Teaching

MSQC 615 Quantum Thermodynamics – Fall 2025

This course introduces quantum thermodynamic concepts and techniques relevant to quantum computing and quantum computing devices. Topics include a review of axiomatic thermodynamics, connections between information and thermodynamics, quantum information engines, dynamics in open systems, decoherence, dissipation, and quantum resource theory.

MSQC 614 Quantum Information Theory – Spring 2026

Quantum information theory synthesizes three major themes: quantum physics, computer science, and information theory. At the core of information theory lies the classical work of Claude E. Shannon, which we review in this course. We then introduce quantum information sources, quantum operations, and quantum tomography, and study three problems related to classical Shannon’s theorems and subsequent extension to quantum computing. These involve compressing quantum information, transmitting both classical and quantum information through noisy quantum channels, and quantifying, characterizing, transforming, and utilizing quantum entanglement.

I had a great time at the APS Global Physics Summit, giving my talk on Fourier analysis and Hamiltonian learning for extracting Fermi-Hubbard model parameters from atomistic electronic structure calculations of Si:P devices.

I participated in the 2023 Silicon Quantum Electronics Workshop in Kyoto, Japan, with a talk on the atomistic tight-binding Hartree-Fock electronic structure formalism for dopant arrays in silicon. The full program is available here.

I am pleased to announce that I have been honored with the 2022 PML Distinguished Associate Award.

I spent ten days at the Institute of Physics at the Nicolaus Copernicus University, invited by Prof. Michał Zieliński, working and discussing joint efforts in the many-body theory of Si:P devices. I also was invited to participate in the “Nanoday meeting” (http://nanoday.fizyka.umk.pl/) with a talk.

Our paper describing GaSb band-structure models for electron density determinations from Raman measurements was accepted at J. Appl. Phys.

Viva las Vegas! I gave a talk on my recent results on SSH quantum simulations in P-doped silicon devices at the 2023 APS March meeting

My talk on the electronic structure of silicon nanostructures with a few phosphorus atoms, presented at the 2021 Silicon quantum electronics workshop, is available on Youtube at the following link: https://youtu.be/jv9b_gdJU3M

Participated virtually in the workshop in Nonequilibrium Phenomena, Nonadiabatic Dynamics and Spectroscopy in Telluride! with a talk on the electronic structure and transport in silicon nanostructures for quantum simulations and quantum computing

Excited to participate in the Second Colombian Meeting on Many-Body Quantum Simulations with a talk on quantum simulations with P-doped silicon nanostructures.

I will participate in the 2021 virtual APS march meeting and present our work on the electronic structure and transport properties of P-doped silicon nanotransistors. https://bit.ly/2N2e7aC

My presentation on the theory and simulation of silicon-based few atom transistors will be available on-demand at the upcoming virtual MRS spring/fall 2020 conference.