Masoud Mohseni

Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
12 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
Office: M 111
Telephone: (617) 495-9676
Fax: (617) 496-9411
Email: masoud@chemistry.harvard.edu

Education

Ph.D. in Physics, University of Toronto (2006), Advisor: Prof. Daniel A. Lidar
Thesis title: "Characterization and Decoherence Control of Open Quantum Systems"
Visiting Scholar at University of Southern California, Department of Chemistry (2005-2006)
M.Sc. in Physics, University of Toronto (2002), Advisor: Prof. Aephraim M. Steinberg
B.Sc. in Applied Physics, University of Tehran

Research Interests

• Quantum information and quantum computation: quantum simulation, error correction/prevention, fault-tolerant computation, quantum computing in presence of correlated errors, quantum computation from naturally available interactions, quantum information processing with linear optics, solid-state quantum computing architectures

• Characterization of quantum dynamical systems: fundamental and practical problems in quantum measurement, quantum metrology, quantum state discrimination/estimation, quantum state and process tomography, direct characterization of quantum dynamics, partial characterization of quantum dynamics, Hamiltonian identification

• Quantum control theory: quantum feedback control

Selected Publications

• M. Mohseni, P. Rebentrost, S. Lloyd, A. Aspuru-Guzik, "Environment-Assisted Quantum Walks in Energy Transfer of Photosynthetic Complexes", available: arxiv:0805.2741.
• M. Mohseni, A. T. Rezakhani, "Dynamical Evolution of Superoperator for Identification and Control of Quantum Hamiltonian Systems", available at arXiv:0805.3188 .
• M. Mohseni and D. A. Lidar, “Direct Characterization of Quantum Dynamics”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 170501 (2006).
• M. Mohseni and D. A. Lidar, “Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation via Exchange Interactions”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 40507 (2005).
• M. Mohseni, J. A. Bergou, and A. M. Steinberg, “Optical realization of optimal unambiguous discrimination for pure and mixed quantum states”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 , 200403 (2004).
• M. Mohseni, J. S. Lundeen, K. J. Resch, A. M Steinberg, “Experimental application of decoherence-free subspaces in an optical quantum-computing algorithm”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 187903 (2003).

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