Marcus P. Da Silva
Scientist
Marcus obtained a Ph.D. in Physics from U. of Waterloo, Canada, under the supervision of Prof. Raymond Laflamme and Prof. Frank Wilhelm. After holding an NSERC post-doctoral fellowship at Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec, working with Prof. Alexandre Blais and Prof. David Poulin, Marcus joined the Quantum Information Processing group at Raytheon BBN Technologies as a theorist.
Publications
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).
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).
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).
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).
Talks
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).
