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Publications (34)

quant-ph2025

Local arrows of time in quantum many-body systems

Andrew G. Yates, Jordan Cotler, Nishad Maskara +1

We demonstrate that in quantum many-body systems, local arrows of time can differ from the global time induced by Hamiltonian evolution. That is, within a quantum many-body sys…

quant-ph2025

Fast correlated decoding of transversal logical algorithms

Madelyn Cain, Dolev Bluvstein, Chen Zhao +7

Quantum error correction (QEC) is required for large-scale computation, but incurs a significant resource overhead. Recent advances have shown that by jointly decoding logical qubi…

quant-ph2023

Circumventing superexponential runtimes for hard instances of quantum adiabatic optimization

Benjamin F. Schiffer, Dominik S. Wild, Nishad Maskara +3

Classical optimization problems can be solved by adiabatically preparing the ground state of a quantum Hamiltonian that encodes the problem. The performance of this approach is det…

quant-ph2026

High-fidelity entangling gates and nonlocal circuits with neutral atoms

Simon J. Evered, Muqing Xu, Sophie H. Li +9

Creation and manipulation of entanglement with low error is essential in quantum information systems. In practice, two-qubit entangling gates constitute a dominant error source, li…

quant-ph2023

Logical quantum processor based on reconfigurable atom arrays

Dolev Bluvstein, Simon J. Evered, Alexandra A. Geim +18

Suppressing errors is the central challenge for useful quantum computing, requiring quantum error correction for large-scale processing. However, the overhead in the realization of…

quant-ph2023

High-fidelity parallel entangling gates on a neutral atom quantum computer

Simon J. Evered, Dolev Bluvstein, Marcin Kalinowski +12

The ability to perform entangling quantum operations with low error rates in a scalable fashion is a central element of useful quantum information processing. Neutral atom arrays h…

quant-ph2020

Complexity phase diagram for interacting and long-range bosonic Hamiltonians

Nishad Maskara, Abhinav Deshpande, Adam Ehrenberg +3

We classify phases of a bosonic lattice model based on the computational complexity of classically simulating the system. We show that the system transitions from being classically…

quant-ph2025

Probing the Kitaev honeycomb model on a neutral-atom quantum computer

Simon J. Evered, Marcin Kalinowski, Alexandra A. Geim +15

Quantum simulations of many-body systems are among the most promising applications of quantum computers. In particular, models based on strongly-correlated fermions are central to…

quant-ph2023

Fermionic quantum processing with programmable neutral atom arrays

Daniel González-Cuadra, Dolev Bluvstein, Marcin Kalinowski +10

Simulating the properties of many-body fermionic systems is an outstanding computational challenge relevant to material science, quantum chemistry, and particle physics. Although q…

quant-ph2025

Architectural mechanisms of a universal fault-tolerant quantum computer

Dolev Bluvstein, Alexandra A. Geim, Sophie H. Li +20

Quantum error correction (QEC) is believed to be essential for the realization of large-scale quantum computers. However, due to the complexity of operating on the encoded `logical…

quant-ph2023

Enhancing Detection of Topological Order by Local Error Correction

Iris Cong, Nishad Maskara, Minh C. Tran +5

The exploration of topologically-ordered states of matter is a long-standing goal at the interface of several subfields of the physical sciences. Such states feature intriguing phy…

quant-ph2021

Discrete time-crystalline order enabled by quantum many-body scars: entanglement steering via periodic driving

Nishad Maskara, Alexios A Michailidis, Wen Wei Ho +4

The control of many-body quantum dynamics in complex systems is a key challenge in the quest to reliably produce and manipulate large-scale quantum entangled states. Recently, quen…

quant-ph2024

Floquet engineering of interactions and entanglement in periodically driven Rydberg chains

Nazlı Uğur Köylüoğlu, Nishad Maskara, Johannes Feldmeier +1

Neutral atom arrays driven into Rydberg states constitute a promising approach for realizing programmable quantum systems. Enabled by strong interactions associated with Rydberg bl…

quant-ph2026

Towards Ultra-High-Rate Quantum Error Correction with Reconfigurable Atom Arrays

Chen Zhao, Casey Duckering, Andi Gu +2

Quantum error correction is widely believed to be essential for large-scale quantum computation, but the required qubit overhead remains a central challenge. Quantum low-density pa…

quant-ph2023

Controlling local thermalization dynamics in a Floquet-engineered dipolar ensemble

Leigh S. Martin, Hengyun Zhou, Nathaniel T. Leitao +9

Understanding the microscopic mechanisms of thermalization in closed quantum systems is among the key challenges in modern quantum many-body physics. We demonstrate a method to pro…

quant-ph2025

Walking through Hilbert Space with Quantum Computers

Tong Jiang, Jinghong Zhang, Moritz K. A. Baumgarten +6

Computations of chemical systems' equilibrium properties and non-equilibrium dynamics have been suspected of being a "killer app" for quantum computers. This review highlights the…

cond-mat.stat-mech2021

A learning algorithm with emergent scaling behavior for classifying phase transitions

Nishad Maskara, Michael Buchhold, Manuel Endres +1

Machine learning-inspired techniques have emerged as a new paradigm for analysis of phase transitions in quantum matter. In this work, we introduce a supervised learning algorithm…

quant-ph2025

Quantum coarsening and collective dynamics on a programmable simulator

Tom Manovitz, Sophie H. Li, Sepehr Ebadi +15

Understanding the collective quantum dynamics of nonequilibrium many-body systems is an outstanding challenge in quantum science. In particular, dynamics driven by quantum fluctuat…

quant-ph2026

Fast and Parallel High-Rate STAR Architecture for Megaquop Quantum Simulation

Refaat Ismail, Milan Kornjača, Hong-Ye Hu +4

Fault-tolerant quantum simulation is approaching a phase where encoding overhead, logical Clifford operations, magic-state preparation, and rotation synthesis must be optimized tog…

quant-ph2024

Enhancing Quantum Memory Lifetime with Measurement-Free Local Error Correction and Reinforcement Learning

Mincheol Park, Nishad Maskara, Marcin Kalinowski +1

Reliable quantum computation requires systematic identification and correction of errors that occur and accumulate in quantum hardware. To diagnose and correct such errors, standar…

quant-ph2024

Quantum simulation of dynamical gauge theories in periodically driven Rydberg atom arrays

Johannes Feldmeier, Nishad Maskara, Nazlı Uğur Köylüoğlu +1

Simulating quantum dynamics of lattice gauge theories (LGTs) is an exciting frontier in quantum science. Programmable quantum simulators based on neutral atom arrays are a promisin…

quant-ph2023

Non-Abelian Floquet Spin Liquids in a Digital Rydberg Simulator

Marcin Kalinowski, Nishad Maskara, Mikhail D. Lukin

Understanding topological matter is an outstanding challenge across several disciplines of physical science. Programmable quantum simulators have emerged as a powerful approach to…

quant-ph2025

Batched high-rate logical operations for quantum LDPC codes

Qian Xu, Hengyun Zhou, Dolev Bluvstein +5

High-rate quantum LDPC (qLDPC) codes reduce memory overhead by densely packing many logical qubits into a single block of physical qubits. Here we extend this concept to high-rate…

quant-ph2023

Programmable Simulations of Molecules and Materials with Reconfigurable Quantum Processors

Nishad Maskara, Stefan Ostermann, James Shee +9

Simulations of quantum chemistry and quantum materials are believed to be among the most important potential applications of quantum information processors, but realizing practical…

quant-ph2024

Probing topological entanglement on large scales

Robert Ott, Torsten V. Zache, Nishad Maskara +3

Topologically ordered quantum matter exhibits intriguing long-range patterns of entanglement, which reveal themselves in subsystem entropies. However, measuring such entropies, whi…

quant-ph2020

Controlling many-body dynamics with driven quantum scars in Rydberg atom arrays

Dolev Bluvstein, Ahmed Omran, Harry Levine +12

Controlling non-equilibrium quantum dynamics in many-body systems is an outstanding challenge as interactions typically lead to thermalization and a chaotic spreading throughout Hi…

quant-ph2025

Low-Overhead Transversal Fault Tolerance for Universal Quantum Computation

Hengyun Zhou, Chen Zhao, Madelyn Cain +7

Fast, reliable logical operations are essential for realizing useful quantum computers. By redundantly encoding logical qubits into many physical qubits and using syndrome measurem…

quant-ph2026

Engineering quantum criticality and dynamics on an analog-digital simulator

Alexandra A. Geim, Nazli Ugur Koyluoglu, Simon J. Evered +14

Understanding emergent phenomena in out-of-equilibrium interacting many-body systems is an exciting frontier in physical science. While quantum simulators represent a promising app…

quant-ph2025

Fast simulation of fermions with reconfigurable qubits

Nishad Maskara, Marcin Kalinowski, Daniel Gonzalez-Cuadra +1

Performing large-scale, accurate quantum simulations of many-fermion systems is a central challenge in quantum science, with applications in chemistry, materials, and high-energy p…

quant-ph2021

A quantum processor based on coherent transport of entangled atom arrays

Dolev Bluvstein, Harry Levine, Giulia Semeghini +9

The ability to engineer parallel, programmable operations between desired qubits within a quantum processor is central for building scalable quantum information systems. In most st…

quant-ph2024

Quantum quench dynamics as a shortcut to adiabaticity

Alexander Lukin, Benjamin F. Schiffer, Boris Braverman +9

The ability to efficiently prepare ground states of quantum Hamiltonians via adiabatic protocols is typically limited by the smallest energy gap encountered during the quantum evol…

quant-ph2018

Advantages of versatile neural-network decoding for topological codes

Nishad Maskara, Aleksander Kubica, Tomas Jochym-O'Connor

Finding optimal correction of errors in generic stabilizer codes is a computationally hard problem, even for simple noise models. While this task can be simplified for codes with s…

quant-ph2025

Fault-tolerant compiling of classically hard IQP circuits on hypercubes

Dominik Hangleiter, Marcin Kalinowski, Dolev Bluvstein +6

Realizing computationally complex quantum circuits in the presence of noise and imperfections is a challenging task. While fault-tolerant quantum computing provides a route to redu…

quant-ph2025

Hardware-efficient quantum phase estimation via local control

Benjamin F. Schiffer, Dominik S. Wild, Nishad Maskara +2

Quantum phase estimation plays a central role in quantum simulation as it enables the study of spectral properties of many-body quantum systems. Most variants of the phase estimati…