Publications

For current research work, consult this page: Alphablocks Research Lab. Copies of most publications can be found in this page.

Older publications in physics can be found on the arXiv. Some representative publications, grouped by research area, can also be found below. A list of publications with a citation count for each paper can be found on the SAO/NASA server.

My PhD thesis (2004)  deals with generalized Aharonov-Bohm phases and the entanglement of topological phase factors.

NETWORK STRUCTURE, QUANTUM DYNAMICS & COMMUNICATION

• "Quantum walks on complex networks with connection instabilities and community structure", Physical Review A 83, 052315 (2011). [here]

• "State transfer in highly connected networks and a quantum Babinet principle", with M.B. Plenio, I. de Vega, S.F. Huelga, Physical Review A 78, 062310 (2008) [here]

• "Control-limited perfect state transfer, quantum stochastic resonance and many-body entangling gate in imperfect qubit registers", with C. Di Franco, M. Paternostro, S. F. Huelga, Physical Review A 77, 062337 (2008) [here]

• "Entanglement dynamics in chains of qubits with noise and disorder", with M.J. Hartmann, S.F. Huelga, M.B. Plenio, New Journal of Physics 9, 79 (2007) [here]

QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITIONS AND TOPOLOGICAL ORDER

• "Recovery of topological order induced by random perturbations", with T.J. Osborne and C. Castelnovo, Physical Review B 83, 075124 (2011) [here]

• "Topological order following a quantum quench", with A. Hamma, W. Zhang, S. Haas, R. Fazio, Physical Review A 80, 060302(R) (2009) [here]

• "Chiral entanglement in triangular lattice models", with J.J. Garcia-Ripoll, N.R. Cooper, J.K. Pachos, Physical Review A 77, 012106 (2008) [here]

QUANTUM SIMULATION AND SUPERCONDUCTING QUBITS

• "Quantum simulator of an open quantum system using superconducting qubits: exciton transport in photosynthetic complexes", with Sarah Mostame, Patrick Rebentrost, and Alán Aspuru-Guzik [here]

• "Using superconducting qubit circuits to engineer exotic lattice systems", with S. Ashhab and F. Nori, Physical Review A 82, 052311 (2010) [here]

• "Fully-connected network of superconducting qubits in a cavity", with S. Ashhab and F. Nori, New Journal of Physics 10, 113020 (2008) [here]

• "Entangled quantum currents in distant mesoscopic Josephson junctions", with C. C. Chong and A. Vourdas, Journal of Physics: Cond. Mat. 16, 9169 (2004) [here]