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Tameem Albash

Adjunct Assistant Professor (Research) of Physics and Astronomy
Email albash@email.usc.edu Office SSC 206 Office Phone (213) 740-7492

Education

  • Ph.D. Physics, University of Southern California, 5/2010
  • B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, 5/2005
    • Senior Research Associate, Information Sciences Institute, USC, 02/2015-12/2016
    • Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Southern California, 05/2010-02/2015

  • Conference Presentations

    • Simulated annealing comparison between all-to-all connectivity schemes , AQC 2016Talk/Oral Presentation, Invited, Venice, CA, 06/27/2016 – 06/29/2016
    • Tunneling and Speedup in Permutation-Invariant Quantum Optimization Problems , APS March MeetingTalk/Oral Presentation, Invited, Baltimore, MD, 03/14/2016 – 03/18/2016

  • Book Chapters

    • Albash, T., Johnson, C. V., McDonald, S. (2013). Holography, Fractionalization and Magnetic Fields. pp. 537-554. Berlin, Heidelberg: Strongly Interacting Matter in Magnetic FieldsSpringer Berlin Heidelberg.

    Journal Article

    • Matsuura, S., Nishimori, H., Vinci, W., Albash, T., Lidar, D. A. (2017). Quantum-annealing correction at finite temperature: Ferromagnetic $p$-spin models. Phys. Rev. A/American Physical Society. Vol. 95, pp. 022308.
    • Venuti, L. C., Albash, T., Marvian, M., Lidar, D., Zanardi, P. (2017). Relaxation versus adiabatic quantum steady-state preparation. Phys. Rev. A/American Physical Society. Vol. 95, pp. 042302.
    • Albash, T., Vinci, W., Lidar, D. A. (2016). Simulated-quantum-annealing comparison between all-to-all connectivity schemes. Phys. Rev. A/American Physical Society. Vol. 94, pp. 022327.
    • Matsuura, S., Nishimori, H., Albash, T., Lidar, D. A. (2016). Mean Field Analysis of Quantum Annealing Correction. Phys. Rev. Lett./American Physical Society. Vol. 116, pp. 220501.
    • Mishra, A., Albash, T., Lidar, D. A. (2016). Performance of two different quantum annealing correction codes. Quantum Information Processing. Vol. 15 (2), pp. 609-636.
    • Muthukrishnan, S., Albash, T., Lidar, D. A. (2016). Tunneling and Speedup in Quantum Optimization for Permutation-Symmetric Problems. Phys. Rev. X/American Physical Society. Vol. 6, pp. 031010.
    • Venuti, L. C., Albash, T., Lidar, D. A., Zanardi, P. (2016). Adiabaticity in open quantum systems. Phys. Rev. A/American Physical Society. Vol. 93, pp. 032118.
    • Vinci, W., Albash, T., Lidar, D. A. (2016). Nested quantum annealing correction. Nature Quantum Information/The Author(s) SN -. Vol. 2, pp. 16017.
    • Albash, T., Hen, I., Spedalieri, F. M., Lidar, D. A. (2015). Reexamination of the evidence for entanglement in a quantum annealer. Phys. Rev. A/American Physical Society. Vol. 92, pp. 062328.
    • Albash, T., Johnson, C. V., MacDonald, S. (2015). Entanglement entropy of magnetic electron stars. Journal of High Energy Physics. Vol. 2015 (9), pp. 173.
    • Albash, T., Lidar, D. A. (2015). Decoherence in adiabatic quantum computation. Phys. Rev. A/American Physical Society. Vol. 91, pp. 062320.
    • Albash, T., Rønnow, T. F., Troyer, M., Lidar, D. A. (2015). Reexamining classical and quantum models for the D-Wave One processor. The European Physical Journal Special Topics. Vol. 224 (1), pp. 111-129.
    • Albash, T., Vinci, W., Mishra, A., Warburton, P. A., Lidar, D. A. (2015). Consistency tests of classical and quantum models for a quantum annealer. Phys. Rev. A/American Physical Society. Vol. 91, pp. 042314.
    • Hen, I., Job, J., Albash, T., Ronnow, T. F., Troyer, M., Lidar, D. A. (2015). Probing for quantum speedup in spin-glass problems with planted solutions. Phys. Rev. A/American Physical Society. Vol. 92, pp. 042325.
    • Pudenz, K. L., Albash, T., Lidar, D. A. (2015). Quantum annealing correction for random Ising problems. Phys. Rev. A/American Physical Society. Vol. 91, pp. 042302.
    • Vinci, W., Albash, T., Paz-Silva, G., Hen, I., Lidar, D. A. (2015). Quantum annealing correction with minor embedding. Phys. Rev. A/American Physical Society. Vol. 92, pp. 042310.
    • Levi, A. F., Venuti, L. C., Albash, T., Haas, S. (2014). Coherent control of non-Markovian photon-resonator dynamics. Phys. Rev. A/American Physical Society. Vol. 90, pp. 022119.
    • Pudenz, K. L., Albash, T., Lidar, D. A. (2014). Error-corrected quantum annealing with hundreds of qubits. Nat. Commun./Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved.. Vol. 5, pp. 3243.
    • Albash, T., Lidar, D. A., Marvian, M., Zanardi, P. (2013). Fluctuation theorems for quantum processes. Phys. Rev. E/American Physical Society. Vol. 88, pp. 032146.
    • Boixo, S., Albash, T., Spedalieri, F. M., Chancellor, N., Lidar, D. A. (2013). Experimental signature of programmable quantum annealing. Nat. Commun./Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved.. Vol. 4, pp. 2067.
    • Majenz, C., Albash, T., Breuer, H., Lidar, D. A. (2013). Coarse graining can beat the rotating-wave approximation in quantum Markovian master equations. Phys. Rev. A/American Physical Society. Vol. 88, pp. 012103.
    • Albash, T., Boixo, S., Lidar, D. A., Zanardi, P. (2012). Quantum adiabatic Markovian master equations. New Journal of Physics. Vol. 14 (12), pp. 123016.
    • Albash, T., Johnson, C. V. (2012). Holographic entanglement entropy and renormalization group flow. Journal of High Energy Physics. Vol. 2012 (2), pp. 95.
    • Albash, T., Johnson, C. V. (2012). Holographic studies of entanglement entropy in superconductors. Journal of High Energy Physics. Vol. 2012 (5), pp. 79.
    • Chang, Y., Albash, T., Haas, S. (2012). Quantum Hall states in graphene from strain-induced nonuniform magnetic fields. Phys. Rev. B/American Physical Society. Vol. 86, pp. 125402.
    • Albash, T., Johnson, C. V. (2011). Evolution of holographic entanglement entropy after thermal and electromagnetic quenches. New Journal of Physics. Vol. 13 (4), pp. 045017.
    • Albash, T., Johnson, C. V. (2011). Dynamics of fundamental matter in $ backslashmathcalN = 2* $ Yang-Mills theory. Journal of High Energy Physics. Vol. 2011 (4), pp. 12.
    • Albash, T., Johnson, C. V. (2011). Thermal dynamics of quarks and mesons $ backslashmathcalN = 2^* $ Yang-Mills theory. Journal of High Energy Physics. Vol. 2011 (7), pp. 63.
    • Albash, T., Johnson, C. V. (2010). Holographic aspects of Fermi liquids in a background magnetic field. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. Vol. 43 (34), pp. 345405.
    • Albash, T., Johnson, C. V. (2010). Landau levels, magnetic fields and holographic Fermi liquids. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. Vol. 43 (34), pp. 345404.
    • Albash, T., Johnson, C. V. (2009). Vortex and droplet engineering in a holographic superconductor. Phys. Rev. D/American Physical Society. Vol. 80, pp. 126009.
    • Albash, T., Filev, V., Johnson, C. V., Kundu, A. (2008). Topology-changing first order phase transition and the dynamics of flavor. Phys. Rev. D/American Physical Society. Vol. 77, pp. 066004.
    • Albash, T., Filev, V., Johnson, C. V., Kundu, A. (2008). Global R-currents and phase transitions in large N c gauge theory. Journal of High Energy Physics. Vol. 2008 (12), pp. 033.
    • Albash, T., Filev, V., Johnson, C. V., Kundu, A. (2008). Finite temperature large N gauge theory with quarks in an external magnetic field. Journal of High Energy Physics. Vol. 2008 (07), pp. 080.
    • Albash, T., Filev, V., Johnson, C. V., Kundu, A. (2008). Quarks in an external electric field in finite temperature large N gauge theory. Journal of High Energy Physics. Vol. 2008 (08), pp. 092.
    • Albash, T., Johnson, C. V. (2008). A holographic superconductor in an external magnetic field. Journal of High Energy Physics. Vol. 2008 (09), pp. 121.