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20132026
most citedCavity State Manipulation Using Photon-Number Selective Phase Gates

214 citations · 1.4k across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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29 papers

quant-ph2026

Local Clifford equivalence to CSS codes: Polynomial-time classification and conversion

Mingyuan Wang, Stefan Krastanov

Calderbank--Shor--Steane (CSS) codes support decoding and fault-tolerant logical operations through separate pure and pure stabilizer checks. Generator choices and single-q…

quant-ph2026

PPVM: A Circuit Simulation Framework for Digital Twins of Quantum Processors

Xiu-Zhe Luo, David Plankensteiner, Kai-Hsin Wu +12

Quantum computers are approaching the early fault-tolerant regime. Verifying the next generation of quantum hardware requires joint emulation of the quantum processor, hardware noi…

quant-ph2024★ 3 cited

WaveguideQED.jl: An Efficient Framework for Simulating Non-Markovian Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics

Matias Bundgaard-Nielsen, Dirk Englund, Mikkel Heuck +1

In this paper, we introduce a numerical framework designed to solve problems within the emerging field of Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics (WQED). The framework is based on collis…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Faster-than-Clifford Simulations of Entanglement Purification Circuits and Their Full-stack Optimization

Vaishnavi L. Addala, Shu Ge, Stefan Krastanov

Quantum Entanglement is a fundamentally important resource in Quantum Information Science; however, generating it in practice is plagued by noise and decoherence, limiting its util…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Quantum theory of single-photon nonlinearities generated by ensembles of emitters

Kurt Jacobs, Stefan Krastanov, Mikkel Heuck +1

The achievement of sufficiently fast interactions between two optical fields at the few-photon level would provide a key enabler for a broad range of quantum technologies. One crit…

quant-ph2023★ 16 cited

Near-term to distillation protocols using graph codes

Kenneth Goodenough, Sébastian de Bone, Vaishnavi L. Addala +4

Noisy hardware forms one of the main hurdles to the realization of a near-term quantum internet. Distillation protocols allows one to overcome this noise at the cost of an increase…

quant-ph2022★ 2 cited

Multiplexed control of spin quantum memories in a photonic circuit

D. Andrew Golter, Genevieve Clark, Tareq El Dandachi +11

A central goal in many quantum information processing applications is a network of quantum memories that can be entangled with each other while being individually controlled and me…

cs.ET2022★ 194 cited

Single chip photonic deep neural network with accelerated training

Saumil Bandyopadhyay, Alexander Sludds, Stefan Krastanov +6

As deep neural networks (DNNs) revolutionize machine learning, energy consumption and throughput are emerging as fundamental limitations of CMOS electronics. This has motivated a s…

physics.optics2022★ 2 cited

All-Photonic Artificial Neural Network Processor Via Non-linear Optics

Jasvith Raj Basani, Mikkel Heuck, Dirk R. Englund +1

Optics and photonics has recently captured interest as a platform to accelerate linear matrix processing, that has been deemed as a bottleneck in traditional digital electronic arc…

quant-ph2022

Spin-Phonon-Photon Strong Coupling in a Piezomechanical Nanocavity

Hamza Raniwala, Stefan Krastanov, Lisa Hackett +3

We introduce a hybrid tripartite quantum system for strong coupling between a semiconductor spin, a mechanical phonon, and a microwave photon. Consisting of a piezoelectric resonat…

quant-ph2022★ 5 cited

A spin-optomechanical quantum interface enabled by an ultrasmall mechanical and optical mode volume cavity

Hamza Raniwala, Pratyush Anand, Stefan Krastanov +3

We propose a coherent mechanical interface between defect centers in diamond and telecom optical modes. Combining recent developments in spin-mechanical devices and optomechanical…

quant-ph2021★ 16 cited

Controlled-Phase Gate by Dynamic Coupling of Photons to a Two-Level Emitter

Stefan Krastanov, Kurt Jacobs, Gerald Gilbert +2

We propose an architecture for achieving high-fidelity deterministic quantum logic gates on dual-rail encoded photonic qubits by letting photons interact with a two-level emitter (…

quant-ph2021★ 10 cited

Error rate reduction of single-qubit gates via noise-aware decomposition into native gates

Thomas J. Maldonado, Johannes Flick, Stefan Krastanov +1

In the current era of Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) technology, the practical use of quantum computers remains inhibited by our inability to aptly decouple qubits from th…

quant-ph2020★ 99 cited

Optically-Heralded Entanglement of Superconducting Systems in Quantum Networks

Stefan Krastanov, Hamza Raniwala, Jeffrey Holzgrafe +4

Networking superconducting quantum computers is a longstanding challenge in quantum science. The typical approach has been to cascade transducers: converting to optical frequencies…

quant-ph2020★ 4 cited

Purification and Entanglement Routing on Quantum Networks

Michelle Victora, Stefan Krastanov, Alexander Sanchez de la Cerda +2

We present an approach to purification and entanglement routing on complex quantum network architectures, that is, how a quantum network equipped with imperfect channel fidelities…

quant-ph2020★ 8 cited

Heterogeneous Multipartite Entanglement Purification for Size-Constrained Quantum Devices

Stefan Krastanov, Alexander Sanchez de la Cerda, Prineha Narang

The entanglement resource required for quantum information processing comes in a variety of forms, from Bell states to multipartite GHZ states or cluster states. Purifying these re…

quant-ph2020★ 64 cited

Quantum coding with low-depth random circuits

Michael J. Gullans, Stefan Krastanov, David A. Huse +2

Random quantum circuits have played a central role in establishing the computational advantages of near-term quantum computers over their conventional counterparts. Here, we use en…

quant-ph2020★ 8 cited

Unboxing Quantum Black Box Models: Learning Non-Markovian Dynamics

Stefan Krastanov, Kade Head-Marsden, Sisi Zhou +3

Characterizing the memory properties of the environment has become critical for the high-fidelity control of qubits and other advanced quantum systems. However, current non-Markovi…

quant-ph2020★ 71 cited

Capturing Non-Markovian Dynamics on Near-Term Quantum Computers

Kade Head-Marsden, Stefan Krastanov, David A. Mazziotti +1

With the rapid progress in quantum hardware, there has been an increased interest in new quantum algorithms to describe complex many-body systems searching for the still-elusive go…

quant-ph2020★ 4 cited

Efficient cavity control with SNAP gates

Thomas Fösel, Stefan Krastanov, Florian Marquardt +1

Microwave cavities coupled to superconducting qubits have been demonstrated to be a promising platform for quantum information processing. A major challenge in this setup is to rea…

quant-ph2020★ 46 cited

Room-Temperature Photonic Logical Qubits via Second-Order Nonlinearities

Stefan Krastanov, Mikkel Heuck, Jeffrey H. Shapiro +3

Recent progress in nonlinear optical materials and microresonators has brought quantum computing with bulk optical nonlinearities into the realm of possibility. This platform is of…

quant-ph2018★ 27 cited

Stochastic Estimation of Dynamical Variables

Stefan Krastanov, Sisi Zhou, Steven T. Flammia +1

Estimating the parameters governing the dynamics of a system is a prerequisite for its optimal control. We present a simple but powerful method that we call STEADY, for STochastic…

quant-ph2017★ 101 cited

Optimized Entanglement Purification

Stefan Krastanov, Victor V. Albert, Liang Jiang

We investigate novel protocols for entanglement purification of qubit Bell pairs. Employing genetic algorithms for the design of the purification circuit, we obtain shorter circuit…

quant-ph2017★ 107 cited

Deep Neural Network Probabilistic Decoder for Stabilizer Codes

Stefan Krastanov, Liang Jiang

Neural networks can efficiently encode the probability distribution of errors in an error correcting code. Moreover, these distributions can be conditioned on the syndromes of the…