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Publications (29)

quant-ph2023

Measurement-induced entanglement and teleportation on a noisy quantum processor

Jesse C. Hoke, Matteo Ippoliti, Eliott Rosenberg +160

Measurement has a special role in quantum theory: by collapsing the wavefunction it can enable phenomena such as teleportation and thereby alter the "arrow of time" that constrains…

quant-ph2019

Supplementary information for "Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor"

Frank Arute, Kunal Arya, Ryan Babbush +74

This is an updated version of supplementary information to accompany "Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor", an article published in the October 24, 201…

quant-ph2024

Dynamics of magnetization at infinite temperature in a Heisenberg spin chain

Eliott Rosenberg, Trond Andersen, Rhine Samajdar +178

Understanding universal aspects of quantum dynamics is an unresolved problem in statistical mechanics. In particular, the spin dynamics of the 1D Heisenberg model were conjectured…

quant-ph2022

Noise-resilient Edge Modes on a Chain of Superconducting Qubits

Xiao Mi, Michael Sonner, Murphy Yuezhen Niu +125

Inherent symmetry of a quantum system may protect its otherwise fragile states. Leveraging such protection requires testing its robustness against uncontrolled environmental intera…

quant-ph2022

Suppressing quantum errors by scaling a surface code logical qubit

Rajeev Acharya, Igor Aleiner, Richard Allen +154

Practical quantum computing will require error rates that are well below what is achievable with physical qubits. Quantum error correction offers a path to algorithmically-relevant…

quant-ph2021

Quantum Approximate Optimization of Non-Planar Graph Problems on a Planar Superconducting Processor

Matthew P. Harrigan, Kevin J. Sung, Matthew Neeley +83

We demonstrate the application of the Google Sycamore superconducting qubit quantum processor to combinatorial optimization problems with the quantum approximate optimization algor…

quant-ph2021

Resolving catastrophic error bursts from cosmic rays in large arrays of superconducting qubits

Matt McEwen, Lara Faoro, Kunal Arya +50

Scalable quantum computing can become a reality with error correction, provided coherent qubits can be constructed in large arrays. The key premise is that physical errors can rema…

quant-ph2024

Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold

Rajeev Acharya, Laleh Aghababaie-Beni, Igor Aleiner +246

Quantum error correction provides a path to reach practical quantum computing by combining multiple physical qubits into a logical qubit, where the logical error rate is suppressed…

quant-ph2025

Magic state cultivation on a superconducting quantum processor

Emma Rosenfeld, Craig Gidney, Gabrielle Roberts +292

Fault-tolerant quantum computing requires a universal gate set, but the necessary non-Clifford gates represent a significant resource cost for most quantum error correction archite…

quant-ph2021

Information Scrambling in Computationally Complex Quantum Circuits

Xiao Mi, Pedram Roushan, Chris Quintana +90

Interaction in quantum systems can spread initially localized quantum information into the many degrees of freedom of the entire system. Understanding this process, known as quantu…

quant-ph2024

Scaling and logic in the color code on a superconducting quantum processor

Nathan Lacroix, Alexandre Bourassa, Francisco J. H. Heras +212

Quantum error correction is essential for bridging the gap between the error rates of physical devices and the extremely low logical error rates required for quantum algorithms. Re…

quant-ph2026

Reinforcement Learning Control of Quantum Error Correction

Volodymyr Sivak, Alexis Morvan, Michael Broughton +296

Quantum error correction (QEC) is the primary strategy for protecting a quantum computer from the environment. Its prerequisite is that errors must remain sufficiently rare, which…

quant-ph2025

Visualizing Dynamics of Charges and Strings in (2+1)D Lattice Gauge Theories

Tyler A. Cochran, Bernhard Jobst, Eliott Rosenberg +189

Lattice gauge theories (LGTs) can be employed to understand a wide range of phenomena, from elementary particle scattering in high-energy physics to effective descriptions of many-…

quant-ph2024

Thermalization and Criticality on an Analog-Digital Quantum Simulator

Trond I. Andersen, Nikita Astrakhantsev, Amir H. Karamlou +224

Understanding how interacting particles approach thermal equilibrium is a major challenge of quantum simulators. Unlocking the full potential of such systems toward this goal requi…

quant-ph2026

Precision quantum simulation of magnon spectra and interactions

Trond I. Andersen, Nikita Astrakhantsev, Jeronimo Martinez +329

Quantum simulation promises to advance materials discovery by accurately simulating complex states of matter, their microscopic excitations, and macroscopic response functions. The…

quant-ph2025

Observation of disorder-free localization using a (2+1)D lattice gauge theory on a quantum processor

Gaurav Gyawali, Shashwat Kumar, Yuri D. Lensky +219

Disorder-induced phenomena in quantum many-body systems pose significant challenges for analytical methods and numerical simulations at relevant time and system scales. To reduce t…

quant-ph2025

Constructive interference at the edge of quantum ergodic dynamics

Dmitry A. Abanin, Rajeev Acharya, Laleh Aghababaie-Beni +262

Quantum observables in the form of few-point correlators are the key to characterizing the dynamics of quantum many-body systems. In dynamics with fast entanglement generation, qua…

quant-ph2023

Non-Abelian braiding of graph vertices in a superconducting processor

Trond I. Andersen, Yuri D. Lensky, Kostyantyn Kechedzhi +166

Indistinguishability of particles is a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics. For all elementary and quasiparticles observed to date - including fermions, bosons, and Abelian…

quant-ph2021

Exponential suppression of bit or phase flip errors with repetitive error correction

Zijun Chen, Kevin J. Satzinger, Juan Atalaya +88

Realizing the potential of quantum computing will require achieving sufficiently low logical error rates. Many applications call for error rates in the regime, but state…

quant-ph2025

Quantum-Classical Separation in Bounded-Resource Tasks Arising from Measurement Contextuality

Shashwat Kumar, Eliott Rosenberg, Alejandro Grajales Dau +280

The prevailing view is that quantum phenomena can be harnessed to tackle certain problems beyond the reach of classical approaches. Quantifying this capability as a quantum-classic…

quant-ph2022

Overcoming leakage in scalable quantum error correction

Kevin C. Miao, Matt McEwen, Juan Atalaya +114

Leakage of quantum information out of computational states into higher energy states represents a major challenge in the pursuit of quantum error correction (QEC). In a QEC circuit…

quant-ph2022

Readout of a quantum processor with high dynamic range Josephson parametric amplifiers

T. C. White, Alex Opremcak, George Sterling +91

We demonstrate a high dynamic range Josephson parametric amplifier (JPA) in which the active nonlinear element is implemented using an array of rf-SQUIDs. The device is matched to…

quant-ph2021

Observation of Time-Crystalline Eigenstate Order on a Quantum Processor

Xiao Mi, Matteo Ippoliti, Chris Quintana +102

Quantum many-body systems display rich phase structure in their low-temperature equilibrium states. However, much of nature is not in thermal equilibrium. Remarkably, it was recent…

quant-ph2025

Demonstrating dynamic surface codes

Alec Eickbusch, Matt McEwen, Volodymyr Sivak +204

A remarkable characteristic of quantum computing is the potential for reliable computation despite faulty qubits. This can be achieved through quantum error correction, which is ty…

quant-ph2026

Hilbert space signatures of non-ergodic glassy dynamics

Aleksey Lunkin, Nicole S. Ticea, Shashwat Kumar +292

Disorder in quantum many-body systems can drive transitions between ergodic and non-ergodic phases, yet the nature--and even the existence--of these transitions remains intensely d…

quant-ph2020

Hartree-Fock on a superconducting qubit quantum computer

Frank Arute, Kunal Arya, Ryan Babbush +79

As the search continues for useful applications of noisy intermediate scale quantum devices, variational simulations of fermionic systems remain one of the most promising direction…

quant-ph2026

Observation of disorder-induced superfluidity

Nicole Ticea, Elias Portoles, Eliott Rosenberg +298

The emergence of states with long-range correlations in a disordered landscape is rare, as disorder typically suppresses the particle mobility required for long-range coherence. Bu…

quant-ph2020

Observation of separated dynamics of charge and spin in the Fermi-Hubbard model

Frank Arute, Kunal Arya, Ryan Babbush +96

Strongly correlated quantum systems give rise to many exotic physical phenomena, including high-temperature superconductivity. Simulating these systems on quantum computers may avo…

quant-ph2022

Formation of robust bound states of interacting microwave photons

Alexis Morvan, Trond I. Andersen, Xiao Mi +147

Systems of correlated particles appear in many fields of science and represent some of the most intractable puzzles in nature. The computational challenge in these systems arises w…