Low-level Hardware Abstraction
Stefan Krastanov, CS & Physics

We work on the design, control, and optimization of quantum hardware for computation and networking, from its analog physical description up to the compilation of error-corrected logical circuitry running on it. Our research centers around leaky abstraction boundaries between the many layers of technologies making up the field of quantum computing and quantum information science.

Trapped Ions and Photonics
Robert Niffenegger, Engineering

The UMass+ Trapped Ions and Photonics lab develops integrated technologies like photonics for trapped ion QPUs. Developing trapped ion QPUs with integrated photonics may enable the next generation of quantum hardware towards large scale quantum computers and portable operation of quantum sensors like optical clocks.

Superconducting Circuit Devices
Chen Wang, Physics

We work in the field of superconducting circuit devices for quantum information processing, with a focus on improving the performance of superconducting quantum bits (qubits) on both the physical and the (error-corrected) logical level.

Quantum Network Control
Gayane Vardoyan, CS

One focus of the group is to develop efficient entanglement distribution algorithms, often inspired both by analytical models of quantum network architectures, as well as techniques found in classical networking literature. In general, the group is interested in addressing the many challenges pertaining to distributed quantum systems, as well as seeking new quantum-enabled possibilities and applications.

Optical Quantum Information Science and Technology
Rajveer Nehra, Engineering

We are a multidisciplinary team of physicists, engineers, and computer scientists working on the experimental and theoretical aspects of quantum information science and technology. Our research aims at the scalable implementation of quantum technologies at room temperature. We use quantum optics, quantum information science, and nanophotonic engineering tools to develop quantum information systems and devices for applications in computation, communication, sensing, and metrology.

Quantum Repeater Architecture
Filip Rozpedek, CS

We work on developing novel ways of transferring quantum information over long distances and generating long distance entanglement. Our work investigates new strategies of utilizing quantum error correction in quantum repeater architectures. In particular we are interested in designing hybrid repeater schemes that combine resource-expensive error correction with more near-term techniques of remote entanglement generation, which have already been demonstrated in recent proof-of-principle experiments.

Non-equilibrium quantum dynamics
Romain Vasseur, Physics

We work on various aspects of the dynamics of quantum information in many-body quantum systems. Topics of interest include the study of tensor networks and random quantum circuits through mappings onto classical statistical mechanics models. We are especially interested in questions related to the complexity of tensor network contractions and monitored dynamics, and in designing decoders and classifiers that reveal how much information can be extracted from measuring a quantum system.

Advanced Classical & Quantum Information Research (ACQuIRE) Lab
Don Towsley, CS

Our goal is to ACQuIRE the knowledge needed to design, analyze and manage new quantum information systems. This includes new network architectures, protocols, and algorithms for generation, distribution, and storage of multi-partite entanglement in the presence of noise that will be useful for quantum security, sensing, and computing applications. Other research topics include distributed quantum computing, performance evaluation, and quantum network tomography. Last, we work with experimentalists at UMass and in the NSF funded Center for Quantum Networks.