People: Norman Yao

Harvard
nyao@fas.harvard.edu
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Jefferson 372
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Professor of Physics
Publications
  1. N. Yao, T. Schuster, T. Nathanan , and A. Vishwanath . A holographic view of topological stabilizer codes. ArXiv 2023.
  2. M. Lukin, N. Yao, M. P. Zaletel, C. Monroe, C. Nayak, and F. Wilczek. Colloquium: Quantum and Classical Discrete Time Crystals. Reviews of Modern Physics, 95(031001), 2023.
  3. 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.
  4. M. Bintz, V. Liu, N. Yao, C. Chen, G. Emperauger , B. Guillaume , F. Caleca , G. Bastien , S. Chatterjee , D. Barredo, T. Lahaye , F. Mezzacapo , R. Tommaso , and A. Browaeys. Spectroscopy of elementary excitations from quench dynamics in a dipolar XY Rydberg simulator. ArXiv 2023.
  5. P. Dolgirev, I. Esterlis, A. Zibrov, M. Lukin, N. Yao, E. Demler, and Shubhayu Chatterjee. Single-spin qubit magnetic spectroscopy of two-dimensional superconductivity. Physical Review Research, 4, January 2022.
  6. J. Marino, N. Yao, M. Lukin, E. Demler, and B. Zhu. Dicke time crystals in driven-dissipative quantum many-body systems. New Journal of Physics July 2019.
  7. E. Demler, N. Yao, K. Akkaravarawong, J. I. Väyrynen, J. D. Sau, and L. I. Glazman. Probing and dressing magnetic impurities in a superconductor. Phys. Rev. Research, 1(033091), 2019.
  8. F. Grusdt, N. Yao, E. Demler, Topological polarons, quasiparticle invariants, and their detection in one-dimensional symmetry-protected phases. Phys. Rev. B, 100(075126), 2019.
  9. N. Yao, M. Lukin, Dynamical engineering of interactions in qudit ensembles.
  10. S. Choi, N. Yao, M. Lukin, Quantum metrology based on strongly correlated matter. ArXiv 2017.
  11. F. Grusdt, N. Yao, D. Abanin, E. Demler, and M. Fleischhauer. Interferometric Measurements of Many-body Topological Invariants using Mobile Impurities. Nature Communications, 7(11994), June 2016.
News
Wed October 16, 2024

Norman Yao wins 2025 I. I. Rabi Prize

Full prize information can be found here.
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Awards
Tue December 12, 2023

Programmable Quantum Simulators Meet Quantum Chemistry

In an interdisciplinary collaborative effort, a team of CUA members in the Yelin, Lukin, and Yao groups joined forces with computational quantum chemists in Martin Head-Gordon’s group (UC Berkeley) to develop a novel approach to simulate quantum properties of molecules and materials on state-of-the-art atomic quantum processors. Quantum chemistry is seen as a promising potential...
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Research Highlights
Past Events
Tue April 4, 2023 4:00 pm

CUA Seminar – Norman Yao: A Landau Theory of Scalable Spin Squeezing

Location:MIT 4-270
Norman Yao, Harvard
Ten Minute Talk:"Modular optics subsystems for AMO" by Felix Knollmann, MIT
Quantum metrology makes use of structured entanglement to perform measurements with greater precision than would be possible with only classically correlated particles. A paradigmatic example of such entanglement is spin squeezing, which is known to be dynamically generated by the celebrated one-axis-twisting model, corresponding to an all-to-all coupled Ising Hamiltonian. Motivated by recent advances in...
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CUA Seminar Series