Elie Wolfe

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Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Research Scientist
Areas of research:
Quantum Foundations
Quantum Information
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If you are interested in working with me as a PhD student, you should send me an email at [email protected], Perimeter Institute is committed to diversity within its community and I welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

I study how quantum resources can be used to generate non-classical correlations, ultimately seeking a quantitative characterization and a qualitative explanation of quantum correlations. In particular I am interested in: <ul> <li>Causal structure in the language of Bayesian Directed Acyclic Graphs</li><li>Quantifying the quantum-over-classical advantage in network-based information-theoretic tasks</li><li>Contrasting quantum Hilbert space dimension with classical cardinality of latent variables</li><li>Quantum Contextuality, in particular, algorithms for quantifying Universal Noncontextuality</li><li>A resource theory of quantum nonclassicality, including Nonlocality and Contextuality</li></ul>
  • NSERC Discovery Grant + Young Research Excellence Grant Supplement
  • No Bipartite-Nonlocal Causal Theory Can Explain Nature's Correlations, Xavier Coiteux-Roy, Elie Wolfe, Marc-Olivier Renou, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 200401 (2021) arXiv: 2105.09381
  • Causal networks and freedom of choice in Bell's theorem Rafael Chaves, George Moreno, Emanuele Polino, Davide Poderini, Iris Agresti, Alessia Suprano, Mariana R. Barros, Gonzalo Carvacho, Elie Wolfe, Askery Canabarro, Robert W. Spekkens, Fabio Sciarrino PRX Quantum 2 (2021) 040323 arXiv: 2105.05721
  • Noam Finkelstein & Beata Zjawin & Elie Wolfe & Ilya Shpitser & Robert W. Spekkens, Entropic Inequality Constraints from e-separation Relations in Directed Acyclic Graphs with Hidden Variables, Proc. UAI 2021, arXiv: 2107.07087
  • Elie Wolfe & Alejandro Pozas-Kerstjens & Matan Grinberg & Denis Rosset & Antonio Acín & Miguel Navascues, Quantum Inflation: A General Approach to Quantum Causal Compatibility, Phys. Rev. X, 11, 2021, 021043 arXiv: 1909.10519
  • Miguel Navascues & Elie Wolfe & Denis Rosset & Alejandro Pozas-Kerstjens, Genuine Network Multipartite Entanglement, Phys. Rev. Lett., 125, 2020, 240505, arXiv: 2002.02773
  • Elie Wolfe & David Schmid & Ana Belén Sainz & Ravi Kunjwal & Robert W. Spekkens, Quantifying Bell: the Resource Theory of Nonclassicality of Common-Cause Boxes, Quantum, 4, 2020, arXiv: 1903.06311
  • Miguel Navascues & Elie Wolfe, The Inflation Technique Completely Solves the Causal Compatibility Problem, J. Causal Inference, 8, 2020 arXiv: 1707.06476
  • Thomas Van Himbeeck & Jonatan Bohr Brask & Stefano Pironio & Ravishankar Ramanathan & Ana Belén Sainz & Elie Wolfe Quantum violations in the Instrumental scenario and their relations to the Bell scenario, Quantum, 3, 2019, arXiv: 1804.04119
  • Elie Wolfe & Robert W. Spekkens & Tobias Fritz The Inflation Technique for Causal Inference with Latent Variables J. Causal Inference, 7, 2019, arXiv: 1609.00672
  • Koon Tong Goh & Jedrzej Kaniewski & Elie Wolfe & Tamás Vértesi & Xingyao Wu &Yu Cai & Yeong-Cherng Liang &Valerio Scarani, Geometry of the set of quantum correlations Phys. Rev. A, 97, 2018, 022104 arXiv: 1710.05892
  • Inflation: a Python library for classical and quantum causal compatibility Emanuel-Cristian Boghiu, Elie Wolfe, Alejandro Pozas-Kerstjens arXiv: 2211.04483
  • An open-source linear program for testing nonclassicality John H. Selby, Elie Wolfe, David Schmid, Ana Belén Sainz arXiv: 2204.11905
  • Contextuality without incompatibility John H. Selby, David Schmid, Elie Wolfe, Ana Belén Sainz, Ravi Kunjwal, Robert W. Spekkens arXiv: 2106.09045
  • PIRSA:20100024, Robert Spekkens and Elie Wolfe, Perimeter Institute, 2020-10-07, Perimeter Public Lectures
  • PIRSA:16060103, How to Characterize the Quantum Correlations of a Generic Causal Structure, 2016-06-16, Quantum Foundations