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Prof. Michael Biercuk
Michael J. Biercuk is the CEO and Founder of Q-CTRL and a Professor of Quantum Physics and Quantum Technology at the University of Sydney where he also serves as Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems. Through these roles he has become a globally recognized pioneer in the discipline of quantum control engineering, seeking to make quantum systems perform useful work. Michael earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and his Masters and PhD from Harvard University. He held a research fellowship in the Ion Storage Group at NIST Boulder, and has served as a full-time technical consultant to DARPA, helping to steer government investments in quantum information and advanced computer architectures. Michael is a SXSW and TEDx speaking alumnus and has won multiple awards for research, innovation, and commercial technology development.
Qualifications:
PhD, Harvard University, USA (2005)
AM, Harvard University, USA (2003)
BA, University of Pennsylvania, USA (2001)
Research Facilities:
2024
2024
Stace TM, Chen J, Li L, Perunicic VS, Carvalho ARR, Hush M, Valahu CH, Tan TRei, Biercuk MJ.
2024. Optimized Bayesian system identification in quantum devices. Physical Review Applied. 21
2021
2021
Gupta RSwaroop, Biercuk MJ.
2021. Adaptive filtering of projective quantum measurements using discrete stochastic methods. Physical Review A. 104(1)
2020
2020
Edmunds C.L, Hempel C., Harris R.J, Frey V., Stace TM, Biercuk MJ.
2020. Dynamically corrected gates suppressing spatiotemporal error correlations as measured by randomized benchmarking. Physical Review Research. 2(1)
Gupta RSwaroop, Govia LCG, Biercuk MJ.
2020. Integration of spectator qubits into quantum computer architectures for hardware tune-up and calibration. Physical Review A. 102(4)
Milne AR, Edmunds CL, Hempel C, Roy F, Mavadia S, Biercuk MJ.
2020. Phase-Modulated Entangling Gates Robust to Static and Time-Varying Errors. Physical Review Applied. 13(2)
2019
2019
Ball H, Marciniak C.D, Wolf R.N, Hung A.T-H, Pyka K., Biercuk MJ.
2019. Site-resolved imaging of beryllium ion crystals in a high-optical-access Penning trap with inbore optomechanics. Review of Scientific Instruments. 90(5):053103.
2018
2018
Mavadia S., Edmunds C.L, Hempel C., Ball H, Roy F., Stace TM, Biercuk MJ.
2018. Experimental quantum verification in the presence of temporally correlated noise. npj Quantum Information. 4(1)
Gupta RSwaroop, Biercuk MJ.
2018. Machine Learning for Predictive Estimation of Qubit Dynamics Subject to Dephasing. Physical Review Applied. 9(6)
Norris LM, Lucarelli D, Frey VM, Mavadia S, Biercuk MJ, Viola L.
2018. Optimally band-limited spectroscopy of control noise using a qubit sensor. Physical Review A. 98(3)
2017
2017
Frey V.M, Mavadia S., Norris L.M, de Ferranti W., Lucarelli D., Viola L, Biercuk MJ.
2017. Application of optimal band-limited control protocols to quantum noise sensing. Nature Communications. 8(1)
Bermudez A., Xu X., Nigmatullin R., O’Gorman J., Negnevitsky V., Schindler P., Monz T., Poschinger U.G, Hempel C., Home J. et al..
2017. Assessing the Progress of Trapped-Ion Processors Towards Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation. Physical Review X. 7(4)
Mavadia S, Frey V, Sastrawan J, Dona S, Biercuk MJ.
2017. Prediction and real-time compensation of qubit decoherence via machine learning. Nature Communications. 8:14106.
Marciniak C, Ball H, Hung AT-H, Biercuk MJ.
2017. Towards fully commercial, UV-compatible fiber patch cords. Optics Express. 25(14):15643.
2016
2016
Sastrawan J., Jones C., Akhalwaya I., Uys H., Biercuk MJ.
2016. Analytically exploiting noise correlations inside the feedback loop to improve locked-oscillator performance. Physical Review E. 94(2)
Ball H, Stace TM, Flammia ST, Biercuk MJ.
2016. Effect of noise correlations on randomized benchmarking. Physical Review A. 93(2)
Ball H, Nguyen T, Leong PH W, Biercuk MJ.
2016. Functional Basis for Efficient Physical Layer Classical Control in Quantum Processors. Physical Review Applied. 6(6)
Ball H, Oliver WD, Biercuk MJ.
2016. The role of master clock stability in quantum information processing. npj Quantum Information. 2:16033.
Britton J.W, Bohnet J.G, Sawyer B.C, Uys H., Biercuk MJ, Bollinger J.J.
2016. Vibration-induced field fluctuations in a superconducting magnet. Physical Review A. 93(6)
2015
2015
Green TJ, Biercuk MJ.
2015. Phase-Modulated Decoupling and Error Suppression in Qubit-Oscillator Systems. Physical Review Letters. 114(12)
Ball H, Biercuk MJ.
2015. Walsh-synthesized noise filters for quantum logic. EPJ Quantum Technology. 2(1)
2014
2014
Soare A, Ball H, Hayes D, Zhen X., Jarratt MC, Sastrawan J., Uys H., Biercuk MJ.
2014. Experimental bath engineering for quantitative studies of quantum control. Physical Review A. 89(4)
Soare A., Ball H, Hayes D., Zhen X., Jarratt M.C, Sastrawan J., Uys H., Biercuk MJ.
2014. Experimental bath engineering for quantitative studies of quantum control. Physical Review A. 89(4)
Soare A., Ball H, Hayes D., Sastrawan J., Jarratt M.C, McLoughlin J.J, Zhen X., Green TJ, Biercuk MJ.
2014. Experimental noise filtering by quantum control. Nature Physics.
Soare A., Ball H, Hayes D., Sastrawan J., Jarratt M.C, McLoughlin J.J, Zhen X., Green TJ, Biercuk MJ.
2014. Experimental noise filtering by quantum control. Nature Physics. 10(11):825-829.
Lee MW, Jarratt MClaire, Marciniak C, Biercuk MJ.
2014. Frequency stabilization of a 369 nm diode laser by nonlinear spectroscopy of Ytterbium ions in a discharge. Optics Express. 22(6):7210.
Hayes D, Flammia ST, Biercuk MJ.
2014. Programmable quantum simulation by dynamic Hamiltonian engineering . New Journal of Physics. 16(8)
Kabytayev C, Green TJ, Khodjasteh K, Biercuk MJ, Viola L, Brown KR.
2014. Robustness of composite pulses to time-dependent control noise . Physical Review A. 90(1)
2013
2013
Green TJ, Sastrawan J, Uys H, Biercuk MJ.
2013. Arbitrary quantum control of qubits in the presence of universal noise. New Journal of Physics. 15(9):095004.
Khodjasteh K, Sastrawan J, Hayes D, Green TJ, Biercuk MJ, Viola L.
2013. Designing a practical high-fidelity long-time quantum memory. Nature Communications. 4
Ball H, Lee MW, Gensemer SD, Biercuk MJ.
2013. A high-power 626 nm diode laser system for Beryllium ion trapping. Review of Scientific Instruments. 84(6)
2012
2012
Britton JW, Sawyer B, Keith A, Wang C.-C., Freericks J, Uys H, Biercuk MJ, Bollinger JJ.
2012. Engineered two-dimensional Ising interactions in a trapped-ion quantum simulator with hundreds of spins. Nature. 484(7395):489-492.
Green TJ, Uys H, Biercuk MJ.
2012. High-Order Noise Filtering in Nontrivial Quantum Logic Gates . Physical Review Letters. 109(2)
Sawyer B, Britton JW, Keith A, Wang C.-C., Freericks J, Uys H, Biercuk MJ, Bollinger JJ.
2012. Spectroscopy and Thermometry of Drumhead Modes in a Mesoscopic Trapped-Ion Crystal Using Entanglement . Physical Review Letters. 108(21)
2011
2011
Biercuk MJ, Doherty AC, Uys H.
2011. Dynamical decoupling sequence construction as a filter-design problem . Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. 44(15):154002.
Biercuk MJ, Bluhm H.
2011. Phenomenological study of decoherence in solid-state spin qubits due to nuclear spin diffusion . Physical Review B. 83(23)
Biercuk MJ, Reilly DJ.
2011. Quantum computing: Solid-state spins survive. Nature Nanotechnology. 6(1):9-11.
Biercuk MJ.
2011. Quantum measurement: A quantum spectrum analyser. Nature Physics. 7(7):525-526.
Hayes D, Khodjasteh K, Viola L, Biercuk MJ.
2011. Reducing sequencing complexity in dynamical quantum error suppression by Walsh modulation. Physical Review A. 84(6)
Demonstrating the use of phase modulated gates to decouple spin and vibrational modes in trapped ion systems
Dr Claire Edmunds (she/her)
Honours project - Principal Advisor
Precise Quantum Control and Quantum Memory with Trapped Ions
Doctor Philosophy - Principal Advisor
Physical Layer Error Evasion Strategies via Quantum Control
Todd Green
Doctor Philosophy - Principal Advisor
Programmable Quantum Simulation using Trapped Ions
Dr Alistair Milne
Doctor Philosophy - Principal Advisor
An evaluation of quantum control techniques in a Yb+ ion trap
Stephen Dona
Doctor Philosophy - Principal Advisor
High-power UV laser system frequency locking by FPGA based PID controller for Beryllium Penning trap
Undergraduate project - Principal Advisor
Quantum simulation with 9Be+ ions in a Penning trap and topics in quantum control and verification
Dr. Harrison Ball
Doctor Philosophy - Principal Advisor
Progammable Quantum Simulation
Dr Christian Marciniak
Doctor Philosophy - Principal Advisor
Quantum control and error-suppression using protocols from machine learning and the generalised filter-function formalism
Virginia Frey
Doctor Philosophy - Principal Advisor
Development of in-house electronics and FPGA-based signal processing for an Ytterbium ion Paul trap
(2015) Charlotte Ward
Undergraduate project - Principal Advisor
Spectroscopic Methods in Quantum Control Theory: Realising High Fidelity Operations on the Bloch Sphere
(2015) William De Ferranti
Honours project - Principal Advisor
Last reviewed 23 July 2015
Major funding support
The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS) acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and their continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders past and present.
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