Bryan W. K. Woo
Bryan Woo earned his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego. He then went on to earn a M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Riverside.
Post-university, Bryan worked on government projects at a startup before contracting for Google and eventually converting to full-time.
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Visualizing dynamics of charges and strings in (2 + 1)D lattice gauge theories
Tyler Cochran
Bernhard Jobst
Yuri Lensky
Gaurav Gyawali
Norhan Eassa
Melissa Will
Aaron Szasz
Dmitry Abanin
Rajeev Acharya
Laleh Beni
Trond Andersen
Markus Ansmann
Frank Arute
Kunal Arya
Abe Asfaw
Juan Atalaya
Brian Ballard
Alexandre Bourassa
Michael Broughton
David Browne
Brett Buchea
Bob Buckley
Tim Burger
Nicholas Bushnell
Anthony Cabrera
Juan Campero
Hung-Shen Chang
Jimmy Chen
Benjamin Chiaro
Jahan Claes
Agnetta Cleland
Josh Cogan
Roberto Collins
Paul Conner
William Courtney
Alex Crook
Ben Curtin
Sayan Das
Laura De Lorenzo
Paul Donohoe
ILYA Drozdov
Andrew Dunsworth
Alec Eickbusch
Aviv Elbag
Mahmoud Elzouka
Vinicius Ferreira
Ebrahim Forati
Austin Fowler
Brooks Foxen
Suhas Ganjam
Robert Gasca
Élie Genois
William Giang
Dar Gilboa
Raja Gosula
Alejo Grajales Dau
Dietrich Graumann
Alex Greene
Steve Habegger
Monica Hansen
Sean Harrington
Paula Heu
Oscar Higgott
Jeremy Hilton
Robert Huang
Ashley Huff
Bill Huggins
Cody Jones
Chaitali Joshi
Pavol Juhas
Hui Kang
Amir Karamlou
Kostyantyn Kechedzhi
Trupti Khaire
Bryce Kobrin
Alexander Korotkov
Fedor Kostritsa
John Mark Kreikebaum
Vlad Kurilovich
Dave Landhuis
Tiano Lange-Dei
Brandon Langley
Kim Ming Lau
Justin Ledford
Kenny Lee
Loick Le Guevel
Wing Li
Alexander Lill
Will Livingston
Aditya Locharla
Daniel Lundahl
Aaron Lunt
Sid Madhuk
Ashley Maloney
Salvatore Mandra
Leigh Martin
Orion Martin
Cameron Maxfield
Seneca Meeks
Anthony Megrant
Reza Molavi
Sebastian Molina
Shirin Montazeri
Ramis Movassagh
Charles Neill
Michael Newman
Murray Ich Nguyen
Chia Ni
Kris Ottosson
Alex Pizzuto
Rebecca Potter
Orion Pritchard
Ganesh Ramachandran
Matt Reagor
David Rhodes
Gabrielle Roberts
Kannan Sankaragomathi
Henry Schurkus
Mike Shearn
Aaron Shorter
Vladimir Shvarts
Vlad Sivak
Spencer Small
Clarke Smith
Sofia Springer
George Sterling
Jordan Suchard
Alex Sztein
Doug Thor
Mert Torunbalci
Abeer Vaishnav
Justin Vargas
Sergey Vdovichev
Guifre Vidal
Catherine Vollgraff Heidweiller
Steven Waltman
Shannon Wang
Brayden Ware
Kristi Wong
Cheng Xing
Jamie Yao
Ping Yeh
Bicheng Ying
Juhwan Yoo
Grayson Young
Yaxing Zhang
Ningfeng Zhu
Yu Chen
Vadim Smelyanskiy
Adam Gammon-Smith
Frank Pollmann
Michael Knap
Nature, 642 (2025), 315–320
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Lattice gauge theories (LGTs) can be used to understand a wide range of phenomena, from elementary particle scattering in high-energy physics to effective descriptions of many-body interactions in materials. Studying dynamical properties of emergent phases can be challenging, as it requires solving many-body problems that are generally beyond perturbative limits. Here we investigate the dynamics of local excitations in a LGT using a two-dimensional lattice of superconducting qubits. We first construct a simple variational circuit that prepares low-energy states that have a large overlap with the ground state; then we create charge excitations with local gates and simulate their quantum dynamics by means of a discretized time evolution. As the electric field coupling constant is increased, our measurements show signatures of transitioning from deconfined to confined dynamics. For confined excitations, the electric field induces a tension in the string connecting them. Our method allows us to experimentally image string dynamics in a (2+1)D LGT, from which we uncover two distinct regimes inside the confining phase: for weak confinement, the string fluctuates strongly in the transverse direction, whereas for strong confinement, transverse fluctuations are effectively frozen. We also demonstrate a resonance condition at which dynamical string breaking is facilitated. Our LGT implementation on a quantum processor presents a new set of techniques for investigating emergent excitations and string dynamics.
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Visualizing Dynamics of Charges and Strings in (2+1)D Lattice Gauge Theories
Tyler Cochran
Bernhard Jobst
Yuri Lensky
Gaurav Gyawali
Norhan Eassa
Melissa Will
Aaron Szasz
Dmitry Abanin
Rajeev Acharya
Laleh Beni
Trond Andersen
Markus Ansmann
Frank Arute
Kunal Arya
Abe Asfaw
Juan Atalaya
Brian Ballard
Alexandre Bourassa
Michael Broughton
David Browne
Brett Buchea
Bob Buckley
Tim Burger
Nicholas Bushnell
Anthony Cabrera
Juan Campero
Hung-Shen Chang
Jimmy Chen
Benjamin Chiaro
Jahan Claes
Agnetta Cleland
Josh Cogan
Roberto Collins
Paul Conner
William Courtney
Alex Crook
Ben Curtin
Sayan Das
Laura De Lorenzo
Paul Donohoe
ILYA Drozdov
Andrew Dunsworth
Alec Eickbusch
Aviv Elbag
Mahmoud Elzouka
Vinicius Ferreira
Ebrahim Forati
Austin Fowler
Brooks Foxen
Suhas Ganjam
Robert Gasca
Élie Genois
William Giang
Dar Gilboa
Raja Gosula
Alejo Grajales Dau
Dietrich Graumann
Alex Greene
Steve Habegger
Monica Hansen
Sean Harrington
Paula Heu
Oscar Higgott
Jeremy Hilton
Robert Huang
Ashley Huff
Bill Huggins
Cody Jones
Chaitali Joshi
Pavol Juhas
Hui Kang
Amir Karamlou
Kostyantyn Kechedzhi
Trupti Khaire
Bryce Kobrin
Alexander Korotkov
Fedor Kostritsa
John Mark Kreikebaum
Vlad Kurilovich
Dave Landhuis
Tiano Lange-Dei
Brandon Langley
Kim Ming Lau
Justin Ledford
Kenny Lee
Loick Le Guevel
Wing Li
Alexander Lill
Will Livingston
Aditya Locharla
Daniel Lundahl
Aaron Lunt
Sid Madhuk
Ashley Maloney
Salvatore Mandra
Leigh Martin
Orion Martin
Cameron Maxfield
Seneca Meeks
Anthony Megrant
Reza Molavi
Sebastian Molina
Shirin Montazeri
Ramis Movassagh
Charles Neill
Michael Newman
Murray Ich Nguyen
Chia Ni
Kris Ottosson
Alex Pizzuto
Rebecca Potter
Orion Pritchard
Ganesh Ramachandran
Matt Reagor
David Rhodes
Gabrielle Roberts
Kannan Sankaragomathi
Henry Schurkus
Mike Shearn
Aaron Shorter
Vladimir Shvarts
Vlad Sivak
Spencer Small
Clarke Smith
Sofia Springer
George Sterling
Jordan Suchard
Alex Sztein
Doug Thor
Mert Torunbalci
Abeer Vaishnav
Justin Vargas
Sergey Vdovichev
Guifre Vidal
Catherine Vollgraff Heidweiller
Steven Waltman
Shannon Wang
Brayden Ware
Kristi Wong
Cheng Xing
Jamie Yao
Ping Yeh
Bicheng Ying
Juhwan Yoo
Grayson Young
Yaxing Zhang
Ningfeng Zhu
Yu Chen
Vadim Smelyanskiy
Adam Gammon-Smith
Frank Pollmann
Michael Knap
Nature, 642 (2025), 315–320
Preview abstract
Lattice gauge theories (LGTs) can be used to understand a wide range of phenomena, from elementary particle scattering in high-energy physics to effective descriptions of many-body interactions in materials. Studying dynamical properties of emergent phases can be challenging, as it requires solving many-body problems that are generally beyond perturbative limits. Here we investigate the dynamics of local excitations in a LGT using a two-dimensional lattice of superconducting qubits. We first construct a simple variational circuit that prepares low-energy states that have a large overlap with the ground state; then we create charge excitations with local gates and simulate their quantum dynamics by means of a discretized time evolution. As the electric field coupling constant is increased, our measurements show signatures of transitioning from deconfined to confined dynamics. For confined excitations, the electric field induces a tension in the string connecting them. Our method allows us to experimentally image string dynamics in a (2+1)D LGT, from which we uncover two distinct regimes inside the confining phase: for weak confinement, the string fluctuates strongly in the transverse direction, whereas for strong confinement, transverse fluctuations are effectively frozen. We also demonstrate a resonance condition at which dynamical string breaking is facilitated. Our LGT implementation on a quantum processor presents a new set of techniques for investigating emergent excitations and string dynamics.
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Dynamics of magnetization at infinite temperature in a Heisenberg spin chain
Trond Andersen
Rhine Samajdar
Andre Petukhov
Jesse Hoke
Dmitry Abanin
ILYA Drozdov
Xiao Mi
Charles Neill
Rajeev Acharya
Richard Ross Allen
Kyle Anderson
Markus Ansmann
Frank Arute
Kunal Arya
Abe Asfaw
Juan Atalaya
Gina Bortoli
Alexandre Bourassa
Leon Brill
Michael Broughton
Bob Buckley
Tim Burger
Nicholas Bushnell
Juan Campero
Hung-Shen Chang
Jimmy Chen
Benjamin Chiaro
Desmond Chik
Josh Cogan
Roberto Collins
Paul Conner
William Courtney
Alex Crook
Ben Curtin
Andrew Dunsworth
Clint Earle
Lara Faoro
Edward Farhi
Reza Fatemi
Vinicius Ferreira
Ebrahim Forati
Austin Fowler
Brooks Foxen
Gonzalo Garcia
Élie Genois
William Giang
Dar Gilboa
Raja Gosula
Alejo Grajales Dau
Steve Habegger
Michael Hamilton
Monica Hansen
Sean Harrington
Paula Heu
Gordon Hill
Markus Hoffmann
Trent Huang
Ashley Huff
Bill Huggins
Sergei Isakov
Justin Iveland
Cody Jones
Pavol Juhas
Marika Kieferova
Alexei Kitaev
Andrey Klots
Alexander Korotkov
Fedor Kostritsa
John Mark Kreikebaum
Dave Landhuis
Pavel Laptev
Kim Ming Lau
Lily Laws
Joonho Lee
Kenny Lee
Yuri Lensky
Alexander Lill
Wayne Liu
Aditya Locharla
Salvatore Mandra
Orion Martin
Steven Martin
Seneca Meeks
Amanda Mieszala
Shirin Montazeri
Ramis Movassagh
Wojtek Mruczkiewicz
Ani Nersisyan
Michael Newman
JiunHow Ng
Murray Ich Nguyen
Tom O'Brien
Seun Omonije
Alex Opremcak
Rebecca Potter
Leonid Pryadko
David Rhodes
Charles Rocque
Negar Saei
Kannan Sankaragomathi
Henry Schurkus
Christopher Schuster
Mike Shearn
Aaron Shorter
Vladimir Shvarts
Vlad Sivak
Jindra Skruzny
Clarke Smith
Rolando Somma
George Sterling
Doug Strain
Marco Szalay
Doug Thor
Alfredo Torres
Guifre Vidal
Catherine Vollgraff Heidweiller
Cheng Xing
Jamie Yao
Ping Yeh
Juhwan Yoo
Grayson Young
Yaxing Zhang
Ningfeng Zhu
Jeremy Hilton
Anthony Megrant
Yu Chen
Vadim Smelyanskiy
Vedika Khemani
Sarang Gopalakrishnan
Tomaž Prosen
Science, 384 (2024), pp. 48-53
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Understanding universal aspects of quantum dynamics is an unresolved problem in statistical mechanics. In particular, the spin dynamics of the one-dimensional Heisenberg model were conjectured as to belong to the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class based on the scaling of the infinite-temperature spin-spin correlation function. In a chain of 46 superconducting qubits, we studied the probability distribution of the magnetization transferred across the chain’s center, P(M). The first two moments of P(M) show superdiffusive behavior, a hallmark of KPZ universality. However, the third and fourth moments ruled out the KPZ conjecture and allow for evaluating other theories. Our results highlight the importance of studying higher moments in determining dynamic universality classes and provide insights into universal behavior in quantum systems.
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Stable quantum-correlated many-body states through engineered dissipation
Xiao Mi
Alexios Michailidis
Sara Shabani
Jerome Lloyd
Rajeev Acharya
Igor Aleiner
Trond Andersen
Markus Ansmann
Frank Arute
Kunal Arya
Abe Asfaw
Juan Atalaya
Gina Bortoli
Alexandre Bourassa
Leon Brill
Michael Broughton
Bob Buckley
Tim Burger
Nicholas Bushnell
Jimmy Chen
Benjamin Chiaro
Desmond Chik
Charina Chou
Josh Cogan
Roberto Collins
Paul Conner
William Courtney
Alex Crook
Ben Curtin
Alejo Grajales Dau
Dripto Debroy
ILYA Drozdov
Andrew Dunsworth
Lara Faoro
Edward Farhi
Reza Fatemi
Vinicius Ferreira
Ebrahim Forati
Austin Fowler
Brooks Foxen
Élie Genois
William Giang
Dar Gilboa
Raja Gosula
Steve Habegger
Michael Hamilton
Monica Hansen
Sean Harrington
Paula Heu
Markus Hoffmann
Trent Huang
Ashley Huff
Bill Huggins
Sergei Isakov
Justin Iveland
Cody Jones
Pavol Juhas
Kostyantyn Kechedzhi
Marika Kieferova
Alexei Kitaev
Andrey Klots
Alexander Korotkov
Fedor Kostritsa
John Mark Kreikebaum
Dave Landhuis
Pavel Laptev
Kim Ming Lau
Lily Laws
Joonho Lee
Kenny Lee
Yuri Lensky
Alexander Lill
Wayne Liu
Aditya Locharla
Orion Martin
Amanda Mieszala
Shirin Montazeri
Ramis Movassagh
Wojtek Mruczkiewicz
Charles Neill
Ani Nersisyan
Michael Newman
JiunHow Ng
Murray Ich Nguyen
Tom O'Brien
Alex Opremcak
Andre Petukhov
Rebecca Potter
Leonid Pryadko
Charles Rocque
Negar Saei
Kannan Sankaragomathi
Henry Schurkus
Christopher Schuster
Mike Shearn
Aaron Shorter
Vladimir Shvarts
Jindra Skruzny
Clarke Smith
Rolando Somma
George Sterling
Doug Strain
Marco Szalay
Alfredo Torres
Guifre Vidal
Catherine Vollgraff Heidweiller
Cheng Xing
Jamie Yao
Ping Yeh
Juhwan Yoo
Grayson Young
Yaxing Zhang
Ningfeng Zhu
Jeremy Hilton
Anthony Megrant
Yu Chen
Vadim Smelyanskiy
Dmitry Abanin
Science, 383 (2024), pp. 1332-1337
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Engineered dissipative reservoirs have the potential to steer many-body quantum systems toward correlated steady states useful for quantum simulation of high-temperature superconductivity or quantum magnetism. Using up to 49 superconducting qubits, we prepared low-energy states of the transverse-field Ising model through coupling to dissipative auxiliary qubits. In one dimension, we observed long-range quantum correlations and a ground-state fidelity of 0.86 for 18 qubits at the critical point. In two dimensions, we found mutual information that extends beyond nearest neighbors. Lastly, by coupling the system to auxiliaries emulating reservoirs with different chemical potentials, we explored transport in the quantum Heisenberg model. Our results establish engineered dissipation as a scalable alternative to unitary evolution for preparing entangled many-body states on noisy quantum processors.
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Purification-Based Quantum Error Mitigation of Pair-Correlated Electron Simulations
Thomas E O'Brien
Gian-Luca R. Anselmetti
Fotios Gkritsis
Vincent Elfving
Stefano Polla
William J. Huggins
Oumarou Oumarou
Kostyantyn Kechedzhi
Dmitry Abanin
Rajeev Acharya
Igor Aleiner
Richard Ross Allen
Trond Ikdahl Andersen
Kyle Anderson
Markus Ansmann
Frank Carlton Arute
Kunal Arya
Juan Atalaya
Michael Blythe Broughton
Bob Benjamin Buckley
Alexandre Bourassa
Leon Brill
Tim Burger
Nicholas Bushnell
Jimmy Chen
Yu Chen
Benjamin Chiaro
Desmond Chun Fung Chik
Josh Godfrey Cogan
Roberto Collins
Paul Conner
William Courtney
Alex Crook
Ben Curtin
Ilya Drozdov
Andrew Dunsworth
Daniel Eppens
Lara Faoro
Edward Farhi
Reza Fatemi
Ebrahim Forati
Austin Fowler
Brooks Riley Foxen
William Giang
Dar Gilboa
Alejandro Grajales Dau
Steve Habegger
Michael C. Hamilton
Sean Harrington
Catherine Vollgraff Heidweiller
Jeremy Patterson Hilton
Markus Rudolf Hoffmann
Trent Huang
Ashley Anne Huff
Sergei Isakov
Justin Thomas Iveland
Cody Jones
Pavol Juhas
Marika Kieferova
Andrey Klots
Alexander Korotkov
Fedor Kostritsa
John Mark Kreikebaum
Dave Landhuis
Pavel Laptev
Kim Ming Lau
Lily MeeKit Laws
Joonho Lee
Kenny Lee
Alexander T. Lill
Wayne Liu
Aditya Locharla
Orion Martin
Trevor Johnathan Mccourt
Anthony Megrant
Xiao Mi
Masoud Mohseni
Shirin Montazeri
Ramis Movassagh
Wojtek Mruczkiewicz
Charles Neill
Ani Nersisyan
Michael Newman
Jiun How Ng
Murray Nguyen
Alex Opremcak
Andre Gregory Petukhov
Rebecca Potter
Kannan Aryaperumal Sankaragomathi
Christopher Schuster
Mike Shearn
Aaron Shorter
Vladimir Shvarts
Jindra Skruzny
Vadim Smelyanskiy
Clarke Smith
Rolando Diego Somma
Doug Strain
Marco Szalay
Alfredo Torres
Guifre Vidal
Jamie Yao
Ping Yeh
Juhwan Yoo
Grayson Robert Young
Yaxing Zhang
Ningfeng Zhu
Christian Gogolin
Nature Physics (2023)
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An important measure of the development of quantum computing platforms has been the simulation of increasingly complex physical systems. Prior to fault-tolerant quantum computing, robust error mitigation strategies are necessary to continue this growth. Here, we study physical simulation within the seniority-zero electron pairing subspace, which affords both a computational stepping stone to a fully correlated model, and an opportunity to validate recently introduced ``purification-based'' error-mitigation strategies. We compare the performance of error mitigation based on doubling quantum resources in time (echo verification) or in space (virtual distillation), on up to 20 qubits of a superconducting qubit quantum processor. We observe a reduction of error by one to two orders of magnitude below less sophisticated techniques (e.g. post-selection); the gain from error mitigation is seen to increase with the system size. Employing these error mitigation strategies enables the implementation of the largest variational algorithm for a correlated chemistry system to-date. Extrapolating performance from these results allows us to estimate minimum requirements for a beyond-classical simulation of electronic structure. We find that, despite the impressive gains from purification-based error mitigation, significant hardware improvements will be required for classically intractable variational chemistry simulations.
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Readout of a quantum processor with high dynamic range Josephson parametric amplifiers
Aaron Shorter
Aditya Locharla
Alejandro Grajales Dau
Alex Crook
Alex Opremcak
Alexander Korotkov
Alexander Lill
Alexandre Bourassa
Alfredo Torres
Andrew Dunsworth
Ani Nersisyan
Anthony Megrant
Ashley Anne Huff
Ben Curtin
Benjamin Chiaro
Bob Benjamin Buckley
Brooks Riley Foxen
Charles Neill
Christopher Schuster
Dave Landhuis
Ebrahim Forati
Fedor Kostritsa
Frank Carlton Arute
Grayson Robert Young
Jamie Yao
Jeremy Patterson Hilton
Jimmy Chen
JiunHow Ng
John Mark Kreikebaum
Josh Godfrey Cogan
Juhwan Yoo
Justin Thomas Iveland
Kannan Aryaperumal Sankaragomathi
Kenny Lee
Kunal Arya
Leon Brill
Lily MeeKit Laws
Marco Szalay
Marika Kieferova
Markus Ansmann
Markus Rudolf Hoffmann
Michael C. Hamilton
Mike Shearn
Murray Nguyen
Nicholas Bushnell
Ningfeng Zhu
Pavel Laptev
Ping Yeh
Rajeev Acharya
Rebecca Potter
Reza Fatemi
Roberto Collins
Sean Harrington
Shirin Montazeri
Tim Burger
Trent Huang
Trevor Johnathan Mccourt
Vladimir Shvarts
Wayne Liu
William Giang
Xiao Mi
Yu Chen
Applied Physics Letters, 122 (2023), pp. 014001
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We demonstrate a high dynamic range Josephson parametric amplifier (JPA) in which the active nonlinear element is implemented using an array of rf-SQUIDs. The device is matched to the 50 $\Omega$ environment with a Klopfenstein-taper impedance transformer and achieves a bandwidth of 250-300 MHz, with input saturation powers up to $-95$~dBm at 20 dB gain. A 54-qubit Sycamore processor was used to benchmark these devices, providing a calibration for readout power, an estimate of amplifier added noise, and a platform for comparison against standard impedance matched parametric amplifiers with a single dc-SQUID. We find that the high power rf-SQUID array design has no adverse effect on system noise, readout fidelity, and qubit dephasing, and we estimate an upper bound on amplifier added noise at 1.6 times the quantum limit. Lastly, amplifiers with this design show no degradation in readout fidelity due to gain compression, which can occur in multi-tone multiplexed readout with traditional JPAs.
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Measurement-induced entanglement and teleportation on a noisy quantum processor
Jesse Hoke
Matteo Ippoliti
Dmitry Abanin
Rajeev Acharya
Trond Andersen
Markus Ansmann
Frank Arute
Kunal Arya
Abe Asfaw
Juan Atalaya
Gina Bortoli
Alexandre Bourassa
Leon Brill
Michael Broughton
Bob Buckley
Tim Burger
Nicholas Bushnell
Jimmy Chen
Benjamin Chiaro
Desmond Chik
Josh Cogan
Roberto Collins
Paul Conner
William Courtney
Alex Crook
Ben Curtin
Alejo Grajales Dau
ILYA Drozdov
Andrew Dunsworth
Daniel Eppens
Edward Farhi
Reza Fatemi
Vinicius Ferreira
Ebrahim Forati
Austin Fowler
Brooks Foxen
William Giang
Dar Gilboa
Raja Gosula
Steve Habegger
Michael Hamilton
Monica Hansen
Paula Heu
Markus Hoffmann
Trent Huang
Ashley Huff
Bill Huggins
Sergei Isakov
Justin Iveland
Cody Jones
Pavol Juhas
Kostyantyn Kechedzhi
Marika Kieferova
Alexei Kitaev
Andrey Klots
Alexander Korotkov
Fedor Kostritsa
John Mark Kreikebaum
Dave Landhuis
Pavel Laptev
Kim Ming Lau
Lily Laws
Joonho Lee
Kenny Lee
Yuri Lensky
Alexander Lill
Wayne Liu
Aditya Locharla
Orion Martin
Amanda Mieszala
Shirin Montazeri
Ramis Movassagh
Wojtek Mruczkiewicz
Charles Neill
Ani Nersisyan
Michael Newman
JiunHow Ng
Murray Ich Nguyen
Tom O'Brien
Seun Omonije
Alex Opremcak
Andre Petukhov
Rebecca Potter
Leonid Pryadko
Charles Rocque
Negar Saei
Kannan Sankaragomathi
Henry Schurkus
Christopher Schuster
Mike Shearn
Aaron Shorter
Vladimir Shvarts
Jindra Skruzny
Clarke Smith
Rolando Somma
George Sterling
Doug Strain
Marco Szalay
Alfredo Torres
Guifre Vidal
Catherine Vollgraff Heidweiller
Cheng Xing
Jamie Yao
Ping Yeh
Juhwan Yoo
Grayson Young
Yaxing Zhang
Ningfeng Zhu
Jeremy Hilton
Anthony Megrant
Yu Chen
Vadim Smelyanskiy
Xiao Mi
Vedika Khemani
Nature, 622 (2023), 481–486
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Measurement has a special role in quantum theory: by collapsing the wavefunction, it can enable phenomena such as teleportation and thereby alter the ‘arrow of time’ that constrains unitary evolution. When integrated in many-body dynamics, measurements can lead to emergent patterns of quantum information in space–time that go beyond the established paradigms for characterizing phases, either in or out of equilibrium. For present-day noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) processors, the experimental realization of such physics can be problematic because of hardware limitations and the stochastic nature of quantum measurement. Here we address these experimental challenges and study measurement-induced quantum information phases on up to 70 superconducting qubits. By leveraging the interchangeability of space and time, we use a duality mapping to avoid mid-circuit measurement and access different manifestations of the underlying phases, from entanglement scaling to measurement-induced teleportation. We obtain finite-sized signatures of a phase transition with a decoding protocol that correlates the experimental measurement with classical simulation data. The phases display remarkably different sensitivity to noise, and we use this disparity to turn an inherent hardware limitation into a useful diagnostic. Our work demonstrates an approach to realizing measurement-induced physics at scales that are at the limits of current NISQ processors.
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