full text (PDF 807 KBs) | BibTex
B. Mera, T. O. Ozawa, Engineering geometrically flat Chern bands with Fubini-Study Kähler structure, Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Vol. 104, No. 11, pp. 115160-1 - 115160-16, September, 2021,
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T. O. Ozawa, B. Mera, Relations between topology and the quantum metric for Chern insulators, Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Vol. 104, No. 4, pp. 045103-1 - 045103-13, July, 2021,
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B. Mera, T. O. Ozawa, Kähler geometry and Chern insulators: Relations between topology and the quantum metric, Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Vol. 104, No. 4, pp. 045104-1 - 045104-13, July, 2021,
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H. S. Silva, N. Paunkovic, B. Mera, Interferometric geometry from symmetry-broken Uhlmann gauge group with applications to topological phase transitions, Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Vol. 103, No. 8, pp. 085127-01 - 085127-14, February, 2021,
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B. Mera, The product of two independent Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chains yields a two-dimensional Chern insulator, Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Vol. 102, No. 15, pp. 155150 - 155168, October, 2020,
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S. Di Giorgio, P. Mateus, B. Mera, Recoverability from direct quantum correlations, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, Vol. 43, No. 18, pp. 185301 - 185301, March, 2020 | BibTex
B. Mera, Localization anisotropy and complex geometry in two-dimensional insulators, Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Vol. 101, No. 11, pp. 115128-1 - 115128-6, March, 2020 | BibTex
S. T. Amin, B. Mera, N. Paunkovic, V. Vieira, Information geometric analysis of long range topological superconductors, Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, Vol. in print, No. 1, pp. 1 - 1, August, 2019 | BibTex
B. Mera, K. Sacha Sacha, Y. Omar, Topologically Protected Quantization of Work, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 123, No. 2, pp. 020601-1 - 020601-6, July, 2019,
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B. Mera, Information Geometry in the Analysis of Phase Transitions, Acta Physica Polonica A, Vol. 135, No. 6, pp. 1171 - 1179, June, 2019,
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P.D. Sacramento, B. Mera, N. Paunkovic, Vanishing k-space fidelity and phase diagram’s bulk-edge-bulk correspondence, Annals of Physics, Vol. 401, No. -, pp. 40 - 59, December, 2018,
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B. Mera, S. T. Amin, C. V. Vlachou, N. Paunkovic, V. Vieira, Fidelity and Uhlmann connection analysis of topological phase transitions in two dimensions, Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Vol. 98, No. 24, pp. 245141-1 - 245141-19, December, 2018,
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B. Mera, C. V. Vlachou, N. Paunkovic, V. Vieira, O. Viyuela, Dynamical phase transitions at finite temperature from fidelity and interferometric Loschmidt echo induced metrics, Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Vol. 97, No. 9, pp. 094110-1 - 094110-15, March, 2018,
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B. Mera, C. V. Vlachou, N. Paunkovic, V. Vieira, Boltzmann–Gibbs states in topological quantum walks and associated many-body systems: fidelity and Uhlmann parallel transport analysis of phase transitions, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, Vol. 50, No. 36, pp. 365302 - 365302-17, August, 2017,
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B. Mera, C. V. Vlachou, N. Paunkovic, V. Vieira, Uhlmann connection in fermionic systems undergoing phase transitions, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 119, No. 1, pp. 015702 - 015702-6, July, 2017,
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B. Mera, V. Vieira, M. Araújo, Properties of some Hamiltonians describing topologically non-trivial fermionic systems, Condensed Matter Physics, Vol. 27, No. 46, pp. 465501 - 465501, October, 2015,
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B. Mera, V. Vieira, V. Dugaev, Dynamics of magnetic moments coupled to electrons and lattice oscillations, Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Vol. 88, No. 18, pp. 184419 - 184434, November, 2013,
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IT Member Profile

Bruno Mera

Scientific Achievements

As Co-supervisor