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Cesar A. Rodriguez-Rosario

Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard University
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
12 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA 02138
Office: M 110
(617) 495-9676
Blog: Minus Two Fish

Education

Ph.D. in Physics, The University of Texas at Austin (2008)
Advisor: Prof. E.C.George Sudarshan
Thesis: "The Theory of Non-Markovian Open Quantum Systems"

B.S. in Computer Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (2001)

Research Interests

Open Quantum Systems, Quantum Effects in Biological Systems, Energy Transfer, Quantum Chemistry, Decoherence Control, Quantum Optics, Quantum Computation, Quantum Entanglement, Statistical Mechanics, Solid State Physics, Particle Physics, Density Functional Theory, Biophysics, Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, History of Physics

Video Abstracts

• Quantum stochastic walks: A generalization of classical random walks and quantum walks

Papers

• C. A. Rodriguez-Rosario, K. Modi, A. Aspuru-Guzik. Linear Assignment Maps for Correlated System-Environment States. arXiv:quant-ph 0910.5568 (2009).

• C. A. Rodriguez-Rosario, J. D. Whitfield. A. Aspuru-Guzik. Quantum stochastic walks: A generalization of classical random walks and quantum walks. arXiv:quant-ph 0905.2942 (2009).

• J. Yuen-Zhou, C. Rodriguez-Rosario, A. Aspuru-Guzik. Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory for Open Quantum Systems using Closed Systems. arXiv:cond-mat 0902.4505 (2009).

• J. Yuen-Zhou, C. Rodriguez-Rosario, A. Aspuru-Guzik. Time-dependent current-
  density functional theory for generalized open quantum systems. PCCP 11, 4509, (2009). [Part of special issue of TD-DFT, selected as a Hot Article]

• C. A. Rodriguez-Rosario and E. C. G. Sudarshan. Non-Markovian Open Quantum Systems. arXiv:quant-ph 0803.1183 (2008).

• A. Kuah, K. Modi, C. A. Rodríguez-Rosario, and E. C. G. Sudarshan.
  How state preparation can affect a quantum experiment: Quantum process tomography for open systems. Phys. Rev. A 76 042113 (2007). [arXiv version]

• C. A. Rodriguez-Rosario, K. Modi, A. Kuah, A. Shaji, E. C. G. Sudarshan.
  Completely Positive Maps and Classical Correlations. J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 41 205301 (2008). [arXiv version]

• C. A. Rodriguez, A. Shaji and E. C. G. Sudarshan. Dynamics of Two Qubits: Decoherence and an Entanglement Optimization Protocol. arXiv:quant-ph 0504051 (2006).

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Curriculum Vitae

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Updated on November 09