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Emily Edwards

Emily Edwards

Associate Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Qupcakery: A Puzzle Game that Introduces Quantum Gates to Young Learners

Conference SIGCSE 2023 - Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education · March 2, 2023 Quantum computing (QC) is an emerging field at the intersection of computer science and physics. Harnessing the power of quantum mechanics, QC is expected to solve otherwise intractable problems significantly faster, including in encryption, drug developme ... Full text Cite

Building a Quantum Engineering Undergraduate Program

Journal Article IEEE Transactions on Education · May 1, 2022 Contribution: A roadmap is provided for building a quantum engineering education program to satisfy U.S. national and international workforce needs. Background: The rapidly growing quantum information science and engineering (QISE) industry will require bo ... Full text Cite

Beat note stabilization of mode-locked lasers for quantum information processing

Journal Article Optics Letters · June 1, 2014 We stabilize a chosen radio frequency beat note between two optical fields derived from the same mode-locked laser pulse train in order to coherently manipulate quantum information. This scheme does not require access or active stabilization of the laser r ... Full text Cite

Emergence and frustration of magnetism with variable-range interactions in a quantum simulator

Journal Article Science · January 1, 2013 Frustration, or the competition between interacting components of a network, is often responsible for the emergent complexity of many-body systems. For instance, frustrated magnetism is a hallmark of poorly understood systems such as quantum spin liquids, ... Full text Cite

Quantum simulation of spin models on an arbitrary lattice with trapped ions

Journal Article New Journal of Physics · 2012 A collection of trapped atomic ions represents one of the most attractive platforms for the quantum simulation of interacting spin networks and quantum magnetism. Spin-dependent optical dipole forces applied to an ion crystal create long-range effective sp ... Full text Cite

Quantum simulation of the transverse Ising model with trapped ions

Journal Article New Journal of Physics · October 1, 2011 Crystals of trapped atomic ions are among the most promising platforms for the quantum simulation of many-body quantum physics. Here, we describe recent developments in the simulation of quantum magnetic spin models with trapped 171Yb+ ions, and discuss th ... Full text Cite

Onset of a quantum phase transition with a trapped ion quantum simulator.

Journal Article Nature communications · July 2011 A quantum simulator is a well-controlled quantum system that can follow the evolution of a prescribed model whose behaviour may be difficult to determine. A good example is the simulation of a set of interacting spins, where phase transitions between vario ... Full text Cite

Quantum simulation and phase diagram of the transverse-field Ising model with three atomic spins

Journal Article Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics · August 27, 2010 We perform a quantum simulation of the Ising model with a transverse field using a collection of three trapped atomic ion spins. By adiabatically manipulating the Hamiltonian, we directly probe the ground state for a wide range of fields and form of the Is ... Full text Cite

Quantum simulation of frustrated Ising spins with trapped ions

Journal Article Nature · June 3, 2010 A network is frustrated when competing interactions between nodes prevent each bond from being satisfied. This compromise is central to the behaviour of many complex systems, from social and neural networks to protein folding and magnetism. Frustrated netw ... Full text Cite

Adiabaticity and localization in one-dimensional incommensurate lattices

Journal Article Physical Review Letters · December 22, 2008 We experimentally investigate the role of localization on the adiabaticity of loading a Bose-Einstein condensate into a one-dimensional optical potential comprised of a shallow primary lattice plus one or two perturbing lattice(s) of incommensurate period. ... Full text Cite

Scalar relativistic study of the structure of rhodium acetate

Conference International Journal of Molecular Sciences · January 1, 2004 Rhodium acetate, related rhodium carboxylates, and rhodium amide complexes are powerful catalysts for carbene chemistry. They readily promote the decomposition of diazo compounds and transfer the resulting carbene to a variety of substrates. There have bee ... Full text Cite