Some Publications by David P. DiVincenzo

D. P. DiVincenzo and E. J. Mele, “Self-Consistent Effective Mass Theory for Intralayer Screening in Graphite Intercalation Compounds,” Phys. Rev. B 29, 1685 (1984).  Established the massless Dirac particle description of the electron dynamics of graphene.

P. M. Horn, W. Malzfeldt, D. P. DiVincenzo, J. Toner, and R. Gambino, “Systematics of Disorder in Quasiperiodic Material,” Phys. Rev. Lett.  57, 1444 (1986). Strong experimental confirmation of a theory of disorder in quasicrystals.

G. Y. Onoda, P. J. Steinhardt, D. P. DiVincenzo, and J. E. S. Socolar, “Growing Perfect Quasicrystals,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 60, 2653 (1988). Established that growth of quasicrystals with only local rules is possible.

D. Loss, D. P. DiVincenzo, and G. Grinstein, “Suppression of Tunneling by Interference in Half-Integer-Spin Particles,” Phys. Rev. Lett.  69, 3232 (1992); eprint cond-mat/9208012.  Provided a path-integral version of the Kramers theorem.

D. P. DiVincenzo, “Two-bit Gates are Universal for Quantum Computation”, Phys. Rev. A 51, 1015 (1995); eprint cond-mat/9407022. Proved the universality of two qubit gates for quantum computation (by contrast to classical reversible computation, for which three-bit gates are necessary).

C. H. Bennett, D. P. DiVincenzo, J. A. Smolin, and W. K. Wootters, “Mixed-state entanglement and quantum error correction”, Phys. Rev. A 54, 3824 (1996); eprint quant-ph/9604024. Defined and characterized the entanglement of formation and the distillable entanglement.  Proved gaps between entanglement of formation and distillable entanglement.  Introduced LOCC. Proved that distillable entanglement with one-way LOCC equals the quantum capacity.  Introduced the five-qubit quantum error correcting code. Introduced the basic conditions for quantum error correction.

D. P. DiVincenzo and P. W. Shor, “Fault-tolerant error correction with efficient quantum codes”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 3260 (1996); eprint quant-ph/9605031. Extended the Shor technique of fault tolerant quantum error correction to all stabilizer codes.  Introduced standard circuit construction for error correction network to all stabilizer codes.

D. Loss and D. P. DiVincenzo, “Quantum computation with quantum dots”, Phys. Rev. A 57, 120-126 (1998); eprint cond-mat/9701055.  Provided a full prescription for implementing quantum computations in single-electron semiconductor quantum dots.

C. H. Bennett, D. P. DiVincenzo, C. Fuchs, T. Mor, E. Rains, P. Shor, J. Smolin, and W. K. Wootters, “Quantum nonlocality without entanglement,” Phys. Rev. A 59, 1070 (1999); eprint quant-ph/9804053. Showed a complete basis of bipartite product states that are not distinguishable by LOCC.

G. Burkard, D. Loss, and D. P. DiVincenzo, “Coupled quantum dots as quantum gates,” Phys. Rev. B 59, 2070 (1999); eprint cond-mat/9808026.  Quantitative analysis of quantum gate operations with single-electron quantum dots.  The first paper to investigate the complications resulting from coupling to nuclear spins.

B. M. Terhal and D. P. DiVincenzo, “On the Problem of Equilibration and the Computation of Correlation Functions on a Quantum Computer,” Phys. Rev. A 61, 022301 (2000); eprint quant-ph/9810063. Gave evidence that the simulation of equilibrium systems on a quantum computer could be hard.

A. Imamoglu, D. D. Awschalom, G. Burkard, D. P. DiVincenzo, D. Loss, M. Sherwin, and A. Small, “Quantum information processing using electron spins and cavity-QED,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4204 (1999); eprint quant-ph/9904096. Provided an experimentally realistic scheme for optical two-qubit gates between quantum dots in an optical cavity.

 

D. P. DiVincenzo, “The Physical Implementation of Quantum Computation,” Fortschritte der Physik 48, 771-784 (2000; quant-ph/0002077. The most extensive exposition of the ``five criteria”.

D. P. DiVincenzo, D. A. Bacon, J. Kempe, G. Burkard, and K. B. Whaley, “Universal Quantum Computation with the Exchange Interaction,” Nature 408, 339-342 (2000); quant-ph/0005116. Showed an efficient scheme for performing quantum computation with only the exchange interaction.

G. Burkard, R. H. Koch, and D. P. DiVincenzo, “Multi-level quantum description of decoherence in superconducting flux qubits,” Phys. Rev. B 69, 064503 (2004); cond-mat/0308025. Comprehensive theory of flux qubits.

C W. J. Beenakker, D. P. DiVincenzo, C. Emary, and M. Kindermann, “Charge detection enables free-electron quantum computation,” quant-ph/0401066, Phys.Rev.Lett. 93, 020501 (2004). Highlighted parity measurement as a central two-qubit operation for universal quantum computation.

G. Burkard, D. P. DiVincenzo, P. Bertet, I. Chiorescu, and J. E. Mooij, “Asymmetry and decoherence in a double-layer persistent-current qubit”, cond-mat/0405273, Phys. Rev. B 71, 134504 (2005). Successful application of theory to solve important experimental problem in flux qubits.

R. H. Koch, J. R. Rozen, G. A. Keefe, F. M. Milliken, C. C. Tsuei, J. R. Kirtley, and D. P. DiVincenzo, “Low-bandwidth control scheme for an oscillator stabilized Josephson qubit,” cond-mat/0411380, Phys. Rev. B 72, 092512 (2005). Full theoretical analysis of effective scheme for high-fidelity flux qubit operation.

R. H. Koch, J. R. Rozen, G. A. Keefe, F. M. Milliken, C. C. Tsuei, J. R. Kirtley, and D. P. DiVincenzo, “Experimental observation of an oscillator stabilized Josephson qubit,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 127001 (2006). Experimental demonstration of this scheme.

Krysta M. Svore, David P. DiVincenzo, and Barbara M. Terhal, “Noise Threshold for a Fault-Tolerant Two-Dimensional Lattice Architecture,” quant-ph/0604090, Quantum Information and Computation 7, 297-318 (2007). Explicit analysis of effect of locality, in a specific architecture, on fault tolerance in quantum computation. 

Roger H. Koch, David P. DiVincenzo, and John Clarke, “Model for l/f Flux Noise in SQUIDs and Qubits,” cond-mat/0702025, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 267003 (2007) [published as a “PRL Editors’ Suggestion”]. First microscopic model of flux noise in SQUIDs: paramagnetic centers in surrounding material implicated.

Frederico Brito, David P. DiVincenzo, Roger H. Koch, and Matthias Steffen, “Efficient one- and two-qubit pulsed gates for an oscillator stabilized Josephson qubit,” arxiv:0709.1478. Full scheme derived to achieve high fidelity for all gates in a universal gate set; avoidance of 1/f effects is shown to be possible.