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Scott Aaronson
aaronson@cs.utexas.edu

I am a theorist. I’m interested in a variety of topics including quantum algorithms and complexity theory, quantum supremacy experiments, foundations of quantum mechanics, quantum money, learning of quantum states, and connections between quantum information and quantum gravity.


Institution: University of Texas at Austin
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Jason Alicea
aliceaj@caltech.edu

I am a condensed matter theorist interested in revealing exotic phenomena that emerge from the interplay between topology and quantum mechanics.


Institution: Caltech
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John Bollinger
john.bollinger@nist.gov

I am an experimentalist. I am interested in quantum information and metrology, focusing on work with trapped ions


Institution: NIST
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Fernando Brandao
FGSLBRANDAO@GMAIL.COM

I am a theorist interested in quantum information and quantum computing

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Institution: Caltech
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Matthias Christandl
christand@math.ku.dkl

I am a theorist interested in quantum information theory.


Institution: University of Copenhagen
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Toby Cubitt
t.cubitt@ucl.ac.uk

In my research, I use quantum information theory to tackle some of the challenging fundamental open questions in quantum many-body and condensed matter physics.


Institution: University College London

David DiVincenzo
d.divincenzo@fz-juelich.de

I am a theorist. I am interested in Quantum Computing and Quantum Information


Institution: Jülich Research Center

Daniel Gottesman
dgottesman@perimeterinstitute.ca

Quantum error correction, fault tolerance, and complexity. (Theorist)


Institution: Perimeter Institute
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Jeongwan Haah
jwhaah@microsoft.com

Quantum information, Quantum Error Correction, Topological order (Theorist)


Institution: Microsoft Research
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Manny Knill
knill@boulder.nist.gov

Quantum information. I am a theorist.


Institution: NIST

John Martinis
jmartinis@google.com

I am an experimentalist interested in quantum computing.


Institution: Google and University of California, Santa Barbara
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Cindy Regal
regal@colorado.edu

I am an experimentalist interested in atomic and quantum physics, optomechanics


Institution: University of Colorado
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Renato Renner
renner@ethz.ch

I am a theorist interested in the foundations of quantum mechanics and quantum information theory


Institution: ETH Zurich
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Brian Swingle
bswingle@umd.edu

Quantum information, quantum matter, and quantum gravity. (Theorist)


Institution: University of Maryland, College Park

Barbara Terhal
B.M.Terhal@tudelft.nl

Quantum error correction and its implementation, power of quantum computers (Theorist)


Institution: QuTech, Delft University of Technology

Matthias Troyer
mtroyer@microsoft.com

I am a theorist interested in Quantum computing from qubit design to quantum algorithms


Institution: Microsoft
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Frank Verstraete
fverstraete@gmail.com

Quantum entanglement, quantum many body physics, Tensor Networks (Theorist)


Institution: Ghent University

Jun Ye
ye@jila.colorado.edu

I am an experimentalist. I am interested in light-matter interactions in the quantum regime.


Institution: JILA/NIST/University of Colorado
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Deanna Abrams
deanna.margo@gmail.com

Circuit quantum electrodynamics. I am an experimentalist.


Institution: Rigetti University

Mirko Amico
miamico@citytech.cuny.edu

Quantum entanglement of superconducting qubits. I am a theorist.


Institution: CUNY Graduate Center
Advisor: Roman Ya. Kezerashvili

Mark Arildsen
marildsen@gmail.com

I am a theorist. I am interested in understanding the entanglement spectra of two-dimensional quantum systems through the bulk-boundary correspondence, as well as the application of tensor network theory to anyon chains.


Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara
Advisor: Andreas Ludwig

Tanja Behrle
tbehrle@phys.ethz.ch

I am an experimentalist. I am a PhD student working on trapped ion quantum information processing with previous research experience on superconducting quantum devices.


Institution: ETH Zurich
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Jonathan Home
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Alexander Bogatskiy
bogatsky@uchicago.edu

Mathematical Physics, Random Matrices, Hydrodynamics, Geometry and Topology in Physics, Quantum Hall Effect. I am a theorist.


Institution: University Of Chicago
Advisor: Paul Wiegmann

Thomas Bohdanowicz
thom@caltech.edu

I am a theorist interested in quantum Hamiltonian complexity, topological quantum fault-tolerance and error correction, and holography, but am also eager to learn new ways of applying quantum information techniques to condensed matter physics.


Institution: California Institute of Technology
Advisor: Fernando Brandão

Artem Borin
artem.borin@unige.ch

Mesoscopics (QH edges, Quantum dots, quantum transport), graphene, application of machine learning to many-body physics, entanglement dynamics. I am a theorist.


Institution: University of Geneva
Advisor: Eugene Sukhorukov

Benjamin Bourassa
benjamin.bourassa@usherbrooke.ca

Classical/Quantum error correction and tensor networks. I am a theorist.


Institution: Université de Sherbrooke
Advisor: David Poulin

Megan Briggeman
megan.briggeman@levylab.org

Low temperature transport of 1D superlattice structures at an oxide heterointerface. I am an experimentalist.


Institution: University of Pittsburgh
Advisor: Jeremy Levy
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Amos Chan
amos.chan@physics.ox.ac.uk

Quantum dynamics out of equilibrium, disordered systems, quantum chaos, entanglement entropy, random matrix theory. I am a theorist.


Institution: University of Oxford
Advisor: John Chalker
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Yevheniia Cheipesh
yevheniia.cheipesh@stud.uni-goettingen.de

I am a theorist. I am interested in the many-body systems as models for quantum memory and quantum computations.


Institution: University of Gottingen
Advisor: Prof. Stefan Kehrein

Yanzhu Chen
yanzhu.chen@stonybrook.edu

I am a theorist. I am interested in quantum information and quantum computation in general, and in particular the idea of topological order in quantum computing.


Institution: Stony Brook University SUNY
Advisor: Tzu-Chieh Wei

Anirban Ch Narayan Chowdhury
anchowdhury@outlook.com

I am a theorist. My primary research interest is in quantum algorithms that can achieve superior performance over known classical algorithms, in particular algorithms for simulating physical systems and providing speed-up of Monte Carlo and Markov chain methods.


Institution: University of New Mexico
Advisor: Rolando Diego Somma

Su-Kuan Chu
skchu@umd.edu

Tensor Network, Strongly Correlated System, AMO system. I am a theorist.


Institution: University of Maryland: College Park
Advisor: Alexey Gorshkov

Jonathan Curtis
jon.curtis.94@gmail.com

My interests include disordered and chaotic materials, topologically ordered states, hydrodynamics and emergent gravity, and strongly correlated systems. I am a theorist.


Institution: University of Maryland: College Park
Advisor: Victor Galitski

Ceren Burcak Dag
cbdag@umich.edu

I am a theorist. I study the dynamical properties of quantum many-body systems in the context of ultracold atoms. I’m also interested in quantum thermodynamics.


Institution: University of Michigan
Advisor: Luming Duan

Christoph Dittel
christoph.dittel@uibk.ac.at

Many-body physics, particle interference, interactions, open quantum systems, decoherence, boson-sampling, photonics. I am a theorist.


Institution: University of Innsbruck
Advisor: Gregor Weihs and Hans J. Briegel

Arpit Dua
arpit.dua@yale.edu

Topological Quantum Computing; Quantum Error Correction; Classification of Topological Phases. I am a theorist.


Institution: Yale University
Advisor: Liang Jiang

Andrew Yang Guo
guoa@umd.edu

I am a theorist. I am interested in quantum many-body dynamics, thermalization, and tensor networks.


Institution: University of Maryland: College Park
Advisor: Alexey Gorshkov and Brian Swingle

Connor Hann
connor.hann@yale.edu

I am a theorist interested in fault-tolerant quantum computation and quantum machine learning, with a particular focus on implementations for circuit QED systems.


Institution: Yale University
Advisor: Liang Jiang

Sabrina Hong
sabhong@gmail.com

Building high performance quantum computers (the hardware to realize it and the algorithms to benchmark it). I am an experimentalist.


Institution: Rigetti University

Kiel Howe
khowe@fnal.gov

Quantum simulation of field theories, applications of quantum algorithms to high energy physics, and quantum gravity inspired phenomenology. I am a theorist. 


Institution: Fermilab

Olivia Lanes
otl1@pitt.edu

Experimental superconducting quantum information, specifically, quantum-limited qubit read-out and quantum measurement of 2D materials. I am an experimentalist.


Institution: University of Pittsburgh
Advisor: Michael Hatridge
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Nicholas LaRacuente
laracue2@illinois.edu

Operator algebra approach to asymmetry, capacity, coherence, complexity and uncertainty relations. I am a theorist.


Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Advisor: Marius Junge

Jong Yeon Lee
jlee12@g.harvard.edu

I am a theorist interested in the following: tensor network approach to understand condensed matter systems, symmetry enriched topological orders, and 2+1D CFT at quantum critical points.


Institution: Harvard University
Advisor: Ashvin Vishwanath

Joonho Lee
jlee7@berkeley.edu

I am a theorist. I am interested in developing novel ab-initio quantum chemistry approaches to strongly correlated systems such as coupled-cluster methods.


Institution: University of California: Berkeley
Advisor: Martin Head-Gordon

Jessica Lemieux
jessica.a.lemieux@usherbrooke.ca

Study, design and implementation of quantum algorithms. I am a theorist.


Institution: Université de Sherbrooke
Advisor: David Poulin

Jianqiang Li
lij36@vcu.edu

Complexity theory, Quantum information theory, Approximate algorithm for Local Hamiltonian problem or Partition function. I am a theorist.


Institution: Virginia Commonwealth Univ
Advisor: Sevag Gharibian

Stephanie Matern
sm381@st-andrews.ac.uk
My research focuses on how many-body memory effects influence the dynamical behavior of qubit states coupled to an environment. I am a theorist.

Institution: University of St Andrews
Advisor: Dr. Bernd Braunecker

Bradley Mitchell
bradmitchell@berkeley.edu

I am an experimentalist. I am interested in developing useful algorithms for near-term quantum devices.


Institution: University of California: Berkeley
Advisor: Irfan Siddiqi

Amir MohammadAghaei
amoha008@ucr.edu

I am interested in Tensor Network representations of Quantum states and their application in classification of phases of matter. I am a theorist.


Institution: University of California: Riverside
Advisor: Kirill Shtengel

Eric Morgan
eric@caltech.edu

I am a theorist. I am interested in entanglement structure, tensor networks, topological order, random matrix theory and holography.


Institution: Caltech
Advisor: Fernando Brandao

Maria Mucci
mmm242@pitt.edu

I am an experimentalist interested in increasing efficiency of quantum measurement through superconducting circuits.


Institution: University of Pittsburgh
Advisor: Dr. Michael Hatridge

Chaitanya Murthy
cm@physics.ucsb.edu

I am a condensed matter theorist interested in (among other things) Luttinger liquids, topological quantum computation and the physics of thermalization.


Institution: University of California: Santa Barbara
Advisor: Chetan Nayak, Mark Srednicki (co-advised)

Khadijeh "Sona" Najafi
kn266@georgetown.edu

I am a theorist my interests are investigating Correlation and entanglement in quantum spin chains/ Developing new algorithms for calculating finite temperature Greens function in quantum computer


Institution: Georgetown University
Advisor: Jim Freericks

John Napp
napp@mit.edu

I study quantum algorithms, complexity, and information, and have particular interests in Hamiltonian complexity and classical simulations of quantum systems. I am a theorist.


Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Advisor: Aram Harrow

Kyungjoo Noh
kyungjoo.noh@yale.edu

I am a theorist. I am interested in the theory of quantum communication, error correction and complexity theory.


Institution: Yale University
Advisor: Liang Jiang
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Silvia Pappalardi
spappala@sissa.it

Quantum information and many-body systems, Non-equilibrium dynamics of closed quantum systems, Multipartite entanglement in condensed matter. I am a theorist.


Institution: SISSA, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
Advisor: Rosario Fazio, Alessandro Silva

Abhishodh Prakash
abhishodh@gmail.com

I am a theorist. I am interested in understanding quantum many-body systems in and out of equilibrium and their use for quantum information processing. I am particularly interested in the role global symmetries play in understanding such systems.


Institution: Stony Brook University
Advisor: Tzu-Chieh Wei
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Pablo Sala
pablo.sala@tum.de

I am currently interested in gauge theory formulations for Condensed Matter systems and the study of their dynamical properties, emergent phenomena etc. I am a theorist.


Institution: Technical University of Munich
Advisor: Frank Pollmann

Frank Armin Schindler
frank.schindler@uzh.ch

I am a theorist. I am working on topological phases and machine learning applications to condensed matter.


Institution: University of Zurich
Advisor: Titus Neupert
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James Seddon
james.seddon.15@ucl.ac.uk

I am a theorist, interested in schemes for classically simulating quantum circuits, in particular for applications in quantum chemistry, resource theories for quantum computational advantage, quantum circuit optimization, and the stabilizer formalism.


Institution: University College London
Advisor: Dr. Earl Campbell / Prof. Dan Browne

Hassan Shapourian
hassan88@uchicago.edu

I am a theorist interested in topological invariants of symmetry protected topological phases, entanglement entropies, and projective construction of many-body states.


Institution: University of Chicago
Advisor: Shinsei Ryu

Kunal Sharma
ksharm7@lsu.edu

Quantum information theory and entanglement theory, quantum Shannon theory, fault-tolerant quantum computation, quantum many-body physics, quantum algorithms, connection of quantum information theory to thermodynamics, statistical mechanics and resource theories, quantum information with continuous variables. I am a theorist. 


Institution: Louisiana St Univ Baton Rouge
Advisor: Mark M. Wilde

Ashmeet Singh
ashmeet@caltech.edu

I am a theorist interested in foundational questions in quantum mechanics, quantum gravity and emergent spacetime.


Institution: Caltech
Advisor: Sean Carroll

Kevin Slagle
kjslag@gmail.com

I am a theorist interested in topological order, fractons, quantum information, time crystals, neural/tensor networks, …


Institution: Caltech
Advisor: Cenke Xu

Xueyang Song
xsong@g.harvard.edu

I am a theorist. I’m interested in topological states of matter, quantum magnetism and want to learn more about quantum information.


Institution: Harvard University
Advisor: Ashvin Vishwanath

Nathanan Tantivasadakarn
ntantivasadakarn@g.harvard.edu

Topological Phases of Matter. I am a theorist.


Institution: Harvard University
Advisor: Ashvin Vishwanath

Alexandra Thomson
alex.r.thomson@gmail.com

Quantum criticality, spin liquids, disordered field theories, applications of dualities, quantum simulation. I am a theorist.


Institution: Harvard University
Advisor: Subir Sachdev

Cong Minh Tran
minhtran@umd.edu

I am a theorist. My research is focused on generalization of Lieb-Robinson bound, verification of quantum devices, and Bell monogamy relations.


Institution: University of Maryland: College Park
Advisor: Alexey Gorshkov and Jacob Taylor

Maxime Tremblay
maxime.tremblay9@usherbrooke.ca

Relation between tensor networks and coding theory. I am a theorist.


Institution: Université de Sherbrooke
Advisor: David Poulin

Robijn Vanhove
robijn.vanhove@ugent.be

I am a theorist interested in tensor networks for topological order and statistical mechanics, anomalies in condensed matter physics.


Institution: University Of Ghent
Advisor: Professor Frank Verstraete

Jayameenakshi Venkatraman
jaya.venkat@yale.edu

I am an experimentalist. I’m interested in analyzing the hamiltonians of various quantum circuits and furthermore, realizing them experimentally and exploiting rich physics hidden in circuits.


Institution: yale University
Advisor: Michel Devoret

Carrie Weidner
cweidner0@gmail.com

I am an experimentalist. I am interested in quantum information and atom interferometry, especially in the context of cold and ultracold atom physics.


Institution: University of Colorado Boulder
Advisor: Dana Z. Anderson

Jiaxin Wu
wu.2339@osu.edu

I am a theorist. I am interested in quantum entanglement, topological phases of matters, and cold atoms.


Institution: Ohio State University
Advisor: Tin-Lun Ho
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Yukai Wu
wyukai@umich.edu

Physical implementation of quantum computing and theory of quantum error correction. I am a theorist.


Institution: University of Michigan
Advisor: Luming Duan

Charles Xu
cxu3@caltech.edu

I am a theorist. I work at the interface of quantum information and many-body physics, with a particular focus on foundations of statistical mechanics, equilibration/thermalization and the emergence of classicality.


Institution: Caltech
Advisor: Fernando Brandao

Bin Yan
binyan@me.com

Quantum measure theory; entanglement theory; many-body physics. I am a theorist.


Institution: Purdue University
Advisor: Chris H. Greene

Zhicheng Yang
yangzc@bu.edu

I am a theorist. My research interests include quantum entanglement and quantum dynamics in many-body systems, quantum computations, and tensor network methods.


Institution: Boston University
Advisor: Claudio Chamon

Sina Zeytinoglu
zsina@phys.ethz.ch

I am a condensed matter theorist with a strong interest in optical control of quantum correlations.


Institution: ETH Zurich
Advisor: Atac Imamoglu/ Sebastian Huber
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Ruixing Zhang
rxz151@psu.edu

My research interests mainly focus on the topological phases of matter. I am a theorist.


Institution: Pennsylvania State University
Advisor: Chaoxing Liu
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Mengzhen Zhang
mengzhen.zhang@yale.edu

I’m a theorist interested in quantum information, quantum computation, and foundations of quantum mechanics.


Institution: Yale University
Advisor: Liang Jiang

Tian Zhang
z.tian94@gmail.com

Quantum information in spacetime and quantum gravity. I am a theorist.


Institution: University of Oxford
Advisor: Vlatko Vedral

Sisi Zhou
sisi.zhou@yale.edu

I am interested in quantum metrology and quantum error correction. I am a theorist.


Institution: Yale University
Advisor: Liang Jiang

Hengyun (Harry) Zhou
hzhou@g.harvard.edu

I am an experimentalist, working on diamond spin centers as a platform to study many-body physics, and as a tool for various metrology tasks.


Institution: Harvard University
Advisor: Mikhail Lukin

Jingfang Zhou
zhou@qi.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Source of quantum advantage in quantum computer (MBQC, contextuality, topological phases). I am a theorist.


Institution: University of Tokyo
Advisor: Masato Koashi

Guanyu Zhu
gzhu123@umd.edu

I am a theorist. I have research experience in quantum error corrections, topological codes, topological orders, entanglement in many-body systems, superconducting qubits and circuit-QED, near-term quantum algorithms and measurment protocols, quantum computation and simulations with AMO systems.


Institution: University of Maryland
Advisor: Jens Koch

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Liang Jiang
liang.jiang@yale.edu

I am a theorist interested in quantum optics, condensed matter physics, and quantum information science.


Institution: Yale University
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David Poulin
david.poulin@usherbrooke.ca

I am a theorist. I am interested in fault tolerant quantum computation


Institution: Université de Sherbrooke
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John Preskill
preskill@theory.caltech.edu

I am a theoretical physicist interested in quantum computing, quantum matter, and quantum gravity. 


Institution: Caltech
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Leo Radzihovsky
radzihov@colorado.edu

Radzihovsky’s theoretical research interests span a broad spectrum of classical and quantum condensed matter. These range from entropy-dominated liquid crystals, colloids, membranes, rubber and other “soft” matter to quantum matter, such as superconductors, magnets, degenerate atomic gases, quantum Hall and other topological states of matter. He aims to understand the nature of phases and phase transitions exhibited by these systems, with the unifying theme of collective universal behavior that emerges at long scales and low energies, driven by a combination of strong interactions, fluctuations, and/or local heterogeneity.


Institution: University of Colorado at Boulder
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Ana Maria Rey
arey@jilau1.colorado.edu

I am a theorists working at the  interface between atomic, molecular and optical physics, condensed matter physics and quantum information science.


Institution: JILA/NIST/University of Colorado
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Graeme Smith
graeme.smith@colorado.edu

Quantum Shannon theory, quantum computing, error correction. I am a theorist.


Institution: JILA and CU Boulder
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