People: Madelyn Cain

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mcain@g.harvard.edu
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Publications
  1. S. Notarnicola, M. Cain, M. Lukin, D. Sels, and J. R. Finžgar. Counterdiabatic Driving with Performance Guarantees. ArXiv 2025.
  2. G. Baranes, M. Cain, D. Bluvstein, J. Sinclair, V. Vuletic, H. Zhou, M. Lukin, and P. B. Ataides. Leveraging Atom Loss Errors in Fault Tolerant Quantum Algorithms. ArXiv 2025.
  3. S. Evered, A. Geim, T. Manovitz, D. Bluvstein, N. Maskara, H. Zhou, S. Ebadi, M. Xu, M. Cain, S. Ostermann, S. Yelin, M. Greiner, V. Vuletic, M. Lukin, M. Kalinowski, S. H. Li, J. Campo, and S. Sachdev. Probing topological matter and fermion dynamics on a neutral-atom quantum computer. ArXiv 2025.
  4. S. Notarnicola, M. Cain, M. Lukin, H. Pichler, L. Bombieri, Z. Zeng, R. Tricarico, and R. Lin. Quantum adiabatic optimization with Rydberg arrays: localization phenomena and encoding strategies. PRX Quantum, 6(020306), April 2025.
  5. H. Zhou, M. Cain, D. Bluvstein, H.-Y. Hu, S. Wang, M. Lukin, C. Zhao, C. Duckering, and A. Kubica. Algorithmic Fault Tolerance for Fast Quantum Computing. ArXiv 2024.
  6. D. Wild, N. Maskara, M. Cain, M. Lukin, B. F. Shiffer, and R. Samajdar. Circumventing superexponential runtimes for hard instances of quantum adiabatic optimization. Phys Rev Research, 6(013271), March 2024.
  7. M. Cain, H. Zhou, D. Bluvstein, M. Lukin, C. Zhao, N. Meister, J. P. B. Ataides, and A. Jaffe. Correlated decoding of logical algorithms with transversal gates. Phys Rev Lett, 133(240602), December 2024.
  8. K. Van Kirk, H.-Y. Hu, M. Cain, S. Yelin, H. Pichler, M. Lukin, C. Kokail, J. Kunjummen, Y. Teng, and J. Taylor. Derandomized shallow shadows: Efficient Pauli learning with bounded-depth circuits. ArXiv 2024.
  9. D. Bluvstein, M. Cain, N. Maskara, X. Gao, M. Lukin, M. Gullans, D. Hangleiter, M. Kalinowski, and A. Kubica. Fault-tolerant compiling of classically hard IQP circuits on hypercubes. ArXiv 2024.
  10. A. Lukin, B. Braverman, S. Cantu, F. Huber, A. Bylinskii, J. Amato-Grill, N. Maskara, M. Cain, D. Wild, M. Lukin, B. F. Schiffer, and R. Samajdar. Quantum quench dynamics as a shortcut to adiabaticity. ArXiv 2024.
  11. D. Bluvstein, S. Evered, H. Zhou, T. Manovitz, S. Ebadi, M. Cain, M. Kalinowski, N. Maskara, I. Cong, X. Gao, G. Semeghini, M. Gullans, M. Greiner, V. Vuletic, M. Lukin, A. Geim, S. H. Li, D. Hangleiter, J. P. B. Ataides, P. S. Rodriguez, and T. Karolyshyn. Logical quantum processor based on reconfigurable atom arrays. Nature, 626:58–65, December 2023.
  12. M. Cain, S. Chattopadhyay, J. Liu, H. Pichler, M. Lukin, and R. Samajdar. Quantum speedup for combinatorial optimization with flat energy landscapes. ArXiv 2023.
  13. 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.
News
Sun December 24, 2023

Harvard Unveils World’s First Logical Quantum Processor

Harvard’s breakthrough in quantum computing features a new logical quantum processor with 48 logical qubits, enabling large-scale algorithm execution on an error-corrected system. This development, led by Mikhail Lukin, represents a major advance towards practical, fault-tolerant quantum computers.
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