publications

Journal articles, preprints, and thesis work.

2026

  1. Quantum inputs in the prepare-and-measure scenario and stochastic teleportation
    Elna Svegborn, Jef Pauwels, and Armin Tavakoli
    Quantum Science and Technology, 2026
    arXiv DOI
  2. Multiqubit Elegant Joint Measurement
    Jef Pauwels, and Nicolas Gisin
    Physical Review Letters, 2026
    arXiv DOI
  3. Symmetric Localizable Multipartite Quantum Measurements from Pauli Orbits
    Jef Pauwels, Cyril Branciard, Alejandro Pozas-Kerstjens, and 1 more author
    Physical Review A, 2026
    arXiv DOI
  4. Bell and EPR experiments with signalling data
    Lucas Maquedano, Sophie Egelhaaf, Amro Abou-Hachem, and 4 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.05507, 2026
    arXiv
  5. Stronger Welch Bounds and Optimal Approximate k -Designs
    Riccardo Castellano, Dmitry Grinko, Sadra Boreiri, and 2 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.13099, 2026
    arXiv
  6. Quantum correlations in prepare-and-measure scenarios and their semi-device-independent applications
    Jonatan Bohr Brask, Nicolas Brunner, Jef Pauwels, and 2 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.23604, 2026
    arXiv
  7. Certification of the genuine resolution of photon number resolving detectors
    Jef Pauwels, Towsif Taher, Roope Uola, and 3 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.14365, 2026
    arXiv
  8. Tunable Families of Multiqubit Elegant Joint Measurements
    Jef Pauwels, and Nicolas Gisin
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.16020, 2026
    arXiv
  9. Uncountably many inequivalent maximally entangled measurements for two qutrits
    Elna Svegborn, Jef Pauwels, Nicolas Gisin, and 1 more author
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.16396, 2026
    arXiv

2025

  1. Device-independent quantum key distribution based on routed Bell tests
    Tristan Le Roy-Deloison, Edwin Peter Lobo, Jef Pauwels, and 1 more author
    PRX Quantum, 2025
    arXiv DOI
  2. Information capacity of quantum communication under natural physical assumptions
    Jef Pauwels, Stefano Pironio, and Armin Tavakoli
    Quantum, 2025
    arXiv DOI
  3. Certifying measurement incompatibility in prepare-and-measure and Bell scenarios
    Sophie Egelhaaf, Jef Pauwels, Marco Túlio Quintino, and 1 more author
    Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 2025
    arXiv DOI
  4. Classification of joint quantum measurements based on entanglement cost of localization
    Jef Pauwels, Alejandro Pozas-Kerstjens, Flavio Del Santo, and 1 more author
    Physical Review X, 2025
    arXiv DOI
  5. Holographic (eternal) inflation
    Thomas Hertog, Jef Pauwels, and Victoria Venken
    Journal of High Energy Physics, 2025
    DOI
  6. Quantum stochastic communication via high-dimensional entanglement
    Chao Zhang, Jia-Le Miao, Xiao-Min Hu, and 6 more authors
    Physical Review Letters, 2025
    DOI
  7. Compression of entanglement improves quantum communication
    Yu Guo, Hao Tang, Jef Pauwels, and 7 more authors
    Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2025
    arXiv
  8. Certification of quantum correlations and DIQKD at arbitrary distances through routed Bell tests
    Pavel Sekatski, Jef Pauwels, Edwin Peter Lobo, and 2 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.12241, 2025
    arXiv DOI
  9. Binarization of multioutcome measurements in high-dimensional quantum correlation experiments
    Armin Tavakoli, Roope Uola, and Jef Pauwels
    Physical Review A, 2025
    arXiv DOI
  10. All Entangled States are Nonlocal and Self-Testable in the Broadcast Scenario
    Pavel Sekatski, and Jef Pauwels
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.15656, 2025
    arXiv
  11. Prepare-and-Measure Scenarios with Photon-Number Constraints
    Carles Carceller, Jef Pauwels, Stefano Pironio, and 1 more author
    Physical Review Letters 135, 140802, 2025
    arXiv DOI

2024

  1. Certifying long-range quantum correlations through routed Bell tests
    Edwin Peter Lobo, Jef Pauwels, and Stefano Pironio
    Quantum, 2024
    arXiv DOI

2023

  1. Entanglement and quantum communication between partially characterized devices
    Jef Pauwels
    2023
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2022

  1. Entanglement in prepare-and-measure scenarios: many questions, a few answers
    Jef Pauwels, Armin Tavakoli, Erik Woodhead, and 1 more author
    New Journal of Physics, 2022
    arXiv DOI
  2. Adaptive advantage in entanglement-assisted communications
    Jef Pauwels, Stefano Pironio, Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro, and 1 more author
    Physical Review Letters, 2022
    arXiv DOI
  3. Almost qudits in the prepare-and-measure scenario
    Jef Pauwels, Stefano Pironio, Erik Woodhead, and 1 more author
    Physical review letters, 2022
    arXiv DOI
  4. Entanglement-assisted quantum communication with simple measurements
    Amélie Piveteau, Jef Pauwels, Emil Håkansson, and 3 more authors
    Nature Communications, 2022
    arXiv DOI

2021

  1. Correlations in entanglement-assisted prepare-and-measure scenarios
    Armin Tavakoli, Jef Pauwels, Erik Woodhead, and 1 more author
    PRX Quantum, 2021
    arXiv DOI