Thomas Propson
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I'm a third-year PhD student at MIT. My research focuses on developing scalable technologies for quantum computing on atomic qubits. I'm advised by Dirk Englund. I completed my undergrad at UChicago where I was advised by David Schuster and Fred Chong.

Publications

Scalable Photonic Integrated Circuits for Programmable Control of Atomic Systems

A. J. Menssen, A. Hermans, I. Christen, T. Propson, C. Li, A. Leenheer, M. Zimmermann, M. Dong, H. Larocque, H. Raniwala, G. Gilbert, M. Eichenfield, D. R. Englund


An Integrated Photonic Engine for Programmable Atomic Control

I. Christen, M. Sutula, T. Propson, H. Sattari, G. Choong, C. Panuski, A. Melville, J. Mallek, S. Hamilton, P. B. Dixon, A. J. Menssen, D. Braje, A. H. Ghadimi, D. R. Englund.


Reducing Memory Requirements of Quantum Optimal Control

S. Narayanan, T. Propson, M. Bongarti, J. Hueckelheim, P. Hovland.


Robust Quantum Optimal Control with Trajectory Optimization

Phys. Rev. Applied 17(1), 014036 (2022).

T. Propson, B. E. Jackson, Z. Manchester, J. Koch, D. I. Schuster.


Systematic Crosstalk Mitigation for Superconducting Qubits via Frequency-Aware Compilation

Proceedings of the 53rd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, 201-214 (2020).

Y. Ding, P. Gokhale, S. F. Lin, R. Rines, T. Propson, F. T. Chong.


Partial Compilation of Variational Algorithms for Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Machines

Proceedings of the 52nd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, 266-278 (2019).

P. Gokhale, Y. Ding, T. Propson, C. Winkler, N. Leung, Y. Shi, D. I. Schuster, H. Hoffmann, F. T. Chong.

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