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Aram W. Harrow

Aram W. Harrow

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Computer Science

D-Index
48
Citations
15363
World Ranking
6034
National Ranking
2716

Overview

Aram W. Harrow is affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Computer Science and Physics and Astronomy, with a strong focus on Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture.

Their work encompasses numerous topics including Quantum Information and Cryptography, Quantum many-body systems, Quantum and electron transport phenomena, Quantum Mechanics and Applications, Random Matrices and Applications, and Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata.

Harrow has contributed to several recent papers, covering a range of themes in quantum computing and physics:

  • Simulating Large Quantum Circuits on a Small Quantum Computer, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Efficient Classical Simulation of Random Shallow 2D Quantum Circuits, 2022, Physical Review X
  • Low-Depth Gradient Measurements Can Improve Convergence in Variational Hybrid Quantum-Classical Algorithms, 2021, Physical Review Letters
  • Approximate Unitary t-Designs by Short Random Quantum Circuits Using Nearest-Neighbor and Long-Range Gates, 2023, Communications in Mathematical Physics
  • Quantum algorithms for jet clustering, 2020, Physical Review D

Harrow frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable co-authors include:

  • Yichen Huang
  • Anurag Anshu
  • Mehdi Soleimanifar
  • John Napp
  • Fernando G. S. L. Brandão

Their publications appear predominantly in venues known for quantum computing and physics research. The most common publication platforms include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Communications in Mathematical Physics
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Physical Review A
  • Physical Review X

Within the subfields of study, Harrow's output emphasizes Artificial Intelligence and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, alongside work involving Computational Theory and Mathematics, Statistics and Probability, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

Best Publications

  • Quantum algorithm for linear systems of equations.

    Aram W. Harrow;Avinatan Hassidim;Seth Lloyd

  • Supervised learning with quantum-enhanced feature spaces.

    Vojtěch Havlíček;Vojtěch Havlíček;Antonio D. Córcoles;Kristan Temme;Aram W. Harrow

  • Quantum computational supremacy

    Aram W. Harrow;Ashley Montanaro

  • Local Random Quantum Circuits are Approximate Polynomial-Designs

    Fernando G. S. L. Brandão;Aram W. Harrow;Michał Horodecki

  • Supervised learning with quantum enhanced feature spaces

    Vojtech Havlicek;Antonio D. Córcoles;Kristan Temme;Aram W. Harrow

  • Quantum Supremacy through the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm

    Edward Farhi;Aram W Harrow

  • Practical scheme for quantum computation with any two-qubit entangling gate.

    Michael J. Bremner;Christopher M. Dawson;Jennifer L. Dodd;Alexei Gilchrist

  • Random Quantum Circuits are Approximate 2-designs

    Aram W. Harrow;Richard A. Low

  • Sample-Optimal Tomography of Quantum States

    Jeongwan Haah;Aram W. Harrow;Zhengfeng Ji;Xiaodi Wu

  • Arbitrarily accurate composite pulse sequences

    Kenneth R. Brown;Aram W. Harrow;Issac L. Chuang

  • The Quantum Reverse Shannon Theorem and Resource Tradeoffs for Simulating Quantum Channels

    Charles H. Bennett;Igor Devetak;Aram W. Harrow;Peter W. Shor

  • Simulating Large Quantum Circuits on a Small Quantum Computer.

    Tianyi Peng;Aram W. Harrow;Maris Ozols;Xiaodi Wu

  • Efficient discrete approximations of quantum gates

    Aram W. Harrow;Benjamin Recht;Isaac L. Chuang

  • Efficient distributed quantum computing

    Robert Beals;Steve Brierley;Oliver Gray;Aram W. Harrow

  • A Resource Framework for Quantum Shannon Theory

    I. Devetak;A.W. Harrow;A.J. Winter

  • Hypercontractivity, sum-of-squares proofs, and their applications

    Boaz Barak;Fernando G.S.L. Brandao;Aram W. Harrow;Jonathan Kelner

  • Quantum Reverse Shannon Theorem

    Charles H. Bennett;Igor Devetak;Aram W. Harrow;Peter W. Shor

  • Superdense coding of quantum states.

    Aram Harrow;Patrick Hayden;Debbie Leung

  • A family of quantum protocols

    I. Devetak;A.W. Harrow;A. Winter

  • On the capacities of bipartite Hamiltonians and unitary gates

    C.H. Bennett;A.W. Harrow;D.W. Leung;J.A. Smolin

  • Quantum algorithm for solving linear systems of equations

    Aram Harrow

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Winter
Andreas Winter University of Cologne
Debbie Leung
Debbie Leung University of Waterloo
Charles H. Bennett
Charles H. Bennett IBM (United States)
Avinatan Hassidim
Avinatan Hassidim Bar-Ilan University
John A. Smolin
John A. Smolin IBM (United States)
Stamatios N. Sotiropoulos
Stamatios N. Sotiropoulos University of Nottingham
Benjamin Recht
Benjamin Recht University of California, Berkeley

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