People: Nishad Maskara

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nmaskara@g.harvard.edu
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Publications
  1. N. Maskara, M. Kalinowski, M. Lukin, and M. Park. Enhancing Quantum Memory Lifetime with Measurement-Free Local Error Correction and Reinforcement Learning. Phys Rev A, 111(012419), January 2025.
  2. 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.
  3. N. Maskara, S. Ostermann, M. Kalinowski, A. McClain, R. A. Bravo, D. Wang, J. Shee, and et al.. Programmable Simulations of Molecules and Materials with Reconfigurable Quantum Processors. Nature Physics, 21:289–297, 2025.
  4. T. Manovitz, S. Ebadi, A. Geim, S. Evered, D. Bluvstein, H. Zhou, N. U. Koyluoglu, J. Feldmeier, P. Dolgirev, N. Maskara, M. Kalinowski, M. Greiner, V. Vuletic, M. Lukin, S. Li, R. Samajdar, S. Sachdev, and D. Huse. Quantum coarsening and collective dynamics on a programmable quantum simulator. Nature, 638:86–92, February 2025.
  5. 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.
  6. I. Cong, N. Maskara, H. Pichler, G. Semeghini, S. Yelin, S. Choi, and M.C. Tran. Enhancing Detection of Topological Order by Local Error Correction. Nature Communications 2024.
  7. 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.
  8. N. U. Koyluoglu, N. Maskara, J. Feldmeier, and M. Lukin. Floquet engineering of interactions and entanglement in periodically driven Rydberg chains. ArXiv 2024.
  9. N. Maskara, M. Lukin, H. Pichler, R. Ott, T. V. Zache, and P. Zoller. Probing topological entanglement on large scales. 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. J. Feldmeier, N. Maskara, N. U. Koyluoglu, and M. Lukin. Quantum simulation of dynamical gauge theories in periodically driven Rydberg atom arrays. ArXiv 2024.
  12. L. Martin, H. Zhou, N. Leitao, N. Maskara, O. Makarova, H. Gao, Q.-Z. Zhu, H. Park, S. Choi, M. Lukin, M. Park, and M. Tyler. Controlling local thermalization dynamics in a Floquet-engineered dipolar ensemble. Phys Rev Lett, 130(210403), March 2023.
  13. D. Bluvstein, M. Kalinowski, N. Maskara, A. Kaufman, M. Lukin, H. Pichler, D. González-Cuadra, R. Kaubruegger, P. Naldesi, T. V. Zache, B. Vermersch, J. Ye, and P. Zoller. Fermionic quantum processing with programmable neutral atom arrays. ArXiv 2023.
  14. D. Bluvstein, M. Kalinowski, N. Maskara, A. Kaufman, M. Lukin, H. Pichler, D. González-Cuadra, R. Kaubruegger, P. Naldesi, T. V. Zache, B. Vermersch, J. Ye, and P. Zoller. Fermionic quantum processing with programmable neutral atom arrays. PNAS , 120(35), August 2023.
  15. 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.
  16. M. Kalinowski, N. Maskara, and M. Lukin. Non-Abelian Floquet Spin Liquids in a Digital Rydberg Simulator. Phys Rev X July 2023.
  17. N. Maskara, S. Ostermann, M. Kalinowski, A. McClain, R. A. Bravo, D. Wang, N. Yao, M. Lukin, S. Yelin, J. Shee, A. Krylov, and M. Head-Gordon. Programmable Simulations of Molecules and Materials with Reconfigurable Quantum Pro-cessors. ArXiv 2023.
  18. D. Bluvstein, H. Levine, G. Semeghini, T. Wang, S. Ebadi, M. Kalinowski, A. Keesling Contreras, N. Maskara, H. Pichler, M. Greiner, V. Vuletic, and M. Lukin. A Quantum Processor based on coherent transport of entangled atom arrays. Nature, 604:451-456, April 2022.
  19. 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.
  20. N. Maskara, W.W. Ho, D. Bluvstein, S. Choi, M. Lukin, Alexios A. Michailidis, and Maksym Serbyn. Discrete time-crystalline order enabled by quantum many-body scars: entanglement steering via periodic driving. PhysRevLett, 127(090602), August 2021.
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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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