JQI

Over the past 6 years, a series of works have shown unconditional separations between the computational power of constant depth quantum and classical circuits. This talk will begin with a review of these circuit classes and separations. Then we'll discuss some tips and tricks -- essentially circuit identities -- which are useful when constructing constant depth quantum circuits with superclassical computational power.

Quantum query complexity is a fundamental model in quantum computation, which captures known quantum algorithms such as Grover's search algorithm, and also enables rigorous comparison between classical and quantum models of computation. The polynomial method has become one of the main paradigms for proving lower bounds on quantum query complexity.

A spontaneous symmetry-breaking order is conventionally described by a tensor-product wave-function of some few-body clusters. We discuss a type of symmetry-breaking orders, dubbed entanglement-enabled symmetry-breaking orders, which cannot be realized by any tensor-product state. Given a symmetry breaking pattern, we propose a criterion to diagnose if the symmetry-breaking order is entanglement-enabled, by examining the compatibility between the symmetries and the tensor-product description.

Dissertation Committee Chair: Mohammad Hafezi

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Abstract: I will discuss mesoscopic topological superconductors that can be used to realize quantum impurity models with orthogonal or symplectic symmetries. The first one uses a topological superconductor that hosts many (M>2) Majorana zero modes. Such an "M-Majorana island" coupled to normal metal leads realizes a novel type of topological Kondo effect, where the effective impurity "spin" transforms under the orthogonal group SO(M) stemming from the non-local topological ground state degeneracy of the island.

Strong light-matter coupling in optical cavities can alter the dynamics of molecular and material systems resulting in polaritonic excitation spectra and modified reaction pathways. For strongly coupled photon modes close in energy to nuclear vibrations the Cavity Born Oppenheimer Approximation (CBOA) in the context of quantum-electrodynamical density functional theory (QEDFT) has been demonstrated to be an appropriate description of the coupled light-matter system.

Abstract: We construct a Pauli stabilizer model for every Abelian topological order that admits a gapped boundary in two spatial dimensions. Our primary example is a Pauli stabilizer model on four-dimensional qudits that belongs to the double semion (DS) phase of matter. The DS stabilizer Hamiltonian is constructed by condensing an emergent boson in a Z4 toric code. We show that the construction of the DS stabilizer Hamiltonian generalizes to all twisted quantum doubles (TQDs) with Abelian anyons.

Abstract: Understanding the Hubbard model is crucial for investigating various quantum many-body states and its fermionic and bosonic versions have been largely realized separately. Recently, transition metal dichalcogenides heterobilayers have emerged as a promising platform for simulating the rich physics of the Hubbard model. In this work, we explore the interplay between fermionic and bosonic populations, using a WS₂/WSe₂ heterobilayer device that hosts this hybrid particle density.