Milad Marvian, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of New Mexico and a member of the Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC), has been selected for the Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Research Program Award.
The DOE Early Career Awards are intended to provide long-term support to promising early-career scientists and engineers at universities and national laboratories.
“It is exciting to pursue fundamental research that has the potential to directly advance technologies for controlling quantum systems,” Marvian said. “This recognition and support by DOE is very encouraging and enables my group to further pursue novel approaches in designing robust control protocols to harness the power of quantum systems in processing information.”
Marvian’s five-year project, titled “Randomized Protocols for Robust Quantum Optimal Control and Noise Characterization,” will focus on developing strategies to reduce noise in quantum processors. The project aims to design randomized quantum optimal control protocols to implement noise-resilient quantum gates and improve methods for characterizing noise. Achieving precise control of quantum systems despite noise is a major challenge in the development of large-scale, reliable quantum processors.
The research will build on recent findings from Marvian’s group, which indicate that randomization can help reduce noise in quantum systems. “I expect that by leveraging randomized protocols, our approach can substantially reduce systematic errors arising from imperfect calibration or slowly varying environmental fluctuations in quantum processors, thereby improving the overall fidelity of quantum operations,” Marvian said.
In 2023, Marvian also received a National Science Foundation Early CAREER Award for research on reliable quantum computation and the development of low-overhead quantum error correction and fault-tolerant schemes.
