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Michael J. Fitzpatrick Distinguished Professor of Engineering
Pierre R. Lamond Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
701 W Main St, Suite 400, Durham, NC 27701
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Scholarly Works - Conferences


QPlacer: Frequency-Aware Component Placement for Superconducting Quantum Computers

Conference Proceedings International Symposium on Computer Architecture · June 21, 2025 Quantum Computers face a critical limitation in qubit numbers, hindering their progression towards large-scale and fault-tolerant quantum computing. A significant challenge impeding scaling is crosstalk, characterized by unwanted interactions among neighbo ... Full text Cite

Robust Syndrome Extraction via BCH Encoding

Conference IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings · January 1, 2024 Quantum data-syndrome (QDS) codes are a class of quantum error-correcting codes that protect against errors both on the data qubits and on the syndrome itself via redundant measurement of stabilizer group elements. One way to define a QDS code is to choose ... Full text Cite

Optimal Decoding of 2D Compass Codes under Coherent Noise

Conference Proceedings IEEE Quantum Week 2024 Qce 2024 · January 1, 2024 Coherent noise on the physical qubits can lead to coherent error on the logical qubits in a quantum error-corrected system, even if the best recovery operator is found. An optimal decoder under coherent noise finds the minimal angle of the logical, coheren ... Full text Cite

Few-Shot, Robust Calibration of Single Qubit Gates Using Bayesian Robust Phase Estimation

Conference Proceedings IEEE Quantum Week 2024 Qce 2024 · January 1, 2024 Accurate calibration of control parameters in quan-tum gates is crucial for high-fidelity operations, yet it represents a significant time and resource challenge, necessitating periods of downtime for quantum computers. Robust Phase Estimation (RPE) [8] ha ... Full text Cite

One-Time Compilation of Device-Level Instructions for Quantum Subroutines

Conference Proceedings IEEE Quantum Week 2024 Qce 2024 · January 1, 2024 A large class of problems in the current era of quantum devices involve interfacing between the quantum and classical system. These include calibration procedures, charac-terization routines, and variational algorithms. The control in these routines iterat ... Full text Cite

Graph-Based Pulse Representation for Diverse Quantum Control Hardware

Conference Proceedings IEEE Quantum Week 2024 Qce 2024 · January 1, 2024 Pulse-level control of quantum systems is critical for enabling gate implementations, calibration procedures, and Hamiltonian evolution which fundamentally are not supported by the traditional circuit model. This level of control necessitates both efficien ... Full text Cite

System-Agnostic Quantum Pulse Experiments Implemented with ARTIQ

Conference Proceedings IEEE Quantum Week 2024 Qce 2024 · January 1, 2024 In this work, we introduce a framework for designing system-agnostic quantum experiments at the pulse level. Our framework uses pulselib, a Python package for system-independent graphical representations of arbitrary pulses, as the domain-specific language ... Full text Cite

CAFQA: A Classical Simulation Bootstrap for Variational Quantum Algorithms

Conference International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems ASPLOS · March 25, 2023 Classical computing plays a critical role in the advancement of quantum frontiers in the NISQ era. In this spirit, this work uses classical simulation to bootstrap Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs). VQAs rely upon the iterative optimization of a parame ... Full text Cite

Control Infrastructure for Near-Term Long-Chain QCCD

Conference Proceedings 2023 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering Qce 2023 · January 1, 2023 Here, we propose a modular framework for representing and generating voltage solutions for near-term ion trap devices. Voltage graphs are separated into individual segments interconnected by shuttling paths through junctions managed by a Finite State Machi ... Full text Cite

QisDAX: An Open Source Bridge from Qiskit to Trapped-Ion Quantum Devices

Conference Proceedings 2023 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering Qce 2023 · January 1, 2023 Quantum computing has become widely available to researchers via cloud-hosted devices with different technologies using a multitude of software development frameworks. The vertical stack behind such solutions typically features quantum language abstraction ... Full text Cite

Modular software for real-time quantum control systems

Conference Proceedings 2022 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering Qce 2022 · January 1, 2022 Real-time control software and hardware is essential for operating quantum computers. In particular, the software plays a crucial role in bridging the gap between quantum programs and the quantum system. Unfortunately, current control software is often opt ... Full text Cite

Modular Architecture for Classical Simulation of Quantum Circuits

Conference Proceedings 2022 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering Qce 2022 · January 1, 2022 Duke ARTIQ Extensions (DAX) provides a framework for writing modular control software for ion-trap quantum systems. DAX allows users to interface with the system at the gate level using an intermediate representation called DAX.program. However, DAX does n ... Full text Cite

Functional simulation of real-time quantum control software

Conference Proceedings 2022 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering Qce 2022 · January 1, 2022 Modern quantum computers rely heavily on real-time control systems for operation. Software for these systems is becoming increasingly more complex due to the demand for more features and more real-time devices to control. Unfortunately, testing real-time c ... Full text Cite

TILT: Achieving Higher Fidelity on a Trapped-Ion Linear-Tape Quantum Computing Architecture

Conference Proceedings International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture · February 1, 2021 Trapped-ion qubits are a leading technology for practical quantum computing. In this work, we present an architectural analysis of a linear-Tape architecture for trapped ions. In order to realize our study, we develop and evaluate mapping and scheduling al ... Full text Cite

Quantum Fan-out: Circuit Optimizations and Technology Modeling

Conference Proceedings 2021 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering Qce 2021 · January 1, 2021 Instruction scheduling is a key compiler optimization in quantum computing, just as it is for classical computing. Current schedulers optimize for data parallelism by allowing simultaneous execution of instructions, as long as their qubits do not overlap. ... Full text Cite

Architecting Noisy Intermediate-Scale Trapped Ion Quantum Computers

Conference Proceedings International Symposium on Computer Architecture · May 1, 2020 Trapped ions (TI) are a leading candidate for building Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) hardware. TI qubits have fundamental advantages over other technologies such as superconducting qubits, including high qubit quality, coherence and connectivity. ... Full text Cite

High-fidelity two-qubit gates using a MEMS-based beam steering system for individual qubit addressing

Conference Optics Infobase Conference Papers · January 1, 2020 We realize and characterize high fidelity Mølmer-Sørensen gates in chains of up to four 171Yb+ ions using radial modes. The individual qubits are controlled by two addressing beams, which are steered using micro-fabricated tilting mir ... Cite

Hardware design of a trapped-ion quantum computer for software-tailored architecture for quantum co-design (STAQ) project

Conference Optics Infobase Conference Papers · January 1, 2020 We present the hardware design of a trapped-ion quantum computer for 32 fully-connected 171Yb+ hyperfine qubits. The system is engineered for optomechanical stability to ensure high performance quantum gates utilizing a low vibration ... Cite

Asymptotic improvements to quantum circuits via qutrits

Conference Proceedings International Symposium on Computer Architecture · June 22, 2019 Quantum computation is traditionally expressed in terms of quantum bits, or qubits. In this work, we instead consider three-level qutrits. Past work with qutrits has demonstrated only constant factor improvements, owing to the log2(3) binary-to- ... Full text Cite

Quantum information with molecular ions

Conference ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY · March 18, 2018 Link to item Cite

Optimized surface code communication in superconducting quantum computers

Conference Proceedings of the Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture Micro · October 14, 2017 Quantum computing (QC) is at the cusp of a revolution. Machines with 100 quantum bits (qubits) are anticipated to be operational by 2020 [30, 73], and several-hundred-qubit machines are around the corner. Machines of this scale have the capacity to demonst ... Full text Cite

Compiler management of communication and parallelism for quantum computation

Conference International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems ASPLOS · March 14, 2015 Quantum computing (QC) offers huge promise to accelerate a range of computationally intensive benchmarks. Quantum computing is limited, however, by the challenges of decoherence: i.e., a quantum state can only be maintained for short windows of time before ... Full text Cite

Laser-cooled atomic ions as probes of molecular ions

Conference Aip Conference Proceedings · January 1, 2015 Trapped laser-cooled atomic ions are a new tool for understanding cold molecular ions. The atomic ions not only sympathetically cool the molecular ions to millikelvin temperatures, but the bright atomic ion fluorescence can also serve as a detector of both ... Full text Cite

Quantum rotations: A case study in static and dynamic machine-code generation for quantum computers

Conference Proceedings International Symposium on Computer Architecture · August 12, 2013 Work in quantum computer architecture has focused on communication, layout and fault tolerance, largely driven by Shor's factorization algorithm. For the first time, we study a larger range of benchmarks and find that another critical issue is the generati ... Full text Cite

Constriction of bovine vasculature caused by endophyte-infected tall fescue seed extract is similar to pure ergovaline.

Conference Journal of animal science · May 2012 Ergovaline has been extensively used to study vasoactive effects of endophyte- (Neotyphodium coenophialum) infected tall fescue (Lolium arundinaceum). However, initial results indicated that an extract of toxic tall fescue seed (E+EXT) is more potent than ... Full text Cite

Sympathetic heating spectroscopy of atomic and molecular ions

Conference ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY · March 27, 2011 Link to item Cite

Sympathetic heating spectroscopy: Probing molecular ions with laser-cooled atomic ions

Conference Optics InfoBase Conference Papers · December 1, 2010 Sympathetic heating spectroscopy measures atomic and molecular ion spectra by observing the heating of a laser-cooled control ion. Limits of the method are tested using two isotopes of calcium. Applications for molecular ions are discussed. © 2010 OSA /FiO ... Cite

Laser-cooled atomic ions as probes of molecular ions for applications in astrochemistry

Conference ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY · March 21, 2010 Link to item Cite

Sympathetic heating spectroscopy: Probing molecular ions with laser-cooled atomic ions

Conference Optics Infobase Conference Papers · January 1, 2010 Sympathetic heating spectroscopy measures atomic and molecular ion spectra by observing the heating of a laser-cooled control ion. Limits of the method are tested using two isotopes of calcium. Applications for molecular ions are discussed. © 2010 OSA /FiO ... Full text Cite

"Omics" of cattle growth and aging

Conference CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE · March 2009 Link to item Cite

Controlling and measuring a single donor electron in silicon

Conference PHYSICS OF SEMICONDUCTORS, PTS A AND B · 2005 Link to item Cite

Intelligent launch and range operations testbed

Conference SPACE TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL FORUM - STAIF 2003 · 2003 Link to item Cite

The next generation space launch range

Conference SPACE TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL FORUM-2001 · 2001 Link to item Cite

Flight operations control center lessons learned for the delta clipper experimental rocket

Conference Space technology and applications international forum (STAIF - 97) · 1997 Full text Cite

Process modeling of hybrid poplar growth: Tool or toy

Conference PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN ENERGY PLANTATION WORKSHOP · 1996 Link to item Cite

Early testing for superior growth and fitness in hybrid poplar

Conference PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN ENERGY PLANTATION WORKSHOP · 1996 Link to item Cite

On the fabrication aspect of commercial superplastic 5083 aluminum alloy sheets

Conference SUPERPLASTICITY AND SUPERPLASTIC FORMING, 1995 · 1995 Link to item Cite

ACTIVE-SITE STUDIES ON PARATHION HYDROLASE

Conference ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY · August 21, 1994 Link to item Cite

Overview

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THE THEORY OF THE GPS COMPOSITE CLOCK

Conference PROCEEDINGS OF ION GPS-91 · 1991 Link to item Cite

CHARACTERIZATIONS OF OCS KALMAN FILTER ERRORS

Conference PROCEEDINGS OF ION GPS-91 · 1991 Link to item Cite

Ivermectin--clinical trials and treatment schedules in onchocerciasis.

Conference Acta Leidensia · January 1990 Initial clinical trials with ivermectin were performed in patients with both roundworm infestation and onchocerciasis. Obvious clinical safety allowed for rapid progression through 5-30-50-100-150-200 mcg/kg in infected patients. Initial studies showed som ... Cite