People: Alexander Keesling Contreras

Harvard
keeslingcontreras@g.harvard.edu
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Cambridge, MA 02138
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Publications
  1. D. Bluvstein, H. Levine, G. Semeghini, T. Wang, S. Ebadi, M. Kalinowski, A. Keesling Contreras, N. Maskara, H. Pichler, M. Greiner, V. Vuletic, M. Lukin, A Quantum Processor based on coherent transport of entangled atom arrays. Nature, 604:451-456, April 2022.
  2. H. Levine, D. Bluvstein, A. Keesling Contreras, T. Wang, S. Ebadi, G. Semeghini, A. Omran, M. Greiner, V. Vuletic, M. Lukin, Dispersive optical systems for scalable Raman driving of hyperfine qubits. Physical Review A, 105(032618), March 2022.
  3. I. Cong, S. Wang, H. Levine, A. Keesling Contreras, M. Lukin, Hardware-Efficient, Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation with Rydberg Atoms. Physical Review X , 12(021049), June 2022.
  4. S. Ebadi, A. Keesling Contreras, M. Cain, T. Wang, H. Levine, D. Bluvstein, G. Semeghini, A. Omran, J. Liu, B. Nash, X. Gao, L. Zhou, S. Choi, H. Pichler, S. Wang, M. Greiner, V. Vuletic, M. Lukin, Rhine Samajdar, Xiu-Zhe Luo, Boaz Barak, Edward Farhi, Subir Sachdev, and Nathan Gemelke. Quantum Optimization of Maximum Independent Set using Rydberg Atom Arrays. Science May 2022.
  5. D. Bluvstein, A. Omran, H. Levine, A. Keesling Contreras, G. Semeghini, S. Ebadi, T. Wang, N. Maskara, W.W. Ho, S. Choi, M. Greiner, V. Vuletic, M. Lukin, A. A. Michailidis, and M. Serbyn. Controlling many-body dynamics with driven quantum scars in Rydberg atom arrays. Science, 371(6536):1355-1359, March 2021.
  6. G. Semeghini, H. Levine, A. Keesling Contreras, S. Ebadi, T. Wang, D. Bluvstein, H. Pichler, M. Kalinowski, A. Omran, M. Greiner, V. Vuletic, M. Lukin, Ruben Verresen, Rhine Samajdar, Subir Sachdev, and Ashvin Vishwanath. Probing Topological Spin Liquids on a Programmable Quantum Simulator. Science, 374(6572):1242-1247, December 2021.
  7. S. Ebadi, T. Wang, H. Levine, A. Keesling Contreras, G. Semeghini, A. Omran, D. Bluvstein, H. Pichler, W.W. Ho, S. Choi, M. Greiner, V. Vuletic, M. Lukin, Rhine Samajdar, and Subir Sachdev. Quantum Phases of Matter on a 256-Atom Programmable Quantum Simulator. Nature, 595:227-232, July 2021.
  8. A. Keesling Contreras Quantum simulation and quantum information processing with programmable Rydberg atom arrays. Harvard University, 2021.
  9. A. Omran, H. Levine, A. Keesling Contreras, G. Semeghini, S. Ebadi, H. Bernien, A. Zibrov, H. Pichler, S. Choi, M. Endres, M. Greiner, V. Vuletic, M. Lukin, T. T. Wang, J. Cui, M. Rossignolo, P. Rembold, S. Montangero, and T. Calarco. Generation and manipulation of Schrödinger cat states in Rydberg atom arrays. Science, 365(6453):570-574, August 2019.
  10. H. Levine, A. Omran, A. Keesling Contreras, H. Bernien, M. Greiner, V. Vuletic, M. Lukin, M. Endres, G. Torlai, B. Timar, E.P.L. va Nieuwenburg, and R.G. Melko. Integrating neural networks with a quantum simulator for state reconstruction. Physical Review Letters, 123(230504), December 2019.
  11. D. Kim, A. Keesling Contreras, A. Omran, H. Levine, H. Bernien, M. Greiner, M. Lukin, D. Englund, Large-Scale Uniform Optical Focus Array Generation with a Phase Spatial Light Modulator. Optics Letters 2019.
  12. D. Kim, A. Keesling Contreras, A. Omran, H. Levine, H. Bernien, M. Greiner, M. Lukin, D. Englund, Large-Scale Uniform Optical Focus Array Generation with a Phase Spatial Light Modulator,. Optics Letters, 44(12):3178-3181, 2019.
  13. H. Levine, A. Keesling Contreras, G. Semeghini, A. Omran, T. Wang, S. Ebadi, H. Bernien, M. Greiner, V. Vuletic, H. Pichler, M. Lukin, Parallel Implementation of High-fidelity Multi-qubit Gates with Neutral Atoms. Physical Review Letters, 123(170503), October 2019.
  14. A. Keesling Contreras, A. Omran, H. Levine, H. Bernien, H. Pichler, S. Choi, M. Endres, M. Greiner, V. Vuletic, M. Lukin, R. Samajdar, S. Schwartz, P. Silvi, S. Sachdev, and P. Zoller. Quantum Kibble-Zurek mechanism and critical dynamics on a programmable Rydberg simulator. Nature, 568:207–211, April 2019.
  15. H. Levine, A. Keesling Contreras, A. Omran, H. Bernien, A. Zibrov, M. Endres, M. Greiner, V. Vuletic, M. Lukin, and S. Schwartz. High-Fidelity Control and Entanglement of Rydberg-Atom Qubits. Phys. Rev. Lett, 121(123603), September 2018.
  16. H. Bernien, A. Keesling Contreras, H. Levine, A. Omran, H. Pichler, S. Choi, A. Zibrov, M. Endres, M. Greiner, V. Vuletic, M. Lukin, and S. Schwartz. Probing many-body dynamics on a 51-atom quantum simulator. Nature, 551:579-584, 2017.
  17. M. Endres, H. Bernien, A. Keesling Contreras, C. Senko, V. Vuletic, M. Greiner, M. Lukin, H. Levine, E.R. Anschuetz, and A. Krajenbrink. Atom-by-atom assembly of defect-free one-dimensional cold atom arrays. Science, 375(6315), November 2016.