Zach Dutton
Quantum Information Processing Group Manager
Zac Dutton is manager of the Quantum Information Processing (QuIP) group.
He received my B.S. in physics at UC Berkeley (1996) and PhD in theoretical physics at Harvard (2002), in the group of Prof. Lene Hau. Following that he received a National Research Cnouncil post-doctoral fellowship at NIST-Gaithersburg with Dr. Charles Clark and was a staff physicist at the Naval Research Lab. He joined Raytheon BBN Technologies in 2007.
Dr. Dutton's PhD thesis explored electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) and slow light in Bose-Einstein condensates, work which instigated subsequent research into atomic enembles as quantum memories. Part of the work focused on using these tools to induce interesting superfluid dynamics, including the creation and motion of solitons and vortices. In subsequent research, he have pursued a variety of topics in cold atomic gases, low light level nonlinear optics, quantum memories, and coherent optical storage.
His resarch at Raytheon BBN has focused on quantum enhanced optical remote sensing (LIDAR), quantum networks, quantum limited communication receivers and codes, superconducting quantum circuits, and quantum computation. In addition he leads the business strategy and operations for the QuIP group.
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
Talks
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).
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).
