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- CNLS Postdoctoral fellow Marco Cerezo and coauthor have demonstrated Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) may be a path to quantum advantage on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers. The article can be found in “Noise-induced barren plateaus in variational quantum algorithms by S. Wang, E. Fontana, M. Cerzo, K. Sharma, A. Sone, L. Cincio & P. J. Coles, in Nature Communications. DOI: .1038/s41467-021-27045-6.
- CNLS postdoctoral fellow, Prajvala Kurtakoti, has been featured in the journal Scientia for her research as a polar oceanographer. Prajvala Kurtakoti studies climate models, ocean circulation patterns, and the dynamical effects resulting from the coupling between the oceans and the atmosphere and heat transport between them.
- CNLS Postdoctoral Fellow Vidushi Sharma (T-1/CNLS) and co-authors have proposed a novel mechanism for the extraction of hydrogen from water on the surface of a photocatalyst. Their work has been highlighted in the Physics News and Commentary Synopsis article of the American Physical Society, entitled "The Brains and Brawn Behind Splitting Water," available here. The article, entitled "Cooperative Interactions between Surface Terminations Explain Photocatalytic Water Splitting Activity on SrTiO3," can be found here. doi:10.1103/PRXEnergy.1.023002.
- CNLS postdocs Derek DeSantis (CCS-2/CNLS) and Adam Rupe (EES-16/CNLS) are researchers who are part of a team who won a RD 100 Award. Their winning project, SmartTensors AI Platform, is software that uses unsupervised machine learning to sift through massive datasets and identify hidden trends, mechanisms, signatures, and features buried in large high-dimensional data tensors (multi-dimensional arrays). The SmartTensors AI Platform project also won the Bronze Special Recognition Award for Market Disruptor – Services, which highlights any service from any category as one that forever changed the R&D industry or a particular vertical within the industry.
- CNLS Executive Committee member Sara Del Valle led the Los Alamos team who received the Gold Special Recognition Award in the Battling COVID-19 category for their project EpiCast Simulates Epidemics in Extreme Scales. This award highlights any innovation that was employed to battle the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. CNLS postdocs Morgan Gorris (A-1/CNLS) and Manhong Z. Smith (A-1/CNLS) are part of the team that won.
- CNLS Postdoctoral fellow Julia Cen (T-4/CNLS) won best video poster presentation at the International Quantum Fest 2021 conference. Quantum Fest is a periodic festival on Quantum Phenomena, Quantum Control and Geometry of Quantum States, organized by the Center for Research and Advanced Studies (Cinvestav) and Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria en Ingeniería y Tecnologías Avanzadas del I.P.N. (UPIITA-IPN) in México City, Mexico. The jury of the video-posters exhibition consists of Lecturers and the Plenary Speakers of the conference. The originality and scientific rigor of results as well as the exposition and the aesthetic of the cartel are taken into account. Julia Cen won the first place in the poster presentation. Presentation title: Joint Parity-Time (PT) and Anti-Parity-Time (APT) Symmetric Qubits.
- CNLS Postdoctoral fellow Zachary Fox employed a recently developed tool
named aging Wiener-Khinchin theorem to derive the power spectral density of fractional Brownian motion coexisting with a scale-free continuous time random walk, the two most typical anomalous diffusion processes. Using this analysis, they characterized the motion of voltage-gated sodium channels on the surface of hippocampal neurons. Their results show aging where the power spectral density can either increase or decrease with observation time depending on the specific parameters of both underlying processes. The article, “Aging power spectrum of membrane protein transport and other subordinated random walks”, by Zachary Fox, Eli Barkai and Diego Krapf, Nature Communications (2021) 12:6161, can be found here (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26465-8.pdf).
- Wenting Li, a post-doc in CNLS and Applied Mathematics and Plasma Physics (T-5), recently received a “best paper” award for Machine Learning (ML) Innovation at the Climate Change AI workshop at the 2021 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). She and her mentor Deepjyoti Deka design graph neural networks for identifying the location of power grid faults that may trigger blackouts or wildfires using physics. The highlight of this research is that it can work in realistic regimes where power networks are sparsely observed and data is partially labeled. The link to the winning paper and video can be found at https://www.climatechange.ai/papers/icml2021/11.
- CNLS Postdoctoral fellow Marco Cerezo and co-authors have developed hybrid classical/quantum algorithms to extract the most performance from today’s noisy, error-prone quantum computers. The article, published in Nature Physics, can be found in “Variational Quantum Algorithms, by M. Cerezo, Andrew Arrasmith, Ryan Babbush, Simon C. Benjamin, Suguru Endo, Keisuke Fujii, Jarrod R. McClean, Kosuke Mitarai, Xiao Yuan, Lukasz Cincio, and Patrick J. Coles, in Nature Reviews Physics. DOI: 10.1038/s42254-021-00348-9. A LANL news release about this article can be found here.
- CNLS Postdoc Bin Yan and co-author have demonstrated that in the quantum realm, there is no “butterfly effect” using a quantum computer to simulate time travel. This paper, published in APS, can be found in Recovery of Damaged Information and the Out-of-Time-Ordered Correlators by Bin Yan and Nikolai A. Sinitsyn, in Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 040605 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.040605. A LANL news release about this article can be found here.
- The COVID-19 Modeling Team, composed by Courtney Shelley (A-1), Lauren Castro (A-1/CNLS), Mandy Smith (A-1/CNLS) and Morgan Gorris (A-1/CNLS) won the 2020 Postdoctoral Distinguished Performance Award. They are mentored by Sara Del Valle (who won the Postdoctoral Distinguished Mentor Award) and Carrie Manore (A-1).
- Bin Yan (T-1/CNLS) won the 2020 Postdoctoral Distinguished Performance Award.
- CNLS Postdoctoral Fellow Bin Yan published an article in Physical Review Letters and it was selected as an Editors' Suggestion. This work was also highlighted in LANL news. Bin Yan is mentored by CNLS alumni Nikolai Sinitsyn (T-4) and Wojciech Zurek (T-4). The paper can be found here. The LANL news highlight can be found here.
- CNLS Postdoctoral Fellow James Sadler (T-2/CNLS) just published a PLR https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.075001, February 15, 2021. James Sadler is mentored by Hui Li (T-2).
- CNLS Postdoctoral Fellow James Sadler (T-2/CNLS) just published a paper in the Physics of Plasmas (Physics of Plasmas, 27, 122110(2020) ,doi: 10.1063/5.0027210) and it was selected as their featured article for its newest issue: https://aip.scitation.org/journal/php. James Sadler is mentored by Hui Li (T-2).
- Two CNLS postdoctoral fellows won top honors in the 2020 Science in_"3" competition. Srirupa Chakraborty (T-6 and CNLS) was one of three winners. Lauren Castro (A-1 and CNLS) won an Honorable Mention. Science in "3" is a dynamic Postdoc Career Development Event, where postdocs are provided the opportunity to present their research for a general audience in "3" minutes or less, challenging the postdoc to give a clear and concise presentation.
- An article published by CNLS postdoctoral fellows Alexis Chacon (now at the Department of Physics and Center for Attosecond Science and Technology, South Korea) and Wei Zhu was highlighted as an Editors' Suggestion by Phys Rev B. The article ”Circular dichroism in higher-order harmonic generation: Heralding topological phases and transitions in Chern insulators" by Chacon et al. was published in 21 October 2020.
- CNLS Postdoctoral fellow Sumantra Sarkar is the recipient of the 2021 Irvin Oppenheim Award for Early Career Scientists of the American Physical Society for his article “Design Conditions for Self-replication” (https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.100.022414 )
- CNLS Postdoctoral fellow Bin Yan co-authored with Nikolai Sinitsyn an opinion article in Scientific American titled "The Auantum Butterfly Effect" (see link here: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-quantum-butterfly-non-effect/?previewid=1105315E-F2B3-421C-B29CD4BDE9AE1850 )
- Srirupa Chakraborty (T-6/CNLS) was awarded the American Chemical Society (ACS), Wiley Computers in Chemistry Outstanding Postdoc Award for her work “Harnessing high-throughput modeling and graph theory towards the topological characterization of densely glycosylated proteins” at the ACS fall meeting. Srirupa is mentored by S Gnanakaran (T-6).
- CNLS student Lillian Petersen, wins the First Prize in the Regeneron Science Talent search: https://www.npr.org/2020/07/30/897076414/high-school-senior-created-model-to-end-food-insecurity
- T-4/CNLS Postdoc Bin Yan published two papers in Physical Review Letters about the scrambling of quantum information. One work was done with alumni Nikolai Sinitsyn (T-4); the other was with Wojciech Zurek (T-4) and Lukasz Cincio (T-4). View articles "Information Scrambling and Loschmidt Echo" [Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 160603 (2020)] and "Recovery of Damaged Information and the Out-of-Time-Ordered Correlators" [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 040605 (2020)]. The papers can be found here:
- https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.160603
- https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.040605
- T-4/CNLS Postdoc Ying Su co-authored two recent papers in Physical Review Letters:
- "Skyrmion crystal from RKKY interaction mediated by 2D electron gas", by Z Wang, Ying Su, S-Z Lin, and C. D. Batista. Physical Review Letters 124, 207201 (2020) (https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.207201)
- "Valley polarization and inversion in strained graphene via pseudo-Landau levels, valley splitting of real Landau levels and confined states", by S-Y Li, Ying Su, Y-N Ren, and L He. Physical Review Letters 124, 106802 (2020) (https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.106802)
- T-6/CNLS Postdoc Steven Sanche and collaborators (Yen Ting Lin (CCS-3) Chonggang Xu (EES-14), Ethan Romero-Severson (T-6), Nick Hengartner (T-6), and Ruian Ke (T-6), published a now highly cited paper describing the early dynamics of the Coronavirus 2 outbreak in Wuhan, China. The paper High Contagiousness and Rapid Spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Emerging Infectious Diseases, 26, July 2020, can be found here:(https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0282_article?fbclid=IwAR0W7f4sRR6pnO5q9i5oHjoD4_qgz-5TG5OfMRNStUnf7GCeq7uuJBbYsAM
- 2019 CNLS Summer student Yuri Muniz, his advisor Wilton Kort-Kamp, and collaborators published a paper on ultrafast generation of entangled two-photon states in plasmonic nanostructures has just been published in Physical Review Letters (https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.033601)
- Congratulations to Christopher Hannon, T5/CNLS GRA, who recently won the best paper award at ACM PADS (Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation) conference.
- Congratulations Enrique Batista, CNLS Deputy Director, and Ping Yang, T-1, on being recognized and awarded LANL Distinguished Postdoc Mentors Awards. This award recognizes the positive impact and contributions that a mentor makes during a postdoc's appointment and who demonstrate a level of mentoring beyond expectations. Congratulations Enrique and Ping!
- T-4/CNLS Postdoc Fuxiang Li co-published a paper with CNLS alumni Nikolai Sinitsyn and Prof. Vladimir Y Chernyak from Wayne State University in Physical Review Letters. View 'Quantum Annealing and Thermalization: Insights from Integrability' here.
- Congratulations to Angel E. Garcia, the Director of CNLS, on being named a 2018 Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellow.
- Congratulations to Sergei Tretiak, a member of the CNLS Executive Committee, on being named a 2018 Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellow.
- Jennifer Hollingsworth, a member fo the CNLS Executive Committee, has been named a 2018 Fellow by the American Physics Society (APS).
Wilton Kort-Kamp, former CNLS postdoc and current LANL T-4 staff, was awarded the Leon Heller Postdoctoral Publication Prize in Theoretical Physics.
- Sydney Andrews Receives DOE Graduate Fellowship, Los Alamos Daily Post article
- Christopher Neale's slides titled 'How to Give an Effective Research Presentation' are available here.
- CNLS postdoc, Wilton Kort-Kamp recently published "Casimir force phase transitions in the graphene family" in Nature Communications.
- CNLS Postdoc Mentor and Collaborator, Carleton Coffrin, A-1, was recently featured in the news for his open-source software, Severe Contingency Solver, that helps government agencies better plan for power outages caused by extreme events.
- T-4/CNLS Postdoc Fuxiang Li co-published a paper with CNLS alumni Nikolai Sinitsyn in Physical Review Letters. View 'Quantum Effects in Higher-Order Correlators of a Quantum-Dot Spin Qubit' here.
- Former CNLS Postdoc Sebastian Deffner was announced as the 2016 winner of the New Journal of Physics Early Career Award which emphasizes recognition of early career brilliance and contributions to the field. Congratulations Sebastian!
- T-4/CNLS Postdoc Wilton Kort-Kamp has been awarded the Brazilian CAPES 2016 PhD Thesis Award in Physics and Astronomy for the best PhD thesis. His PhD thesis is titled "Novel approaches to tailor and tune light-matter interactions at the nanoscale." This prize is awarded by the Brazilian Government though its CAPES program, and it the highest award in Brazil for PhD thesis. He will receive his prize by the Brazilian president later this year. Congratulations Wilton!
- Graduate Student Mowen Lu won the best poster award at the DTRA Basic Research Technical Review on July 20, 2016 in Washington DC.
- Malcolm G Boshier, a member of CNLS Executive Committeee, has been elected Secretary/Treasurer of the APS Topical Group on Precision Measurements and Fundamental Constants
- CNLS postdoc, Ludmil B. Alexandrov recently won a 2015 Science & SciLifeLab Prize for his paper "Understanding the origins of human cancer" in Science.
- T-4/CNLS postdoc Sebastian Deffner was recently hired by the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland Department of Physics at the University of Maryland" We wish Sebastian the best of luck in his future endeavors!
- CNLS postdoc, Anatoly Zlotnik recently published "Phase-selective entrainment of nonlinear oscillator ensembles" in Nature Communications.
- T-4/CNLS Postdoc Fuxiang Li co-published a paper with CNLS alumni Nikolai Sinitsyn in Physical Review Letters. View 'Universality in Higher Order Spin Noise Spectroscopy' here.
- CNLS Executive Committee member Jennifer Hollingsworth has been recognized as one of six women statewide to receive a Women in Technology Award from the New Mexico Technology Council.
- CNLS postdoc, Cesar A. Lopez, and CNLS Affiliates Gnana Gnanakaran and Bette T. Korber recently published "Broadly targeted CD8+ T cell responses restricted by major histocompatibility complex E" in Science.
- T-4/CNLS Postdoc Sebastian Deffner recently published the paper 'Shortcuts to adiabaticity: suppression of pair production in driven Dirac dynamics' in the New Journal of Physics. He also published Exorcising Maxwells Demon' in APS Physics and 'Quantum stochastic thermodynamic on harmonic networks' in the New Journal of Physics. Additionally, he is quoted in Autonomous Maxwell's demon displays chilling power' in a Physics World Article.
- CNLS Affiliates Ido Regev and Charles Reichhardt recently published "Reversibility and Critically in Amorphous Solids" in Nature Communications.
- CNLS Affiliate and former postdoc, Cristiano Nisoli, recently published "Emergent reduced dimensionality by vertex frustration in artificial spin ice" in Nature Physics.
- T-1/CNLS Postdoc Lyudmyla Adamska recently published two papers. 'Singlet and triplet excitons and charge polarons in cycloparaphenylenes: a density functional theory study' can be found in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, and 'Self-Trapping of Charge Carriers in Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes: Structural Analysis' can be found in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letter.
- T-4/CNLS Postdoc Fuxiang Li co-published a paper with CNLS alumni Nikolai Sinitsyn in Nature Physics. View 'Three-stage decoherence dynamics of an electron spin qubit in an optically active quantum dot' here.
- T-4/CNLS Postdoc Ivan Christov co-authored an entry in the Royal Society Publishing Blog for their "350 years of the Philosophical Transactions" called "Maxwell's 'other' equations".
- T-4/CNLS postdoc Sebastian Deffner has published "Environment-Assisted Speed-up of the Field Evolution in Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics" in Physics Review Letters, published June 11, 2015.
- EES-16/CNLS postdoc Jeffrey Hyman has received the InterPore Fraunhofer Award for Young Researchers for 2015.
- T-4/CNLS postdoc Sebastian Deffner has published "Ten years of Nature Physics: From spooky foundations" in Nature Physics, published April 30, 2015.
- T-4/CNLS postdoc Alex White has been awarded with the 2015 APS Division of Chemical Physics Doctoral Thesis Award for the best doctoral dissertation in any area of chemical physics.
- CNLS Affiliate Cristian Batista has been named a fellow of the American Physical Society in the Division of Condensed Matter Physics for theoretical contributions to the understanding of frustrated magnetic systems, topological phases, and electronic ferroelectricity.
- CNLS Affiliate Malcolm Boshier has been named a fellow of the American Physical Society in the Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics for high precision laser spectroscopy of hydrogen and muonium, and for advancing the state of the art in cold atom manipulation.
- CNLS Affiliate Avadh Saxena has been named a fellow of the Americal Physical Society in the Division of Materials Physics forfoundational contributions to phase transitions in functional materials and nonlinear excitations in low-dimensional electronic materials.
- NLS Affiliate Sergei Tretiak has been named a fellow of the American Physical Society in the Division of Chemical Physics for seminal contributions to the theoretical chemistry of excited state dynamics in nanoscale materials and nonlinear optical response of molecular systems.
- CNLS Postdoc Adolfo del Campo has won the Leon Heller Postdoc Publication Award for his article, "Shortcuts to Adiabaticity by Counteradiabatic Driving" which appeared in Physical Review Letters.
- Adolfo del Campo, together with Tom W. B. Kibble and Wojciech H. Zurek, has published "Causality and non-equilibrium second-order phase transitions in inhomogeneous systems" in J. Phys. Condensed Matter: within the special issue "Condensed matter analogues of cosmology" on September 11th.
- On September 3rd, Adolfo del Campo has published "Shortcuts to Adiabaticity by Counterdiabatic Driving" in Physical Review Letters".
- Adolfo del Campo, in collaboration with Wojciech H. Zurek (Theoretical Division), the theory group led by Martin B. Plenio at the University of Ulm and the experimental group led by Tanja E. Mehlstaubler at PTB, has published "Topological Defect Formation and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Ion Coulomb Crystals<94> in Nature Communications on August 7th 2013.
- Brian Munsky, with Gregor Neuert, Rui Zhen Tan, Leonid Teytelman, Mustafa Khammash, and Alexander van Oudenaarden, has published "Systematic Identification of Signal Activated Stochastic Gene Regulation" on February 1st in the journal Science.
- Adolfo del Campo, together with I. L. Egusquiza, M. B. Plenio, and S. F. Huelga, has published "Quantum Speed Limits in Open System Dynamics" on February 1st in Physical Review Letters. These "speed limits" apply to any quantum process and have a wide variety of applications, including the determination of precision limits for quantum metrology in the presence of dephasing noise.
- Misha Chertkov (T-4), with Florian Dorfler (CNLS/UCSB) and Francesco Bullo, has published
"Synchronization in Complex Oscillator Networks and Smart Grids" in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on January 13, 2013.
- Jonathan Graham (T-3/CNLS), together with Anna Pietarila, has published "Instrumental and Observational Artifacts in Quiet Sun Magnetic Flux Cancellation Functions" in the Online First edition of Solar Physics on October 25th.
- Zhengping Ji, together with Steven Brumby, R. Chartrand, A. Galbraith, N. Hengartner, G. Kenyon, D. Moody, D. Paiton, J. Theiler, M. Warran and B. Wohlberg, won Second Place at the recent LDRD Day celebration for their poster "Human-like Computer Vision Using Deep, Sparse Models". "The winners of this year's best-poster competition represent the innovative nature of LDRD projects, as well as the broad range of national security challenges LDRD researchers are working hard to solve with cutting-edge science and engineering," said Bill Priedhorsky, LDRD program director.
- Adolfo del Campo (T-4/CNLS), together with Marek M. Rams and Wojciech H. Zurek, has published "Assisted Finite-Rate Adiabatic Passage Across a Quantum Critical Point: Exact Solution for the Quantum Ising Model" on September 13th in Physical Review Letters.
- Adolfo del Campo (T-4/CNLS), together with Malcolm G. Boshier (P-Division), has published "Shortcuts to adiabaticity in a time-dependent box" on September 11th in Scientific Reports.
- Claire White (LANSCE-LC/CNLS) has received the first 2012 NSSA Prize for Outstanding Student Research to recognize her outstanding research pioneering a new methodology to elucidate accurate structural representations of complex materials by combining neutron diffraction and computational chemistry.
- Armin Rahmani (T-4/CNLS) has published "General Method for Calculating the Universal Conductance of Strongly Correlated Junctions of Multiple Quantum Wires" in the January 20th issue of Physics Review B.
- CNLS Executive Committee Member, Andy Shreve, wins LANL Fellows Prize for Leadership
- Misha Chertkov (T-13, CNLS Executive Committee) and
Allon Percus (CCS-3) have been awarded an NSF grant "Harnessing Statistical Physics
for Computing and Communication", a 3-year collaborative project involving the New Mexico Consortium, the Cornell University CS
department (PI, Bart Selman) and the MIT EECS department (PI, Devavrat Shah). CNLS has contributed significantly to building this research
capability through its focus on Statistical Physics of Networks, Information and Complex
Systems, and it will participate in the project by hosting students and postdocs jointly with the collaborating institutions.
- On August 21, Science Express published a paper, Quantum Communication with Zero-Capacity
Channels, by Graeme Smith from the IBM Watson Research Center and Jon Yard, CNLS-CCS3
postdoc, which obtained the surprising quantum information result that the combination of zero capacity quantum channels can yield
an information channel of finite capacity. (Press Release)
- Cory Hauck (CNLS, CCS-2) has been invited to serve as a Fellow at the Institute for Pure and Applied
Mathematics (IPAM) during its Spring 2009 Program on Quantum and Kinetic Transport: Analysis, Computations, and New Applications
(http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/kt2009/). Located on the UCLA campus, IPAM (http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/) is an NSF national research institute
whose principal objective is to encourage cross-fertilization between pure and applied mathematics and other scientific disciplines.
- Robert Kraichnan, a long-time resident of White Rock and Santa Fe and a LANL consultant and CNLS affiliate throughout the 80's and 90's, died February 26, 2008
after a long illness. Bob was a frequent collaborator at CNLS, was an invited speaker in numerous CNLS workshops and conferences, and wrote many important
and influential papers on fluid turbulence with Shiyi Chen and Gary Doolen, both former CNLS Deputy Directors.
Since 2003, Bob was Homewood Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Johns-Hopkins University. A detailed record of his scientific accomplishments
is available online. A notice of his death appeared recently in the
New York Times. Bob's intellect and good cheer will
be sorely missed by all who knew him.
- Basil Nicolaenko, one of the co-founders of the Center for Nonlinear Studies, passed away in September.
- The Center for Nonlinear Studies marks the passing of two influential leaders of nonlinear science who contributed
greatly to the success of the CNLS: Martin Kruskal and Alwyn Scott.
- Executive Committee member Eli Ben-Naim was recently featured in a "60 seconds with..." interview at IOP Publishing's web site.
Click here to read the interview.
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