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most citedQuantum Optimal Control of Nuclear Spin Qudecimals in

45 citations · 282 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

quant-ph2026

Regularized Warm-Started Quantum Approximate Optimization and Conditions for Surpassing Classical Solvers on the Max-Cut Problem

Zichang He, Anuj Apte, Brandon Augustino +4

Demonstrating quantum heuristics that outperform strong classical solvers on large-scale optimization remains an open challenge. Here we introduce Regularized Warm-Started QAOA (RW…

quant-ph2026

Digital signatures with classical shadows on near-term quantum computers

Pradeep Niroula, Minzhao Liu, Sivaprasad Omanakuttan +15

Quantum mechanics provides cryptographic primitives whose security is grounded in hardness assumptions independent of those underlying classical cryptography. However, existing pro…

quant-ph2026

Quantum Approximate Optimization of Integer Graph Problems and Surpassing Semidefinite Programming for Max-k-Cut

Anuj Apte, Sami Boulebnane, Yuwei Jin +3

Quantum algorithms for binary optimization problems have been the subject of extensive study. However, the application of quantum algorithms to integer optimization problems remain…

quant-ph2026

Holstein Primakoff spin codes for local and collective noise

Sivaprasad Omanakuttan, Tyler Thurtell, Andrew K. Forbes +2

Quantum error correction is essential for fault-tolerant quantum computation, yet most existing codes rely on local control and stabilizer measurements that are difficult to implem…

quant-ph2025

Compilation Pipeline for Predicting Algorithmic Break-Even in an Early-Fault-Tolerant Surface Code Architecture

Tianyi Hao, Joseph Sullivan, Sivaprasad Omanakuttan +2

Recent experimental progress in realizing surface code on hardware, including demonstrations of break-even logical memory on devices with up to hundreds of physical qubits, has mat…

quant-ph2025

Realization of a Quantum Streaming Algorithm on Long-lived Trapped-ion Qubits

Pradeep Niroula, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Steven Kordonowy +30

Large classical datasets are often processed in the streaming model, with data arriving one item at a time. In this model, quantum algorithms have been shown to offer an unconditio…

quant-ph2025

Certified randomness amplification by dynamically probing remote random quantum states

Minzhao Liu, Pradeep Niroula, Matthew DeCross +49

Cryptography depends on truly unpredictable numbers, but physical sources emit biased or correlated bits. Quantum mechanics enables the amplification of imperfect randomness into n…

quant-ph2025

End-to-end quantum algorithms for tensor problems

Enrico Fontana, Sivaprasad Omanakuttan, Junhyung Lyle Kim +4

We present a comprehensive end-to-end quantum algorithm for tensor problems, including tensor PCA and planted kXOR, that achieves potential superquadratic quantum speedups over cla…

quant-ph2025★ 3 cited

Threshold for Fault-tolerant Quantum Advantage with the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm

Sivaprasad Omanakuttan, Zichang He, Zhiwei Zhang +9

Optimization is often cited as a promising application of quantum computers. However, the low degree of provable quantum speedups has led prior rigorous end-to-end resource analyse…

quant-ph2025

Iceberg Beyond the Tip: Co-Compilation of a Quantum Error Detection Code and a Quantum Algorithm

Yuwei Jin, Zichang He, Tianyi Hao +5

The rapid progress in quantum hardware is expected to make them viable tools for the study of quantum algorithms in the near term. The timeline to useful algorithmic experimentatio…

quant-ph2024

Coherence Preserving Leakage Detection and Cooling in Alkaline Earth Atoms

Sivaprasad Omanakuttan, Vikas Buchemmavari, Michael J. Martin +1

Optically trapped atoms in arrays of optical tweezers have emerged as a powerful platform for quantum information processing given the recent demonstrations of high-fidelity quantu…

quant-ph2024

Quantum error correction-inspired multiparameter quantum metrology

Sivaprasad Omanakuttan, Jonathan A. Gross, T. J. Volkoff

We present a novel strategy for obtaining optimal probe states and measurement schemes in a class of noiseless multiparameter estimation problems with symmetry among the generators…

quant-ph2024

Quantum Computation Using Large Spin Qudits

Sivaprasad Omanakuttan

This dissertation explores quantum computation using qudits encoded into large spins, emphasizing the concept of quantum co-design to harness the unique capabilities of physical pl…

quant-ph2024★ 20 cited

Circuit-based leakage-to-erasure conversion in a neutral atom quantum processor

Matthew N. H. Chow, Vikas Buchemmavari, Sivaprasad Omanakuttan +4

Leakage out of the computational subspace is a major limitation of current state-of-the-art neutral-atom quantum computers and a significant challenge for scalable systems. In a qu…

quant-ph2024★ 29 cited

Fault-tolerant quantum computation using large spin cat-codes

Sivaprasad Omanakuttan, Vikas Buchemmavari, Jonathan A. Gross +2

We construct a fault-tolerant quantum error-correcting protocol based on a qubit encoded in a large spin qudit using a spin-cat code, analogous to the continuous variable cat encod…

quant-ph2023★ 13 cited

Entangling quantum logic gates in neutral atoms via the microwave-driven spin-flip blockade

Vikas Buchemmavari, Sivaprasad Omanakuttan, Yuan-Yu Jau +1

The Rydberg dipole-blockade has emerged as the standard mechanism to induce entanglement between neutral atom qubits. In these protocols, laser fields that couple qubit states to R…

quant-ph2023★ 3 cited

Probing scrambling and operator size distributions using random mixed states and local measurements

Philip Daniel Blocher, Karthik Chinni, Sivaprasad Omanakuttan +1

The dynamical spreading of quantum information through a many-body system, typically called scrambling, is a complex process that has proven to be essential to describe many proper…

quant-ph2023★ 23 cited

Multispin Clifford codes for angular momentum errors in spin systems

Sivaprasad Omanakuttan, Jonathan A. Gross

The physical symmetries of a system play a central role in quantum error correction. In this work we encode a qubit in a collection of systems with angular-momentum symmetry (spins…

quant-ph2022★ 31 cited

Qudit entanglers using quantum optimal control

Sivaprasad Omanakuttan, Anupam Mitra, Eric J. Meier +2

We study the generation of two-qudit entangling quantum logic gates using two techniques in quantum optimal control. We take advantage of both continuous, Lie-algebraic control and…

quant-ph2022★ 27 cited

Scrambling and quantum chaos indicators from long-time properties of operator distributions

Sivaprasad Omanakuttan, Karthik Chinni, Philip Daniel Blocher +1

Scrambling is a key concept in the analysis of nonequilibrium properties of quantum many-body systems. Most studies focus on its characterization via out-of-time-ordered correlatio…

quant-ph2022★ 12 cited

Spin squeezed GKP codes for quantum error correction in atomic ensembles

Sivaprasad Omanakuttan, T. J. Volkoff

GKP codes encode a qubit in displaced phase space combs of a continuous-variable (CV) quantum system and are useful for correcting a variety of high-weight photonic errors. Here we…

quant-ph2022★ 22 cited

Neutral atom entanglement using adiabatic Rydberg dressing

Anupam Mitra, Sivaprasad Omanakuttan, Michael J. Martin +2

We revisit the implementation of a two-qubit entangling gate, the Mølmer-Sørensen gate, using the adiabatic Rydberg dressing paradigm for neutral atoms as studied in [Phys. Rev. A…

hep-ph2021★ 26 cited

Flavor isospin waves in one-dimensional axisymmetric neutrino gases

Huaiyu Duan, Joshua D. Martin, Sivaprasad Omanakuttan

Flavor oscillations can occur on very short spatial and temporal scales in the dense neutrino media in a core-collapse supernova (CCSN) or binary neutron star merger (BNSM) event.…

quant-ph2021★ 45 cited

Quantum Optimal Control of Nuclear Spin Qudecimals in

Sivaprasad Omanakuttan, Anupam Mitra, Michael J. Martin +1

We study the ability to implement unitary maps on states of the nuclear spin in \textsuperscript{87}Sr, a dimensional (qudecimal) Hilbert space, using quantum optima…