papers

Publications (16)

hep-th2017

Fast optimization algorithms and the cosmological constant

Ning Bao, Raphael Bousso, Stephen Jordan +1

Denef and Douglas have observed that in certain landscape models the problem of finding small values of the cosmological constant is a large instance of an NP-hard problem. The num…

quant-ph2026

Efficient quantum circuits for high-dimensional representations of SU(n) and Ramanujan quantum expanders

Vishnu Iyer, Siddhartha Jain, Stephen Jordan +1

We present efficient quantum circuits that implement high-dimensional unitary irreducible representations (irreps) of , where is constant. For dimension and er…

quant-ph2019

Quantum Algorithm for Simulating the Wave Equation

Pedro C. S. Costa, Stephen Jordan, Aaron Ostrander

We present a quantum algorithm for simulating the wave equation under Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions. The algorithm uses Hamiltonian simulation and quantum linear system…

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-ph2019

Faster Quantum Algorithm to simulate Fermionic Quantum Field Theory

Ali Hamed Moosavian, Stephen Jordan

In quantum algorithms discovered so far for simulating scattering processes in quantum field theories, state preparation is the slowest step. We present a new algorithm for prepari…

quant-ph2018

Experimentally Generated Randomness Certified by the Impossibility of Superluminal Signals

Peter Bierhorst, Emanuel Knill, Scott Glancy +9

From dice to modern complex circuits, there have been many attempts to build increasingly better devices to generate random numbers. Today, randomness is fundamental to security an…

quant-ph2022

Estimating gate complexities for the site-by-site preparation of fermionic vacua

Troy Sewell, Aniruddha Bapat, Stephen Jordan

An important aspect of quantum simulation is the preparation of physically interesting states on a quantum computer, and this task can often be costly or challenging to implement.…

eess.IV2021

A Fast MR Fingerprinting Simulator for Direct Error Estimation and Sequence Optimization

Siyuan Hu, Stephen Jordan, Rasim Boyacioglu +5

MR Fingerprinting is a novel quantitative MR technique that could simultaneously provide multiple tissue property maps. When optimizing MRF scans, modeling undersampling errors and…

quant-ph2025

Hamiltonian Decoded Quantum Interferometry

Alexander Schmidhuber, Jonathan Z. Lu, Noah Shutty +3

We introduce Hamiltonian Decoded Quantum Interferometry (HDQI), a quantum algorithm that utilizes coherent Bell measurements and the symplectic representation of the Pauli group to…

quant-ph2019

Bang-bang control as a design principle for classical and quantum optimization algorithms

Aniruddha Bapat, Stephen Jordan

Physically motivated classical heuristic optimization algorithms such as simulated annealing (SA) treat the objective function as an energy landscape, and allow walkers to escape l…

quant-ph2015

Classical simulation of Yang-Baxter gates

Gorjan Alagic, Aniruddha Bapat, Stephen Jordan

A unitary operator that satisfies the constant Yang-Baxter equation immediately yields a unitary representation of the braid group B n for every . If we view such an opera…

quant-ph2023

Efficient quantum algorithm for nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations and energy estimation

Dong An, Di Fang, Stephen Jordan +3

Nonlinear differential equations exhibit rich phenomena in many fields but are notoriously challenging to solve. Recently, Liu et al. [1] demonstrated the first efficient quantum a…

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-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-ph2017

Experimentally Generated Random Numbers Certified by the Impossibility of Superluminal Signaling

Peter Bierhorst, Emanuel Knill, Scott Glancy +7

Random numbers are an important resource for applications such as numerical simulation and secure communication. However, it is difficult to certify whether a physical random numbe…