Lorenza Viola
James Frank Family Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Lorenza Viola is a theoretical physicist specializing in quantum information science. Following a Laurea (Master) degree in Physics from the University of Trento, Italy (1991), and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Padua, Italy (1996), she has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a J. R. Oppenheimer Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She joined Dartmouth College as an Associate Professor in 2004. She has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2014.
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Selected Publications
U. von Luepke, Y. Sung, F. Yan, F. Beaudoin, L. M. Norris, S. Gustavsson, L. Viola, and W. D. Oliver, "Two-qubit spectroscopy of spatio-temporally correlated quantum noise in superconducting qubits,'' Physical Review X Quantum 1, 010305 (2020).
V. P. Flynn, E. Cobanera, and L. Viola, "Deconstructing effective non-Hermitian dynamics in quadratic bosonic Hamiltonians,'' New Journal of Physics 22, 083004 (2020).
Y. Sung, F. Beaudoin, L. M. Norris, F. Yan, D. M. Kim, J. Y. Qiu, U. von Luepke, J. L. Yoder, T. P. Orlando, S. Gustavsson, L. Viola, and W. D. Oliver, "Non-Gaussian noise spectroscopy with a superconducting qubit sensor,'' Nature Communications 10, 3715 (2019).
F. Beaudoin, L. M. Norris, and L. Viola, "Ramsey interferometry in correlated quantum noise environments,'' Physical Review A 98, Rapid Communication, 020102 (2018).
V. M. Frey, S. Mavadia, L. M. Norris, W. de Ferranti, D. G. Lucarelli, L. Viola, and M. J. Biercuk, "Application of optimal band-limited control protocols to quantum noise sensing,'' Nature Communications 8, 2189 (2017).
A. Alase, E. Cobanera, G. Ortiz, and L. Viola, "Generalization of Bloch's theorem for arbitrary boundary conditions: Theory,'' Physical Review B 96, 195133 (2017). Selected as Editors' Suggestion.
A. Alase, E. Cobanera, G. Ortiz, and L. Viola, "Exact solution of quadratic fermionic Hamiltonians for arbitrary boundary conditions," Physical Review Letters 117, 076804 (2016).
L. M. Norris, G. A. Paz-Silva, and L. Viola, "Qubit noise spectroscopy for non-Gaussian dephasing environments,'' Physical Review Letters 116, 150503 (2016).
A. Poudel, G. Ortiz, and L. Viola, "Dynamical generation of Floquet Majorana flat bands in s-wave superconductors," Europhysics Letters 110, 17004 (2015).
G. Paz-Silva and L. Viola, "General transfer-function approach to noise filtering in open-loop quantum control," Physical Review Letters 113, 250501 (2014).
K. Khodjasteh, T. J. Green, J. Sastrawan, D. Hayes, M. J. Biercuk, and L. Viola, "Designing a practical high-fidelity long-time quantum memory,'' Nature Communications 4, 2045 (2013).
F. Ticozzi and L. Viola, "Stabilizing entangled states with quasi-local quantum dynamical semigroups,'' Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 370, 5259 (2012).
C. Ramanathan, P. Cappellaro, L. Viola, and D. G. Cory, "Experimental characterization of coherent magnetization transport in a one-dimensional spin system,'' New Journal of Physics 13, 103015 (2011).
K. Khodjasteh, D. A. Lidar, and L. Viola, Arbitrarily accurate dynamical control in open quantum systems,’’ Physical Review Letters 104, 090501 (2010).
R. Blume-Kohout, H. K. Ng, D. Poulin, and L. Viola, "Characterizing the structure of preserved information in quantum processes,'' Physical Review Letters 100, 030501 (2008).
H. Barnum, E. Knill, G. Ortiz, R. Somma, and L. Viola, "A subsystem-independent generalization of entanglement,'' Physical Review Letters 92, 107902 (2004).
Works in Progress
Quantum characterization and control of open quantum systems, quantum noise spectroscopy, noisy quantum metrology; quantum fault tolerance
Modeling and control of Markovian and non-Markovian open-system dynamics; quantum reservoir engineering
Topological quantum matter and bulk-boundary correspondence, fermionic and bosonic zero modes; quantum phase transitions
Non-Hermitian and open dynamics of quadratic fermionic and bosonic many-body systems; dynamical instabilities, dissipative phase transitions
Entanglement and generalized entanglement; monogamy and shareability, quantum marginals
Selected Works and Activities
Serving as a Divisional Associate Editor for Physical Review Letters
Partner Investigator with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS)