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Prof. Gavin Brennen
Professor Gavin Brennen abides by the maxim that nature is a wondrous place and an unfinished product. His main interests are how to use the physical laws we know, particularly quantum mechanics, to probe in ever more exquisite detail the manifestations of nature -- from elementary interactions to collective behaviour of complex many particle systems. His research focus is quantum simulations, quantum many body information, and coherent control with AMO systems.
Qualifications:
PhD, University of New Mexico, United States (2001)
MS, University of New Mexico, United States (1998)
BS, University of Alaska, United States (1994)
2025
2025
Pecorari L, Jandura S, Brennen G, Pupillo G.
2025. High-rate quantum LDPC codes for long-range-connected neutral atom registers. Nature Communications. 16(1)
2024
2024
Hahn A, Murk S, Singh S, Brennen G.
2024. Categorical quantum volume operator. Physical Review D. 110(8)
Jandura S, Srivastava V, Pecorari L, Brennen G, Pupillo G.
2024. Nonlocal multiqubit quantum gates via a driven cavity. Physical Review A. 110(6)
Vedl Š, George DJ, Brennen G.
2024. Scale limited fields and the Casimir effect. Physical Review D. 109(1)
2022
2022
George DJ, Sanders YR, Bagherimehrab M, Sanders BC, Brennen G.
2022. Entanglement in quantum field theory via wavelet representations. Physical Review D. 106(3)
Huang Z, Brennen G, Ouyang Y.
2022. Imaging Stars with Quantum Error Correction. Physical Review Letters. 129(21)
Johnsson M, Baragiola BQ, Volz T, Brennen G.
2022. Modified coherence of quantum spins in a damped pure-dephasing model. Physical Review B. 105(9)
2021
2021
Nigmatullin R, Wagner E, Brennen G.
2021. Directed percolation in nonunitary quantum cellular automata. Physical Review Research. 3(4)
2020
2020
Harris RJ, Coupe E, McMahon N., Brennen G, Stace TM.
2020. Decoding holographic codes with an integer optimization decoder. Physical Review A. 102(6)
Schütz S., Schachenmayer J., Hagenmüller D., Brennen G, Volz T, Sandoghdar V., Ebbesen T.W, Genes C., Pupillo G..
2020. Ensemble-Induced Strong Light-Matter Coupling of a Single Quantum Emitter. Physical Review Letters. 124(11)
Johnsson M, Mukty NRoy, Burgarth D, Volz T, Brennen G.
2020. Geometric Pathway to Scalable Quantum Sensing. Physical Review Letters. 125(19)
McMahon N., Singh S, Brennen G.
2020. A holographic duality from lifted tensor networks. npj Quantum Information. 6(1)
Wintermantel T.M, Wang Y., Lochead G., Shevate S., Brennen G, Whitlock S..
2020. Unitary and Nonunitary Quantum Cellular Automata with Rydberg Arrays. Physical Review Letters. 124(7)
2019
2019
Singh S, McMahon N., Brennen G.
2019. Entanglement renormalization and symmetry fractionalization. Physical Review B. 99(19)
2018
2018
Menicucci NC, Baragiola BQ, Demarie TF, Brennen G.
2018. Anonymous broadcasting of classical information with a continuous-variable topological quantum code. Physical Review A. 97(3)
Harris RJ, McMahon N., Brennen G, Stace TM.
2018. Calderbank-Shor-Steane holographic quantum error-correcting codes. Physical Review A. 98(5)
Singh S., McMahon N., Brennen G.
2018. Holographic spin networks from tensor network states. Physical Review D. 97(2)
Ayeni BM, Pfeifer RNC, Brennen G.
2018. Phase transitions on a ladder of braided non-Abelian anyons. Physical Review B. 98(4)
Nikolova A., Brennen G, Osborne T.J, Milburn G, Stace TM.
2018. Relational time in anyonic systems. Physical Review A. 97(3)
Bartlett SD, Brennen G, Miyake A.
2018. Robust symmetry-protected metrology with the Haldane phase. Quantum Science and Technology. 3(1):014010.
2017
2017
Bradac C, Johnsson M, van Breugel M, Baragiola BQ, Martin R, Juan ML, Brennen G, Volz T.
2017. Room-temperature spontaneous superradiance from single diamond nanocrystals. Nature Communications. 8(1)
2016
2016
Juan M L., Bradac C, Besga B, Johnsson M, Brennen G, Molina-Terriza G, Volz T.
2016. Cooperatively enhanced dipole forces from artificial atoms in trapped nanodiamonds. Nature Physics.
Brennen G, Pupillo G., Rico E., Stace TM, Vodola D..
2016. Loops and Strings in a Superconducting Lattice Gauge Simulator. Physical Review Letters. 117(24)
Johnsson M, Brennen G, Twamley J.
2016. Macroscopic superpositions and gravimetry with quantum magnetomechanics. Scientific Reports. 6:37495.
Ayeni BM, Singh S., Pfeifer RNC, Brennen G.
2016. Simulation of braiding anyons using matrix product states. Physical Review B. 93(16)
Bradac C, Juan ML, Johnsson M, Besga B, van Breugel M., Baragiola B., Martin R., Brennen G, Molina-Terriza G, Volz T.
2016. SPIE ProceedingsCooperatively-enhanced atomic dipole forces in optically trapped nanodiamonds containing NV centres, in liquid. SPIE BioPhotonics AustralasiaSPIE BioPhotonics Australasia. 10013:1001334.
2015
2015
Brennen G, Giacobino E, Simon C.
2015. Focus on Quantum Memory. New Journal of Physics. 17(5):050201.
Brennen G, Rohde PP, Sanders BC, Singh S..
2015. Multiscale quantum simulation of quantum field theory using wavelets. Physical Review A. 92(3)
2014
2014
Demarie T, Linjordet T, Menicucci N, Brennen G.
2014. Detecting topological entanglement entropy in a lattice of quantum harmonic oscillators. New Journal of Physics. 16(8)
Iblisdir S., Cirio M., Boada O., Brennen G.
2014. Low depth quantum circuits for Ising models. Annals of Physics. 340(1):205-251.
Singh S., Pfeifer RNC, Vidal G, Brennen G.
2014. Matrix product states for anyonic systems and efficient simulation of dynamics. Physical Review B.
Zatloukal V., Lehman L., Singh S., Pachos J.K, Brennen G.
2014. Transport properties of anyons in random topological environments. Physical Review B. 90(13)
2013
2013
Renes JM, Miyake A, Brennen G, Bartlett SD.
2013. Holonomic quantum computing in symmetry-protected ground states of spin chains . New Journal of Physics. 15(2):025020.
Lehman L., Ellinas D, Brennen G.
2013. Quantum Walks of SU(2)_k Anyons on a Ladder. Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience. 10(7)
Rohde PP, Brennen G, Gilchrist A.
2013. Quantum walks with memory provided by recycled coins and a memory of the coin-flip history . Physical Review A. 87(5)
2012
2012
Xia K, Brennen G, Ellinas D, Twamley J.
2012. Deterministic generation of an on-demand Fock state. Optics Express. 20(24):27198.
Xia K, Brennen G, Ellinas D, Twamley J.
2012. Deterministic generation of an on-demand Fock state. 43rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. 57:5.
Darmawan AS, Brennen G, Bartlett SD.
2012. Measurement-based quantum computation in a two-dimensional phase of matter. New Journal of Physics. 14(1):013023.
Cirio M., Brennen G, Twamley J.
2012. Quantum Magnetomechanics: Ultrahigh-Q-Levitated Mechanical Oscillators . Physical Review Letters. 109(14)
2011
2011
Paz-Silva GA, Brennen G, Twamley J.
2011. Bulk fault-tolerant quantum information processing with boundary addressability. New Journal of Physics. 13(1):013011.
Lehman L., Zatloukal V, Brennen G, Pachos J, Wang Z.
2011. Quantum Walks with Non-Abelian Anyons. Physical Review Letters. 106(23)
Testing the AdS3/CFT2 correspondence: an entanglement renomalization approach
Dr Nathan McMahon
Doctor Philosophy - Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Prof. Gerard J Milburn (principal)
Topological quantum computation using symmetric tensor networks
(2015) Dr Babatunde M. Ayeni
Doctor Philosophy - Principal Advisor
Major funding support
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