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20162026
most citedCounterdiabatic Optimised Local Driving

73 citations · 356 across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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32 papers

physics.plasm-ph2026

Quantum approaches for particle-in-cell codes

Ryan J. J. Connor, Andrew J. Daley, Callum W. Duncan +1

Solving the high-dimensional, nonlinear partial differential equations that govern the rich physics of plasmas remains a major computational challenge. In fluid dynamics, quantum-i…

physics.comp-ph2026

Tensor network compression using fluid dynamics as a testbed: Analytical foundations in one dimension

Matthew D. Horner, Callum W. Duncan, Oliver T. Brown +2

High performance computers produce extreme-scale data sets that require sampling or compression if they are to be used to their full potential. Existing data compression techniques…

cond-mat.quant-gas2026

Mott-insulating phases of the Bose-Hubbard model on quasi-1D ladder lattices

Lorenzo Carfora, Callum W. Duncan, Stefan Kuhr +1

We calculate the phase diagram of the Bose-Hubbard model on a half-filled ladder lattice including the effect of finite on-site interactions. This shows that the rung-Mott insulato…

physics.plasm-ph2025

Tensor network approaches for plasma dynamics

Ryan J. J. Connor, Preetma Soin, Callum W. Duncan +1

The dynamics of plasmas are governed by a set of non-linear differential equations which remain challenging to solve directly for large 2D and 3D problems. Here we investigate how…

quant-ph2025

A Quantum Gate Architecture via Teleportation and Entanglement

Samuel J. Sheldon, Pieter Kok, Callum W. Duncan

We present a universal quantum computing architecture which combines the measurement-driven aspect of MBQC with the circuit model's algorithm dependent generation of qubit entangle…

cond-mat.quant-gas2025

Tensor network methods for the Gross-Pitaevskii equation on fine grids

Ryan J. J. Connor, Callum W. Duncan, Andrew J. Daley

The Gross-Pitaevskii equation and its generalisations to dissipative and dipolar gases have been very useful in describing dynamics of cold atomic gases, as well as polaritons and…

cond-mat.quant-gas2025★ 1 cited

Quantum-gas microscopy and Talbot interferometry of the Bose-glass phase

Lennart Koehn, Christopher Parsonage, Callum W. Duncan +6

Disordered potentials fundamentally affect transport and coherence in quantum systems, giving rise to a Bose-glass phase in interacting bosonic systems -- an insulating yet compres…

quant-ph2025

Counterdiabatic-influenced Floquet-engineering: State preparation, annealing and learning the adiabatic gauge potential

Callum W Duncan

Counterdiabatic driving, which enforces adiabatic evolution in arbitrary timescales, can be realised by engineering a Floquet Hamiltonian which oscillates between the Hamiltonian a…

quant-ph2025★ 15 cited

Taming quantum systems: A tutorial for using shortcuts-to-adiabaticity, quantum optimal control, and reinforcement learning

Callum W. Duncan, Pablo M. Poggi, Marin Bukov +2

Precise manipulation of quantum effects at the atomic and nanoscale has become an essential task in ongoing scientific and technological endeavours. Quantum control methods are thu…

quant-ph2024

Exact counterdiabatic driving for finite topological lattice models

Callum W. Duncan

Adiabatic protocols are often employed in state preparation schemes but require the system to be driven by a slowly varying Hamiltonian so that transitions between instantaneous ei…

quant-ph2024★ 6 cited

A numerical approach for calculating exact non-adiabatic terms in quantum dynamics

Ewen D C Lawrence, Sebastian F J Schmid, Ieva Čepaitė +2

Understanding how non-adiabatic terms affect quantum dynamics is fundamental to improving various protocols for quantum technologies. We present a novel approach to computing the A…

cond-mat.dis-nn2023★ 21 cited

Critical states and anomalous mobility edges in two-dimensional diagonal quasicrystals

Callum W. Duncan

We study the single-particle properties of two-dimensional quasicrystals where the underlying geometry of the tight-binding lattice is crystalline but the on-site potential is quas…

cond-mat.quant-gas2023★ 4 cited

Commensurate and incommensurate 1D interacting quantum systems

Andrea Di Carli, Christopher Parsonage, Arthur La Rooij +6

Single-atom imaging resolution of many-body quantum systems in optical lattices is routinely achieved with quantum-gas microscopes. Key to their great versatility as quantum simula…

cond-mat.str-el2022

Interacting Bosons on Crystalline and Quasiperiodic Ladders in a Magnetic Field

Dean Johnstone, Patrik Öhberg, Callum W. Duncan

We study a variety of Hofstadter ladders in order to probe the interplay between interactions, an applied magnetic field and crystalline or quasiperiodic geometries. Rotational mot…

quant-ph2022★ 73 cited

Counterdiabatic Optimised Local Driving

Ieva Čepaitė, Anatoli Polkovnikov, Andrew J. Daley +1

Adiabatic protocols are employed across a variety of quantum technologies, from implementing state preparation and individual operations that are building blocks of larger devices,…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 6 cited

Barriers to Macroscopic Superfluidity and Insulation in a 2D Aubry-André Model

Dean Johnstone, Patrik Öhberg, Callum W. Duncan

We study the ground state phases of interacting bosons in the presence of a 2D Aubry-André potential. By using a a mean-field percolation analysis, we focus on several superlattice…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 11 cited

Bulk Localised Transport States in Infinite and Finite Quasicrystals via Magnetic Aperiodicity

Dean Johnstone, Matthew J. Colbrook, Anne E. B. Nielsen +2

Robust edge transport can occur when particles in crystalline lattices interact with an external magnetic field. This system is well described by Bloch's theorem, with the spectrum…

cond-mat.quant-gas2021

Anyon braiding on a fractal lattice with a local Hamiltonian

Sourav Manna, Callum W. Duncan, Carrie A. Weidner +2

There is a growing interest in searching for topology in fractal dimensions with the aim of finding different properties and advantages compared to the integer dimensional case. It…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 19 cited

The Mean-Field Bose Glass in Quasicrystalline Systems

Dean Johnstone, Patrik Öhberg, Callum W. Duncan

We confirm the presence of a mean-field Bose glass in 2D quasicrystalline Bose-Hubbard models. We focus on two models where the aperiodic component is present in different parts of…

cond-mat.str-el2019★ 64 cited

Topological models in rotationally symmetric quasicrystals

Callum W. Duncan, Sourav Manna, Anne E. B. Nielsen

We investigate the physics of quasicrystalline models in the presence of a uniform magnetic field, focusing on the presence and construction of topological states. This is done by…

physics.optics2019★ 3 cited

Synthetic mean-field interactions in photonic lattices

Callum W. Duncan, Michael J. Hartmann, Robert R. Thomson +1

Photonic lattices are usually considered to be limited by their lack of methods to include interactions. We address this issue by introducing mean-field interactions through optica…

cond-mat.quant-gas2019★ 1 cited

Super Hamiltonian in superspace for incommensurate superlattices and quasicrystals

Manuel Valiente, Callum W. Duncan, Nikolaj T. Zinner

Infinite quasiperiodic arrangements in space, such as quasicrystals, are typically described as projections of higher-dimensional periodic lattices onto the physical dimension. The…

cond-mat.quant-gas2019★ 11 cited

Staggered Ground States in an Optical Lattice

Dean Johnstone, Niclas Westerberg, Callum W. Duncan +1

Non-standard Bose-Hubbard models can exhibit rich ground state phase diagrams, even when considering the one-dimensional limit. Using a self-consistent Gutzwiller diagonalisation a…

cond-mat.quant-gas2019★ 22 cited

Mean-field phases of an ultracold gas in a quasicrystalline potential

Dean Johnstone, Patrik Öhberg, Callum W. Duncan

The recent experimental advancement to realise ultracold gases scattering off an eight-fold optical potential [Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 110404 (2019)] heralds the beginning of a new t…