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Stefan Wolf is affiliated with the Universita della Svizzera Italiana in Switzerland. Their research spans several fields and subfields, with a focus on Physics and Astronomy and Computer Science. Key subfields associated with their work include Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Artificial Intelligence; Statistical and Nonlinear Physics; Molecular Biology; and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

The main topics of Stefan Wolf's scientific investigation encompass Quantum Mechanics and Applications, Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture, Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, Quantum Information and Cryptography, Chaos-based Image/Signal Encryption, Quantum chaos and dynamical systems, and Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms.

Wolf's publication record includes papers in notable venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), the 2022 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Nature Cardiovascular Research, Quantum, and the Repository for Publications and Research Data at ETH Zurich.

Selected recent papers include:

  • BBLN triggers CAMK2D pathology in mice under cardiac pressure overload and potentially in unrepaired hearts with tetralogy of Fallot, 2023, Nature Cardiovascular Research
  • On multivariate polynomials achievable with quantum signal processing, 2025, Quantum
  • Thermodynamics as Combinatorics: A Toy Theory, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Key Agreement and Oblivious Transfer from Free-Energy Limitations, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Invitation to Quantum Informatics, 2020, Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)

Wolf's frequent co-authors include Xavier Coiteux-Roy, Ämin Baumeler, A. Montina, Carla Rieger, and Ulla Aeschbacher.

The scientist has contributed to several book publications. Two titles were published by vdf Hochschulverlag AG an der ETH Zürich eBooks: Discrete Mathematics (2022) and Invitation to Quantum Informatics (2020). Additionally, they contributed to Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2022 published by Springer Science+Business Media.

Best Publications

  • Information-theoretic key agreement: from weak to strong secrecy for free

    Ueli Maurer;Stefan Wolf

  • Unconditionally secure key agreement and the intrinsic conditional information

    U.M. Maurer;S. Wolf

  • Simple and tight bounds for information reconciliation and privacy amplification

    Renato Renner;Stefan Wolf

  • Secret-key agreement over unauthenticated public channels .I. Definitions and a completeness result

    U. Maurer;S. Wolf

  • Smooth Renyi entropy and applications

    R. Renner;S. Wolf

  • Secret-key agreement over unauthenticated public channels .II. Privacy amplification

    U. Maurer;S. Wolf

  • The Relationship Between Breaking the Diffie--Hellman Protocol and Computing Discrete Logarithms

    Ueli M. Maurer;Stefan Wolf

  • Privacy amplification secure against active adversaries

    U. Maurer;S. Wolf

  • M & A and innovation :The role of integration and cultural differences — A central European targets perspective

    Florian Bauer;Kurt Matzler;Stefan Wolf

  • Diffie-Hellman Oracles

    Ueli M. Maurer;Stefan Wolf

  • The Diffie–Hellman Protocol

    Ueli M. Maurer;Stefan Wolf

  • Oblivious transfer is symmetric

    Stefan Wolf;Jiirg Wullschleger

  • Secret-key agreement over unauthenticated public channels-Part II: the simulatability condition

    U. Maurer;S. Wolf

  • New bounds in secret-key agreement: the gap between formation and secrecy extraction

    Renato Renner;Stefan Wolf

  • Efficient unconditional oblivious transfer from almost any noisy channel

    Claude Crépeau;Kirill Morozov;Stefan Wolf

  • Lower bounds on generic algorithms in groups

    Ueli M. Maurer;Stefan Wolf

  • Quantum Cryptography on Noisy Channels: Quantum versus Classical Key-Agreement Protocols

    N. Gisin;S. Wolf

  • Distilling Non-Locality

    Manuel Forster;Severin Winkler;Stefan Wolf

  • The space of logically consistent classical processes without causal order

    Ämin Baumeler;Stefan Wolf

  • Perfect signaling among three parties violating predefined causal order

    Amin Baumeler;Stefan Wolf

  • Unconditional authenticity and privacy from an arbitrarily weak secret

    Renato Renner;Stefan Wolf

Frequent Co-Authors

Renato Renner
Renato Renner ETH Zurich
Ueli Maurer
Ueli Maurer ETH Zurich
Nicolas Gisin
Nicolas Gisin University of Geneva
Valerio Scarani
Valerio Scarani National University of Singapore
Gilles Brassard
Gilles Brassard University of Montreal
Tibor Gyimóthy
Tibor Gyimóthy University of Szeged
Sandu Popescu
Sandu Popescu University of Bristol
Timothy C. Ralph
Timothy C. Ralph University of Queensland
Claude Crépeau
Claude Crépeau McGill University
Harald Fuchs
Harald Fuchs University of Münster

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