Mazyar MIRRAHIMI

Born 27/07/1981,

Email : mazyar.mirrahimi@inria.fr

URL : www-rocq.inria.fr/who/Mazyar.Mirrahimi/

Position 

Since Nov 2013 Head of INRIA-ENS-Mines QUANTIC team (https://team.inria.fr/quantic);

Since Oct 2012 INRIA Director of research (DR2);

Since Feb 2011 Visiting Research Scientist, Applied Physics, Yale Univ;

Oct 2006-Oct 2012 INRIA Research Fellow (CR1), INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt.

Education

2003-2005 Ph.D. in Mathematics and Control Engineering, Ecole des Mines de Paris, France.

Awarded with first class honors, Nov 23rd, 2005.

Dissertation : « Dynamics and Control of Quantum Systems ».

Advisor : Prof. Pierre Rouchon.

2002-2003 M.Sc. in Numerical Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, University Paris VI,

First class Honors.

2000-2002 Engineering Diploma from Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France.

1999-2000 Mathematics Department, Sharif Univ. of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

Research topics

Applied Mathematics and Control theory: Nonlinear dynamical systems, Geometric control theory, Control of partial and stochastic differential equations (controllability and stabilization), inverse problems for wave and Schrödinger type equations.

Physics: Quantum information and quantum optics, Circuit/Cavity quantum electrodynamics, Superconducting artificial atoms, Generation and protection of non-classical states of microwave radiation, Quantum dissipation engineering, Quantum measurement and feedback.

Long term research visits

· Visiting research scientist, Applied Physics Department, Yale University: Through a two-year stay from Feb 2011 to Feb 2013, I collaborated with the teams of M.H. Devoret and R.J. Schoelkopf. This was followed by regular 4-months stays during the fall semesters of each year as a visiting research scientist. During these visits I supervised various theoretical work related or leading to the experiments on variable-strength measurement of quantum systems, dynamical cooling of superconducting qubits, autonomous stabilization of entangled states, generation of Schrödinger cat states, photon-number parity measurements and hardware-efficient quantum error correction.

· Physics Department, California Institute of Technology: Through two stays, as visiting PhD student (May-June 2005) and as visiting associate (Jan-March 2007), I collaborated with H. Mabuchi's team. Through these visits, I developed stabilizing feedback tools for some generic quantum systems. Later on, we applied these tools in an experiment performed by S. Haroche’s group at Ecole Normale Supérieure on the feedback stabilization of photon number states of a microwave cavity mode probed by a stray of Rydberg atoms (this led to the first experiment where an active feedback protocol was used in real-time to stabilize a quantum state and was highlighted in the 2012 Nobel prize of S. Haroche).

Supervision experience

(Postdoc) Nicolas Didier (2015-),

« Fault-tolerant remote entanglement for superconducting qubits ».

(Postdoc) Ram Abhinav Somaraju (2010-2011);

« Stabilization of infinite-dimensional quantum systems subject to QND measurement ».

(Postdoc) Marianne Chapouly (2009-2010);

« Estimation problems for wave-type equations ».

(PhD) Joachim Cohen (2013-on going) ;

« Towards fault-tolerant quantum computation adapted to circuit QED experiments ».

(PhD) Zaki Leghtas (2009-2012);

« Preparation and stabilization of quantum systems ».

(PhD) Hadis Amini (2009-2012);

«Stabilization of discrete-time quantum systems and stability of continuous-time quantum filters».

(PhD) Filippo Visco Comandini (2008-2011);

« Inverse scattering on networks ».

(PhD) Ananda Roy, (Feb-July 2013) ; Ananda is a PhD candidate at Yale (advisors: Douglas Stone and Michel Devoret) and was a visiting PhD student with me for 6 months.

«  microwave generator of Schrödinger cat states".

(PhD) Ashley Donovan (June-July 2009), Ashley was a PhD candidate at Princeton (advisor: Herschel Rabitz) and was a visiting PhD student with me for 2 months.

« Quantum state reconstruction in presence of decoherence.

(MSc) I regularly supervise MSc level internships, in particular from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines de Paris.

Teaching experience (graduate level)

· Quantum systems: Dynamics and Control: Master’s course, Master of Numerical Analysis and Partial Differential Equations (Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie).

· Modeling and Control of Quantum Systems: PhD course, doctoral school of Mathematics (Mines Paristech) & doctoral school of Physics (Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie); Course as a part of a semester on control at Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris.

· Control of Partial Differential Equations: MSc course, Irano-european master in mathematics, organized in Tehran by the math department, Univ. de Versailles, France.

Fellowships and honors

· Ranked 1^st, competitive national competition for INRIA’s director of research positions, 2012;

· INRIA’s Direction of International Relation’s fellowship for a sabbatical year at Yale (2011-2012);

· AMX doctoral fellowship, French Ministry of Research, France (2003-2006);

· EGIDE fellowship for graduate studies, France (2002-2003);

· Foundation of the Ecole Polytechnique Fellowship, France (2000-2002);

· Silver medal of the 40^th International Mathematics Olympiad, Bucharest, Romania (1999).

Funding I.D.

· Project coordinator and principal investigator, ANR GEARED: Reservoir engineering quantum entanglement in the microwave domain (2014-2018).

· Principal Investigator, ANR Jeunes Chercheurs: EPOQ2: Estimation problems for quantum and quantum-like systems (2009-2013); this project was selected and highlighted in the 2013 annual report of Agence Nationale de la Recherche.

· Participant ANR SODDA: Soft defects diagnosis in wired networks (2012-2015).

· Participant TOCOSUQI PSL* project: Tools for the control of superconducting quantum circuits (2013-2015).

· Participant ANR 0-DEFECT: On-board fault diagnosis for wired networks in automotive systems (2009-2012.

· Participant ANR INSCAN: Fault diagnosis for security critical long distance electric transmission lines (2009-2012).

Selected professional activities and services to the community

· Technical Committee "Distributed Parameter Systems", IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control);

· Regular organization of workshops and schools in quantum information:

- Co-organizer, PRACQSYS'14 (Principles & Applications of Control in Quantum Systems), Cambridge (UK).

- Co-organizer, PRACQSYS'13, Monterey, California.

- Organizer, CEA-EDF-INRIA school on « Quantum Information, Measurement and Feedback Control »,

2011, Rocquencourt, France.

- Co-organizer, invited sessions on Quantum Control, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2009, Shanghai.

· Associate editor: System and Control Letters (since 2010);

· Reviewer: Journal of Functional Analysis, Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré, Automatica, IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, SIAM J. Control and Optimization, System and Control Letters, International Journal of Control, European Journal of Control, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, IFAC World Congress, Physical Review journals, Journal of Physics A, New Journal of Physics, Reviews of Modern Physics.

Journal publications

• (E.T. Holland, B. Vlastakis, R.W. Heeres, M.J. Reagor, U. Vool, Z. Leghtas, L. Frunzio, G. Kirchmair, M.H. Devoret, M. Mirrahimi and R.J. Schoelkopf) Single-photon Resolved Cross-Kerr Interaction for Autonomous Stabilization of Photon-number States, Submitted, 2015, preprint at: ArXiv:1504.03382.
• (B. Vlastakis, A. Petrenko, N. Ofek, L. Sun, Z. Leghtas, K. Sliwa, Y. Liu, M. Hatridge, J. Blumoff, L. Frunzio, M. Mirrahimi, L. Jiang, M.H. Devoret, R.J. Schoelkopf) Violating Bell’s inequality with an artificial atom and a cat state in a cavity, Submitted, 2015, preprint at: ArXiv:1504.02512.
• (V.V. Albert, S. Krastanov, C. Shen, R.-B. Liu, R.J. Schoelkopf, M. Mirrahimi, M.H. Devoret and L. Jiang) Holonomic quantum computing with cat-codes, Submitted, 2015, preprint at: ArXiv:1503.00194.
• (Z. Leghtas, S. Touzard, I.M. Pop, A. Kou, B. Vlastakis, A. Petrenko, K.M. Sliwa, A. Narla, S. Shankar, M.J. Hatridge, M. Reagor, L. Frunzio, R.J. Schoelkopf, M. Mirrahimi and M.H. Devoret) Confining the state of light to a quantum manifold by engineered two-photon loss, Science 347, 853-857, 2015.
• (A. Roy, Z. Leghtas, A.D. Stone, M.H. Devoret and M. Mirrahimi) Continuous generation and stabilization of mesoscopic field superposition states in a quantum circuit, Phys. Rev. A, 91, 013810, 2014, preprint at: ArXiv:1411.0979.
• (J. Cohen and M. Mirrahimi) Dissipation-induced continuous quantum error correction for superconducting circuits, Phys. Rev. A, 90, 062344, 2014, preprint at: ArXiv:1409.6759.
• (U. Vool, I.M. Pop, K. Sliwa, B. Abdo, C. Wang, T. Brecht, Y.Y. Gao, S. Shankar, M. Hatridge, G. Catelani, M. Mirrahimi, L. Frunzio, R.J. Schoelkopf, L.I. Glazman and M.H. Devoret) Non-Poissonian quantum jumps of a Fluxonium qubit due to quasiparticle excitations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 247001, 2014, preprint at: ArXiv:1406.1769.
• (L. Sun, A. Petrenko, Z. Leghtas, B. Vlastakis, G. Kirchmair, K.M. Sliwa, A. Narla, M. Hatridge, S. Shankar, J. Blumoff, L. Frunzio, M. Mirrahimi, M.H. Devoret and R.J. Schoelkopf) Tracking photon jumps with repeated quantum non-demolition parity measurements, Nature 511, 444-448, 2014.
• (M. Mirrahimi, Z. Leghtas, V. Albert, S. Touzard, R.J. Schoelkopf, L. Jiang, M.H. Devoret) Dynamically protected cat-qubits: a new paradigm for universal quantum computation, New J. of Physics, 16, 045014, 2014, preprint at: ArXiv:1312.2017.
• (S. Shankar, M. Hatridge, Z. Leghtas, K.M. Sliwa, A. Narla, U. Vool, S.M. Girvin, L. Frunzio, M. Mirrahimi, M.H. Devoret) Autonomously stabilized entanglement between two superconducting quantum bits, Nature 504, 419-422, 2013.
• (B. Vlastakis, G. Kirchmair, Z. Leghtas, S.E. Nigg, L. Frunzio, S.M. Girvin, M. Mirrahimi, M.H. Devoret and R.J. Schoelkopf) Deterministically encoding quantum information using 100-photon Schrödinger cat states, Science 342: 607-610, 2013.
• (Z. Leghtas, G. Kirchmair, B. Vlastakis, R. Schoelkopf, M. Devoret and M. Mirrahimi) Hardware-efficient autonomous quantum memory protection, Phys. Rev. Lett., 111, 120501, 2013, preprint at ArXiv:1207.0679.
• (P. Campagne-Ibarcq, E. Flurin, N. Roch, D. Darson, P. Morfin, M. Mirrahimi, M.H. Devoret, F. Mallet, B. Huard) Stabilizing the trajectory of a superconducting qubit by projective measurement feedback, Phys. Rev. X, 3, 021008, 2013, preprint at: ArXiv:1301.6095.
• (Z. Leghtas, U. Vool, S. Shankar, M. Hatridge, S.M. Girvin, M. Devoret, and M. Mirrahimi) Stabilizing a Bell state of two superconducting qubits by dissipation engineering, Phys. Rev. A, 88 : 023849, 2013, preprint at : ArXiv:1303.3918.
• (G. Kirchmair, B. Vlastakis, Z. Leghtas, S.E. Nigg, H. Paik, E. Ginossar, M. Mirrahimi, L. Frunzio, S.M. Girvin, R.J. Schoelkopf) Observation of quantum state collapse and revival due to the single-photon Kerr effect, Nature 495: 205-209, 2013.
• (M. Hatridge, S. Shankar, M. Mirrahimi, F. Schackert, K. Geerlings, T. Brecht, K.M. Sliwa, B. Abdo, L. Frunzio, S.M. Girvin, R.J. Schoelkopf, M.H. Devoret) Quantum back-action of an individual variable-strength measurement, Science 339: 178-181, 2013.
• (K. Geerlings, Z. Leghtas, I.M. Pop, S. Shankar, L. Frunzio, R.J. Schoelkopf, M. Mirrahimi and M.H. Devoret) Demonstrating a driven reset protocol of a superconducting qubit, Phys. Rev. Lett., 110, 120501, 2013, preprint at: ArXiv:1211.0491.
• (Z. Leghtas, G. Kirchmair, B. Vlastakis, M. Devoret, R. Schoelkopf and M. Mirrahimi) Deterministic protocol for mapping a qubit to coherent state superspositions in a cavity, Phys. Rev. A, 87: 042315, 2013, preprint at: ArXiv:1205.2401.
• (H. Amini, A. Somaraju, I. Dotsenko, C. Sayrin, M. Mirrahimi and P. Rouchon) Feedback stabilization of discrete-time quantum systems subject to non-demolition measurements with imperfections and delays, Automatica, 49 (9): 2683-2692, 2013, preprint at: ArXiv:1201.1387.
• (A. Somaraju, M. Mirrahimi and P. Rouchon) Approximate stabilization of infinite dimensional quantum stochastic system, Reviews in Mathematical physics, 25, 1350001, 2013, preprint at: ArXiv:1103.1732.
• (H. Amini, M. Mirrahimi and P. Rouchon) Stabilization of a delayed quantum system: the Photon Box case-study, IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, 57 (8): 1918-1930, 2012, preprint at: ArXiv:1007.3584.
• (M. Chapouly and M. Mirrahimi) Distributed source identification for wave equations: an observer-based approach, IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, 57 (8): 2067-2073, 2012, preprint at: ArXiv:1005:5638.
• (C. Sayrin, I. Dotsenko, X. Zhou, B. Peaudecerf, T. Rybarczyk, S. Gleyzes, P. Rouchon, M. Mirrahimi, H. Amini, M. Brune, J.-M. Raimond and S. Haroche), Real-time quantum feedback prepares and stabilizes photon number states. Nature, 477: 73-77, 2011, ArXiv:1107.4027.
• (F. Visco Comandini, M. Mirrahimi and M. Sorine) Some inverse scattering problems on star-shaped graphs, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 378(1): 343-358, 2011, preliminary version: ArXiv:0907.1561.
• (I. Dotsenko, J. Bernu, S. Deléglise, C. Sayrin, M. Brune, J.-M. Raimond, S. Haroche, M. Mirrahimi and P. Rouchon) The quantum Zeno effect and quantum feedback in cavity QED, Physica Scripta, T140, 014004, 2010.
• (M. Mirrahimi and P. Rouchon) Real-time synchronization feedbacks for single-atom frequency standards, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 48 (4): 2820-2839, 2009, preprint at: ArXiv:0806.1392.
• (I. Dotsenko, M. Mirrahimi, M. Brune, S. Haroche, J.-M. Raimond and P. Rouchon) Quantum feedback by discrete quantum non-demolition measurements: towards on-demand generation of photon-number states, Physical Review A, 80: 013805-013813, 2009, preprint at: ArXiv:0905.0114.
• (M. Mirrahimi and P. Rouchon) Singular perturbations and Lindblad-Kossakowski differential equations, IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, 54 (6): 1325-1329, 2009, preprint at: ArXiv:0801.1602v1.
• (K. Beauchard and M. Mirrahimi) Practical stabilization of a quantum particle in a 1D infinite square potential well, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 48 (2): 1179-1205, 2009, preprint at: ArXiv:0801.1522v1.
• (S. Bonnabel, M. Mirrahimi and P. Rouchon) Observer-based Hamiltonian identification for quantum systems, Automatica, 45: 1144-1155, 2009.
• (M. Mirrahimi) Lyapunov control of a quantum particle in a decaying potential: Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré (c) Nonlinear Analysis, 26: 1743-1765, 2009, preprint at: ArXiv: 0805.0910.
• (M. Mirrahimi and R. Van Handel) Stabilizing feedback controls for quantum systems: SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 46 (2): 445-467, 2007.
• (K. Beauchard, J.M. Coron, M. Mirrahimi and P. Rouchon) Implicit Lyapunov control of finite dimensional Schrödinger equations: System and Control Letters, 56: 388-395, May 2007.
• (C. Le Bris, M. Mirrahimi, H. Rabitz and G. Turinici) Hamiltonian Identification for Quantum Systems: Well-posedness and Numerical Approaches: ESAIM: Control, Optimization and Calculus of Variations, 13 (2): 378-395, 2007.
• (M. Mirrahimi, P. Rouchon and G. Turinici) Lyapunov control of bilinear Schrödinger equations: Automatica, 41: 1987-1994, 2005.
• (M. Mirrahimi, G. Turinici and P. Rouchon) Reference trajectory tracking for locally designed coherent quantum controls, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 109, P. 2631-2637, 2005.