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20172026
most citedTowards quantum simulation with circular Rydberg atoms

142 citations · 548 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

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-ph2026

Multifractal and Glassy Signatures of Non-Ergodic 2D Quantum Dynamics

Aleksey Lunkin, Nicole S. Ticea, Michael T. Solomon +296

The fate of ergodicity and localization in disordered, interacting quantum systems in two spatial dimensions remains an outstanding open problem in non-equilibrium physics. Theoret…

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-ph2025

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-ph2025

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

Quantum computation of molecular geometry via many-body nuclear spin echoes

C. Zhang, R. G. Cortiñas, A. H. Karamlou +320

Quantum-information-inspired experiments in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy may yield a pathway towards determining molecular structure and properties that are otherwise ch…

quant-ph2025★ 3 cited

Unraveling the switching dynamics in a quantum double-well potential

Qile Su, Rodrigo G. Cortiñas, Jayameenakshi Venkatraman +1

The spontaneous switching of a quantum particle between the wells of a double-well potential is a phenomenon of general interest to physics and chemistry. It was broadly believed t…

quant-ph2024★ 10 cited

A Roadmap for Simulating Chemical Dynamics on a Parametrically Driven Bosonic Quantum Device

Delmar G. A. Cabral, Pouya Khazaei, Brandon C. Allen +8

Chemical reactions are commonly described by the reactive flux transferring population from reactants to products across a double-well free energy barrier. Dynamics often involves…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

Asymmetry Control in a Parametric Oscillator for the Quantum Simulation of Chemical Activation

Alejandro Cros Carrillo de Albornoz, Rodrigo G. Cortiñas, Max Schäfer +8

Dissipative tunneling remains a cornerstone effect in quantum mechanics. In chemistry, it plays a crucial role in governing the rates of chemical reactions, often modeled as the mo…

quant-ph2024

Controlled-squeeze gate in superconducting quantum circuits

Nicolás F. Del Grosso, Rodrigo G. Cortiñas, Paula I. Villar +2

We present a method to prepare non-classical states of the electromagnetic field in a microwave resonator. It is based on a controlled gate that applies a squeezing operation on a…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

Impact of chaos on the excited-state quantum phase transition of the Kerr parametric oscillator

Ignacio García-Mata, Miguel A. Prado Reynoso, Rodrigo G. Cortiñas +4

The driven Kerr parametric oscillator, of interest to fundamental physics and quantum technologies, exhibits an excited state quantum phase transition (ESQPT) originating in an uns…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Quantum Control of an Oscillator with a Kerr-cat Qubit

Andy Z. Ding, Benjamin L. Brock, Alec Eickbusch +10

Bosonic codes offer a hardware-efficient strategy for quantum error correction by redundantly encoding quantum information in the large Hilbert space of a harmonic oscillator. Howe…

quant-ph2024★ 35 cited

Simulating Chemistry on Bosonic Quantum Devices

Rishab Dutta, Delmar G. A. Cabral, Ningyi Lyu +23

Bosonic quantum devices offer a novel approach to realize quantum computations, where the quantum two-level system (qubit) is replaced with the quantum (an)harmonic oscillator (qum…

physics.atom-ph2024★ 5 cited

Threading an atom with light

Rodrigo G. Cortiñas

We propose a ponderomotive trapping mechanism for circular Rydberg atoms that consists in threading the Rydberg orbital with a tightly focused Gaussian laser beam. The trap exhibit…

quant-ph2023★ 16 cited

Symmetries of the squeeze-driven Kerr oscillator

Francesco Iachello, Rodrigo G. Cortiñas, Francisco Pérez-Bernal +1

We study the symmetries of the static effective Hamiltonian of a driven superconducting nonlinear oscillator, the so-called squeeze-driven Kerr Hamiltonian, and discover a remarkab…

quant-ph2023★ 16 cited

Driving superconducting qubits into chaos

Jorge Chávez-Carlos, Miguel A. Prado Reynoso, Ignacio García-Mata +4

Kerr parametric oscillators are potential building blocks for fault-tolerant quantum computers. They can stabilize Kerr-cat qubits, which offer advantages toward the encoding and m…

quant-ph2023★ 20 cited

Effective versus Floquet theory for the Kerr parametric oscillator

Ignacio García-Mata, Rodrigo G. Cortiñas, Xu Xiao +4

Parametric gates and processes engineered from the perspective of the static effective Hamiltonian of a driven system are central to quantum technology. However, the perturbative e…

quant-ph2023

Mapping Molecular Hamiltonians into Hamiltonians of Modular cQED Processors

Ningyi Lyu, Alessandro Miano, Ioannis Tsioutsios +7

We introduce a general method based on the operators of the Dyson-Masleev transformation to map the Hamiltonian of an arbitrary model system into the Hamiltonian of a circuit Quant…

quant-ph2023★ 20 cited

Quantum tunneling and level crossings in the squeeze-driven Kerr oscillator

Miguel A. Prado Reynoso, D. J. Nader, Jorge Chávez-Carlos +6

The quasi-energy spectrum recently measured in experiments with a squeeze-driven superconducting Kerr oscillator showed good agreement with the energy spectrum of its corresponding…

quant-ph2023★ 4 cited

A diagrammatic method to compute the effective Hamiltonian of driven nonlinear oscillators

Xu Xiao, Jayameenakshi Venkatraman, Rodrigo G. Cortiñas +2

In this work, we present a new diagrammatic method for computing the effective Hamiltonian of driven nonlinear oscillators. At the heart of our method is a self-consistent perturba…

quant-ph2022★ 10 cited

A driven quantum superconducting circuit with multiple tunable degeneracies

Jayameenakshi Venkatraman, Rodrigo G. Cortinas, Nicholas E. Frattini +2

We present the experimental discovery of multiple simultaneous degeneracies in the spectrum of a Kerr oscillator subjected to a squeezing drive. This squeezing, in combination with…

quant-ph2022★ 40 cited

Spectral kissing and its dynamical consequences in the squeeze-driven Kerr oscillator

Jorge Chávez-Carlos, Talía L. M. Lezama, Rodrigo G. Cortiñas +5

Transmon qubits are the predominant element in circuit-based quantum information processing, such as existing quantum computers, due to their controllability and ease of engineerin…

quant-ph2022★ 16 cited

On the static effective Lindbladian of the squeezed Kerr oscillator

Jayameenakshi Venkatraman, Xu Xiao, Rodrigo G. Cortiñas +1

We derive the static effective Lindbladian beyond the rotating wave approximation (RWA) for a driven nonlinear oscillator coupled to a bath of harmonic oscillators. The associated…

quant-ph2022★ 48 cited

The squeezed Kerr oscillator: spectral kissing and phase-flip robustness

Nicholas E. Frattini, Rodrigo G. Cortiñas, Jayameenakshi Venkatraman +9

By applying a microwave drive to a specially designed Josephson circuit, we have realized an elementary quantum optics model, the squeezed Kerr oscillator. This model displays, as…