PERSONAL

Name:

Fabricio Toscano

Position:

Adjoint Professor of  Physics,

Instituto de Física

Universidade Federal do

Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Group.

Contact information:

Caixa Postal 68528

Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brasil 21941-972

55+(21) 3938-7477 (office)

55+(21) 3938-7368 (fax)

toscano@if.ufrj.br

Research interestS:

Quantum Information, Quantum Mechanics, Open Systems and Decoherence, Quantum to Classical Transition, Quantum Chaos, Semiclassical Mechanics.

EDucation:

1995 Licenciatura en Cs. Físicas ,

Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA),

Argentina. Thesis: “Estudio de la traza de los propagadores cuánticos B e B2

para el mapa del panadero”; Advisor: Professor Marcos Saraceno.

2000 PhD in Physics, Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF), Brasil. Thesis: “Aspectos geométricos da função de Wigner”; Advisor: Professor

Alfredo M. Ozorio de Almeida.

Enjoy the beautiful evolution (with revivals and fractional revivals) of the Wigner function of an initially coherent state with a Kerr-type Hamiltonian (the square of an harmonic oscillator).