报告人简介：Danny Terno was born and grew up in Latvia, then part of the USSR. He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at Technion in Haifa, Israel, under the supervision of Asher Peres, and received his Ph.D. in 2003. From 2003 to 2006 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, where his work on black holes and quantum gravity began.
Danny joined the faculty of Macquarie University in Sydney in 2007 and is currently a Professor in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences. Among his international appointments, he served as a Visiting Professor in 2019–2020 at the Shenzhen Institute of Quantum Science and Engineering at SUSTech.
His research interests include black hole physics, quantum gravity, quantum metrology, detection and estimation theory, and the foundations of quantum mechanics.
Beyond physics, Danny’s interests include comparative religion, Medieval history, and Chinese art and classical literature. He remains active in sport, including kickboxing and diving, which help maintain perspective when theoretical problems resist resolution.
报告摘要: Relativistic quantum information (RQI) applies quantum information science to relativistic and gravitational physics, both as a technological tool and as a conceptual framework, and studies relativistic effects on quantum information carriers. Similar to the established quantum information framework, RQI combines quantum foundations and technology. By incorporating relativistic and gravitational constraints, it identifies limits on quantum information processing and opens new possibilities for quantum protocols.
We begin by outlining different levels of interaction between relativity and quantum information, illustrated through representative problems studied in RQI. As one example, we consider quantum key distribution and related quantum technologies on satellite platforms, where current precision and stability requirements bring previously neglected relativistic effects into operation. These effects then serve both as probes of fundamental physics and as constraints on device performance. Finally, we turn to black hole physics, where entanglement theory meets the horizon and the fate of information becomes a concrete physical question.