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Amit Vainsencher is a researcher affiliated with Google in the United States, working primarily in the fields of computer science and physics and astronomy. Their research spans multiple subfields including artificial intelligence, computational theory and mathematics, atomic and molecular physics and optics, as well as condensed matter physics.

Their work focuses on topics related to quantum computing algorithms and architecture, quantum information and cryptography, quantum-dot cellular automata, quantum and electron transport phenomena, and the physics of superconductivity and magnetism.

Among recent publications by Amit Vainsencher are:

  • Demonstrating a Continuous Set of Two-qubit Gates for Near-term Quantum Algorithms, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Observation of separated dynamics of charge and spin in the Fermi-Hubbard model, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors on these works include:

  • Brooks Foxen
  • Charles Neill
  • A. Dunsworth
  • P. Roushan
  • B. Chiaro

Vainsencher has contributed to publications primarily appearing in venues such as Physical Review Letters and arXiv (Cornell University).

Best Publications

  • Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor

    Frank Arute;Kunal Arya;Ryan Babbush;Dave Bacon

  • Supplementary information for "Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor"

    Frank Arute;Kunal Arya;Ryan Babbush;Dave Bacon

  • Superconducting quantum circuits at the surface code threshold for fault tolerance

    R. Barends;J. Kelly;A. Megrant;A. Veitia

  • Scalable Quantum Simulation of Molecular Energies

    Peter O'Malley;Ryan Babbush;Ian Kivlichan;Jonathan Romero

  • State preservation by repetitive error detection in a superconducting quantum circuit

    J. Kelly;R. Barends;A. G. Fowler;A. Megrant

  • Hartree-Fock on a superconducting qubit quantum computer

    Frank Arute;Kunal Arya

  • Hartree-Fock on a superconducting qubit quantum computer

    Frank Arute;Kunal Arya;Ryan Babbush;Dave Bacon

  • Nanomechanical coupling between microwave and optical photons

    Joerg Bochmann;Amit Vainsencher;David D. Awschalom;Andrew N. Cleland

  • Qubit Architecture with High Coherence and Fast Tunable Coupling

    Yu Chen;C. Neill;P. Roushan;N. Leung

  • Scalable Quantum Simulation of Molecular Energies

    P. J. J. O'Malley;R. Babbush;I. D. Kivlichan;J. Romero

  • Digitized adiabatic quantum computing with a superconducting circuit

    R. Barends;A. Shabani;L. Lamata;J. Kelly

  • A blueprint for demonstrating quantum supremacy with superconducting qubits.

    C. Neill;P. Roushan;K. Kechedzhi;K. Kechedzhi;S. Boixo

  • Spectroscopic signatures of localization with interacting photons in superconducting qubits

    P. Roushan;C. Neill;J. Tangpanitanon;V. M. Bastidas

  • Quantum approximate optimization of non-planar graph problems on a planar superconducting processor

    Matthew P. Harrigan;Kevin J. Sung;Kevin J. Sung;Matthew Neeley;Kevin J. Satzinger

  • Fast accurate state measurement with superconducting qubits.

    Evan Jeffrey;Daniel Sank;J. Y. Mutus;T. C. White

  • Chiral ground-state currents of interacting photons in a synthetic magnetic field

    Pedram Roushan;Charles Neill;Anthony Megrant;Yu Chen

  • Quantum Approximate Optimization of Non-Planar Graph Problems on a Planar Superconducting Processor

    Frank Arute;Kunal Arya;Ryan Babbush;Dave Bacon

  • Computing prime factors with a Josephson phase qubit quantum processor

    Erik Lucero;R. Barends;Y. Chen;J. Kelly

  • A blueprint for demonstrating quantum supremacy with superconducting qubits

    C. Neill;P. Roushan;K. Kechedzhi;S. Boixo

  • Digital quantum simulation of fermionic models with a superconducting circuit.

    R. Barends;L. Lamata;J. Kelly;J. Kelly;L. García-Álvarez

  • Spectral signatures of many-body localization with interacting photons

    P. Roushan;C. Neill;J. Tangpanitanon;V. M. Bastidas

Frequent Co-Authors

John M. Martinis
John M. Martinis University of California, Santa Barbara
Rami Barends
Rami Barends Google (United States)
Daniel Sank
Daniel Sank Google (United States)
Andrew Cleland
Andrew Cleland University of Chicago
Austin G. Fowler
Austin G. Fowler Google (United States)
Alexander N. Korotkov
Alexander N. Korotkov Google (United States)
Hartmut Neven
Hartmut Neven Google (United States)
Chris Palmstrom
Chris Palmstrom University of California, Santa Barbara
David D. Awschalom
David D. Awschalom Argonne National Laboratory

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