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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fritz London Memorial Prize, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
  • 1997 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his experimental investigations into the fundamental quantum behavior of lowtemperature electronic devices

Overview

John M. Martinis is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on quantum computing and related physical phenomena, contributing extensively to the fields of computer science and physics and astronomy.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Computer Science
  • Physics and Astronomy

Within these fields, John M. Martinis has contributed to several subfields, notably:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Radiation
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Key research topics covered by their work are:

  • Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
  • Quantum Information and Cryptography
  • Quantum and electron transport phenomena
  • Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism
  • Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies
  • Particle Detector Development and Performance
  • Nuclear Physics and Applications

John M. Martinis has published several papers in prominent venues, with notable recent publications including:

  • Demonstrating a Continuous Set of Two-qubit Gates for Near-term Quantum Algorithms, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Massively parallel probabilistic computing with sparse Ising machines, 2022, Nature Electronics
  • Resolving catastrophic error bursts from cosmic rays in large arrays of superconducting qubits, 2021, Nature Physics
  • Saving superconducting quantum processors from decay and correlated errors generated by gamma and cosmic rays, 2021, npj Quantum Information
  • Observation of separated dynamics of charge and spin in the Fermi-Hubbard model, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature Physics
  • npj Quantum Information
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Nature Electronics

Recurring co-authors associated with John M. Martinis's research are:

  • Paul V. Klimov
  • A. Megrant
  • J. Kelly
  • Hartmut Neven
  • Brooks Foxen

The scientist has received awards recognizing their contributions, including the Fritz London Memorial Prize from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics in 2014. They were named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1997, with a citation highlighting their experimental investigations into the fundamental quantum behavior of low-temperature electronic devices.

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

  • Surface codes: Towards practical large-scale quantum computation

    Austin G. Fowler;Matteo Mariantoni;John M. Martinis;Andrew N. Cleland

  • Quantum ground state and single-phonon control of a mechanical resonator

    A. D. O’Connell;M. Hofheinz;M. Ansmann;Radoslaw C. Bialczak

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

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

  • Rabi oscillations in a large Josephson-junction qubit.

    John M. Martinis;Sae Woo Nam;Jose A. Aumentado;C Urbina

  • Characterizing quantum supremacy in near-term devices

    Sergio Boixo;Sergei V. Isakov;Vadim N. Smelyanskiy;Ryan Babbush

  • 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

  • Synthesizing arbitrary quantum states in a superconducting resonator

    Max Hofheinz;H. Wang;M. Ansmann;Radoslaw C. Bialczak

  • Decoherence in Josephson qubits from dielectric loss.

    John M. Martinis;K. B. Cooper;R. McDermott;Matthias Steffen

  • Evidence for quantum annealing with more than one hundred qubits

    Sergio Boixo;Troels F. Rønnow;Sergei V. Isakov;Zhihui Wang

  • Coherent Josephson qubit suitable for scalable quantum integrated circuits.

    R. Barends;J. Kelly;A. Megrant;D. Sank

  • Hartree-Fock on a superconducting qubit quantum computer

    Frank Arute;Kunal Arya

  • Experimental tests for the quantum behavior of a macroscopic degree of freedom: The phase difference across a Josephson junction

    John M. Martinis;Michel H. Devoret;John Clarke

  • Defining and detecting quantum speedup

    Troels F. Rønnow;Zhihui Wang;Joshua Job;Sergio Boixo;Sergio Boixo

  • Measurement of the Entanglement of Two Superconducting Qubits via State Tomography

    Matthias Steffen;M. Ansmann;Radoslaw C. Bialczak;Nadav Katz

  • Generation of Fock states in a superconducting quantum circuit.

    Max Hofheinz;E. M. Weig;E. M. Weig;M. Ansmann;Radoslaw C. Bialczak

  • Scalable Quantum Simulation of Molecular Energies

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

  • Decoherence in josephson phase qubits from junction resonators.

    R. W. Simmonds;K. M. Lang;D. A. Hite;S. Nam

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Sank
Daniel Sank Google (United States)
Rami Barends
Rami Barends Google (United States)
Amit Vainsencher
Amit Vainsencher 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)
Kent D. Irwin
Kent D. Irwin Stanford University
Gene C. Hilton
Gene C. Hilton National Institute of Standards and Technology
Hartmut Neven
Hartmut Neven Google (United States)
Sae Woo Nam
Sae Woo Nam National Institute of Standards and Technology

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