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 Chapter
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.