Publications

2012

M. M. Wilde, P. Hayden, S. Guha, “Quantum trade-off coding for bosonic communication,” Phys. Rev. A 86, 062306 (Dec. 06, 2012). Marcus P. da Silva, S. Guha, Z. Dutton, “Achieving minimum-error discrimination of an arbitrary set of laser-light pulses,” Submitted (Sep. 03, 2012).

E. Magesan, J.M. Gambetta, B.R. Johnson, C.A. Ryan, J.M. Chow, S.T. Merkel, M.P. da Silva, G.A. Keefe, M.B. Rothwell, T.A. Ohki, M.B. Ketchen, and M. Steffen, “Efficient Measurement of Quantum Gate Error by Interleaved Randomized Benchmarking,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 080505 (Aug. 24, 2012).

O. Moussa, M. P. da Silva, C. A. Ryan, R. Laflamme, “Practical experimental certification of computational quantum gates via twirling,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 070504 (Aug. 17, 2012).

R. Nair, B. J. Yen, S. Guha, J. H. Shapiro and S. Pirandola, “Symmetric M-ary phase discrimination using quantum-optical probe states,” Phys. Rev. A., 86, 022306 (Aug. 07, 2012).

Félix Beaudoin, Marcus P. da Silva, Zachary Dutton, and Alexandre Blais, “First-order sidebands in circuit QED using qubit frequency modulation,” Phys. Rev. A 86, 022305 (Aug. 03, 2012).

L. Steffen, M. P. da Silva, A. Fedorov, M. Baur, A. Wallraff, “Experimental Monte Carlo Quantum Process Certification,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 260506 (Jun. 28, 2012).

J.M. Gambetta, A.D. Corcoles, S.T. Merkel, B.R. Johnson, J.A. Smolin, J.M. Chow, C.A. Ryan, C. Rigetti, S. Poletto, T.A. Ohki, M.B. Ketchen, M. Steffen, “Characterization of addressability by simultaneous randomized benchmarking,” Accepted in PRL (Apr. 27, 2012).

M. M. Wilde, P. Hayden and S. Guha, “Information trade-offs for optical quantum communication,” Phys. Rev. Lett., 108, 140501 (Apr. 02, 2012).

M. Baur, A. Fedorov, L. Steffen, S. Filipp, M. P. da Silva, A. Wallraff, “Benchmarking a Quantum Teleportation Protocol in Superconducting Circuits Using Tomography and an Entanglement Witness,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 040502 (Jan. 24, 2012).

A. Fedorov, L. Steffen, M. Baur, M. P. da Silva, A. Wallraff, “Implementation of a Toffoli gate with superconducting circuits,” Nature 481, 170–172 (Jan. 12, 2012).

J. S. Kline, M. R. Vissers, F. C. S. da Silva, D. S. Wisbey, M. Weides, Y. Shalibo, N. Katz, B. R. Johnson, T. A. Ohki, D. P. Pappas, “Sub-micrometer epitaxial Josephson junctions for quantum circuits,” Supercond. Sci. Technol. 25 (Jan. 01, 2012).

J. Chen, J. L. Habif, Z. Dutton, R. Lazarus, S. Guha, “Optical codeword demodulation with error rates below standard quantum limit using a conditional nulling receiver,” Nature Photonics (Jan. 01, 2012).

2011

M. Weides, J. S. Kline, M. R. Vissers, M.O. Sandberg D. S. Wisbey, B. R. Johnson, T. A. Ohki, D. P. Pappas, “Coherence in a transmon qubit with epitaxial tunnel junctions,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 99 (Dec. 01, 2011).

M. P. da Silva, O. Landon-Cardinal, and D. Poulin, “Practical Characterization of Quantum Devices without Tomography,” Phys. Rev. Lett., 107, 210404 (Nov. 16, 2011).

S. Guha, P. Basu, C.-K. Chau and R. Gibbens, “Green Wave Sleep Scheduling: Optimizing Latency and Throughput in Duty Cycling Wireless Networks,” IEEE Journal of Special Areas in Communications (JSAC) (Sep. 08, 2011).

Jerry M. Chow, A.D. Corcoles, Jay M. Gambetta, Chad Rigetti, B.R. Johnson, John A. Smolin, J.R. Rozen, George A. Keefe, Mary B. Rothwell, Mark B. Ketchen, M. Steffen, “Simple all-microwave entangling gate for fixed-frequency superconducting qubits,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 080502 (Jan. 01, 2011).

Hanhee Paik, D.I. Schuster, Lev S. Bishop, G. Kirchmair, G. Catelani, A.P. Sears, B.R. Johnson, M.J. Reagor, L. Frunzio, L.I. Glazman, S.M. Girvin, M.H. Devoret, and R.J. Schoelkopf, “Observation of high coherence in Josephson junction qubits measured in a three-dimensional circuit QED architecture,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 240501 (Jan. 01, 2011).

S. Guha, “Structured optical receivers to attain superadditive capacity and the Holevo limit,” Phys. Rev. Lett., 106, 240502 (Jan. 01, 2011).

S. Guha, J. L. Habif, and M. Takeoka, “Approaching Helstrom limits to optical pulse-position demodulation using single-photon detection and optical feedback,,” J. of Modern Optics, Volume 58, Issue 3, 257 (Jan. 01, 2011).

2010

W. Kelly, Z. Dutton, J. Schlafer, B. Mookerji, T. Ohki, J. Kline, D. Pappas, “Direct Observation of Coherent Population Trapping in a Superconducting Artificial Atom,,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 163601 (Jan. 01, 2010).

Z. Dutton, J.H. Shapiro, S. Guha, “LADAR resolution improvement using receivers enhanced with squeezed-vacuum injection and phase-sensitive amplification,,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27, A63--A72 (Jan. 01, 2010).

A. Shabaev, Z. Dutton, T. A. Kennedy, and Al. L. Efros, “Slow-light propagation using mode locking of spin precession in quantum dots,,” Phys. Rev. A 82, 053823 (Jan. 01, 2010).

G. Brummer, R. Rafique, T. A. Ohki, “Phase and Amplitude Modulator for Microwave Pulse Generation,,” IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity (Jan. 01, 2010).

J. L. Habif, “Quantum Cryptographic Networks,,” Technology Today, Issue 1 (Jan. 01, 2010).

2009

S. Guha and B. I. Erkmen, “Receiver Design for Gaussian state Quantum Illumination,” Phys. Rev. A 80, 052310 (Jan. 01, 2009).

M. R. Rafique, T. A. Ohki, P. Linner and A. Herr, “Niobium Tunable Microwave Filters,” IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., 57, 5, 1 (Jan. 01, 2009).

F.K. Fatemi, M.L. Terraciacno, M. Bashkansky, and Z. Dutton, “Cold atom Raman spectrography using velocity-selective resonances,,” Optics Express 17, 12971-12980 (Jan. 01, 2009).

F.K. Fatemi, M.L. Terraciacno, Z. Dutton, and M. Bashkansky, “Imaging velocity selective resonaces in a magnetic field,,” J. of Modern Optics 56, 2022-2028 (Jan. 01, 2009).

C. Florea, M. Bashkansky, J. Sanghera, I. Aggarwal, Z. Dutton, “Slow-light generation through a Brillouin scattering in As2S3 fibers,,” Optical Materials 32, 358-361 (Jan. 01, 2009).

2008

S. Guha, T. Hogg, D. Fattal, T. Spiller, and R. G. Beausoleil, “Quantum Auctions using Adiabatic Evolution: The Corrupt Auctioneer and Circuit Implementations,,” International Journal of Quantum Information, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Jan. 01, 2008).

S.-H. Tan, B. I. Erkmen, V. Giovannetti, S. Guha, S. Lloyd, L. Maccone, S. Pirandola, and J. H. Shapiro, “Quantum Illumination using Gaussian States,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 253601 (Jan. 01, 2008).

M. R. Rafique, T. A. Ohki, B. Banik, H. Engseth, P Linner and A. Herr, “Miniaturized Filters for Superconducting Microwave Filters,” Supercond. Sci. Technol. 21 075004 (Jan. 01, 2008).

2007

S. Guha, J. H. Shapiro, and B. I. Erkmen, “Capacities of Bosonic broadcast communications and a new minimum output entropy conjecture,” Phys. Rev. A 76, 032303 (Sep. 04, 2007).

G. D. Forney, M. Grassl, and S. Guha, “Convolutional and tail-biting quantum error-correcting codes,” IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, Vol. 53, No. 3 (Mar. 01, 2007).

2006

R. Hadfield, J.L. Habif, J. Schlafer, R. Schwall and S.W. Nam, “Quantum key distribution at 1550 nm with twin superconducting single-photon detectors,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 241129 (Dec. 15, 2006)

M. Jaspan, J.L. Habif, R. Hadfield and S.W. Nam, “Heralding of telecommunication photon pairs with a superconducting single photon detector,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 031112 (Jul. 19, 2006)

2005

J. H. Shapiro, S. Guha and B. I. Erkmen, “Ultimate channel capacity of free-space optical communications,” The Journal of Optical Networking: Special Issue (invited) (Jul. 22, 2005).

2004

V. Giovannetti, S. Guha, S. Lloyd, L. Maccone, and J. H. Shapiro, “Minimum output entropy of bosonic channels: a conjecture,” Phys. Rev. A 70, 032315 (Sep. 21, 2004).

V. Giovannetti, S. Guha, S. Lloyd, L. Maccone, J. H. Shapiro, and H. P. Yuen, “Classical capacity of the lossy bosonic channel: the exact solution,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 027902 (Jan. 15, 2004).

2001

P. Ghose, A. S. Majumdar, S. Guha, and J. Sau, “Bohmian trajectories for photons,” Phys. Lett. A 290, 205--213 (Nov. 19, 2001).

Conference Presentations & Proceedings

2013

Saikat Guha, “Attaining the quantum limit of optical communications,” The 43rd Winter Colloquium on Physics of Quantum Electronics, Snowbird UT, January 7, 2013 (Invited Talk, Workshop).

2012

Saikat Guha, “The role of quantum optics in realizing optimal detection of laser light waveforms Communication at the Holevo limit,” Entangled Coherent States and its applications to Macroscopic Quantum Communications, Tamagawa University, Tokyo, November 28, 2012 (Invited Talk, Workshop).

Saikat Guha, “How many bits can a photon carry?,” Seminar organized by Sriram Ramaswamy, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Hyderabad, India, August 13, 2012 (Invited Talk, Seminar).

Saikat Guha, Mark M. Wilde, “Polar coding to achieve the Holevo capacity of a pure-loss optical channel,” International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Cambridge, MA), July 2, 2012 (Contributed Talk, Proceedings Paper).

Saikat Guha, Ranjith Nair, Brent J. Yen, Jeffrey H. Shapiro, Stefano Pirandola, “Quantum M-ary Phase Shift Keying,” International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Cambridge, MA, July 2, 2012 (Contributed Talk, Proceedings Paper).

Mark M. Wilde, Saikat Guha, Si-Hui Tan, Seth Lloyd, “Explicit Receivers for Optical Communication and Quantum Reading,” International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Cambridge, MA, July 2, 2012 (Contributed Talk, Proceedings Paper).

Saikat Guha, “Attaining the Holevo limit for optical communication: Optimal codes and joint detection receivers,” Seminar organized by Prem Kumar, Northwestern University, June 21, 2012 (Invited Talk, Seminar).

Saikat Guha, Jeffrey H. Shapiro, Zachary Dutton, Ranjith Nair, Brent J. Yen, Mark M. Wilde, Si-Hui Tan, “Capacity of Quantum Reading,” McGill University CQIL/CS seminar, March 29, 2012 (Invited Talk, Seminar).

Saikat Guha, Mark M. Wilde, “Polar codes for achieving the classical capacity of a quantum channel,” APS March Meeting, Feb 27, 2012 (Contributed Talk).

Zachary Dutton, Saikat Guha, Jian Chen, Jonathan Habif, Richard Lazarus, “Improved coded optical communication error rates using joint detection receivers,” APS March Meeting, February 27, 2012 (Contributed Talk).

Saikat Guha, “Attaining the ultimate limit of classical information transmission over an optical channel,” Seminar organized by Warren Grice, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, February 02, 2012 (Invited Talk, Seminar).

Marcus P. da Silva, J. M. Gambetta, “Joint tomography of state preparations and measurements,” APS March Meeting, Feb 27--March 2 (2012) (Contributed Talk).

Olivier Landon-Cardinal, Marcus P. da Silva, Steven T. Flammia, Yi-Kai Liu and David Poulin, “Practical characterization of quantum devices without tomography,” APS March Meeting, Feb 27--March 2 (2012) (Contributed Talk).

Olivier Landon-Cardinal, Marcus P. da Silva, Steven T. Flammia, Yi-Kai Liu and David Poulin, “Practical characterization of quantum devices without tomography,” Quantum Information Processing (QIP) 2012 workshop, Dec 12--16 (2011) (Contributed Talk).