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Daniel Lidar

Associate Professor of Chemistry and Electrical Engineering

Contact Information
Office: SSC 609
Phone: (213)740-0198
E-mail: lidar@usc.edu

LINKS
Personal Website
 

Biographical Sketch
Daniel Lidar has been an Associate Professor of Chemistry and Electrical Engineering at USC since July '05. He also holds a cross appointment in Physics. He received a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1997. He was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley from 1997 to 2000. In 2000 he joined the faculty at the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, and was promoted with tenure to the rank of Associate Professor in 2004. His research focuses on control of quantum systems, with a particular emphasis on quantum information processing. Lidar is the founding Director of the USC Center for Quantum Information Science & Technology. He is the recipient of a number of awards and honors, including a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, and the Young Explorer Award given by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research for the top 20 researchers in Canada under age 40. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Senior Member of the IEEE. Lidar is the author or co-author of more than 100 technical research articles, and holds two patents.
 

Education
B.S. Mathematics and Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1989
M.S. Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1995
Ph.D. Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1997
 

Postdoctoral Training
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, 1997-2000  
 

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History
Associate Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Electrical Engineering-Systems, Cross Appointment in Physics, University of Southern California, 07/01/2005-  
Associate Professor of Chemistry. Cross Appointments in Physics and Mathematics., University of Toronto, 07/01/2004-06/30/2006  
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Cross appointments in Physics and Mathematics., University of Toronto, 09/01/2000-06/30/2004  
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests
Dynamics and control of open quantum systems, quantum information science, and the physical implementation of quantum information processors. Current scientific interests include: • Closed-loop learning algorithms and open-loop methods for reducing decoherence in open quantum systems, with emphasis on quantum information processing • Quantum computation with naturally available interactions, in particular in solid state devices such as quantum dots • Theory of development of small quantum information processors using currently available or near-term technology • Efficient algorithms for simulation of physical systems on quantum computers • Quantum phase transitions and their connection to quantum information theory • Adiabatic quantum computing and its implementation in real physical systems
 

Research Keywords
Quantum computers, quantum computation, quantum open systems, decoherence, quantum error correction, quantum dots, quantum control, quantum algorithms, quantum phase transitions, quantum information theory, entanglement.
 

Funded Research

Contracts and Grants Awarded
Adiabatic Quantum Computing in Open Systems: Methodology, Performance, and Error Correction (NSF-EMT), Daniel Lidar, $400,000, 10/01/2007-09/30/2010  
Methodologies for Quantum Error Correction (DARPA (subcontract via HRL Laboratories, LLC)), Daniel Lidar, $405,000, 04/01/2007-03/31/2010  
First International Conference on Quantum Error Correction (ARO), Daniel Lidar, $30,000, 2007-2008   
Spin Bus for Quantum Information Processing (NSF-EMT), Daniel Lidar, Mark Friesen (UW Madison), Xu-Dong Hu (SUNY Buffalo), $300,000, 08/01/2005-07/31/2008  
Quantum Computational Complexity of Spin Glasses (Army Research Office), Daniel Lidar, $203,281, 08/01/2005-06/30/2008  
Sloan Research Fellowship in Chemistry (Sloan Foundation), Daniel Lidar, $40,000, 09/16/2003-09/15/2007  
Tailored Quantum Error Correction (DARPA-QUIST), Daniel Lidar, Aephraim Steinberg (University of Toronto), $1,160,000, 07/01/2001-06/30/2007  
 

Gifts and Endowments
First International Conference on Quantum Error Correction , (IQI-Caltech), $5,000, 2007-2008   
First International Conference on Quantum Error Correction , (IQC-Waterloo), $5,000, 2007-2008   
First International Conference on Quantum Error Correction , (Cambridge University Press), $5,000, 2007-2008   
First International Conference on Quantum Error Correction , (registration fees), $21,972, 12/17/2007-12/21/2007  
 

USC Funding
Zumberge Fund. CQIST: CQIST: Center for Quantum Information Science & Technology. An Organized Research Unit between the College and VSoE., $50,000, 2007-2008   
College Programs, Projects, and Centers Initiative. CQIST: CQIST: Center for Quantum Information Science & Technology., $40,000, 2007-2008   
VSoE. First International Conference on Quantum Error Correction : In support of the First International Conference on Quantum Error Correction., $5,000, 2007-2008   
 

Proposals Submitted
NSF-CHE, Encouraged, Daniel Lidar, Dieter Suter (Dortmund), $0, Spring 2008   
NSF-ENG, Pending, Daniel Lidar, $300,000, Spring 2008   
NSF-CCF, Pending, Massoud Pedram, Daniel Lidar, Anthony Levy, Viktor Prasanna, Birgitta Whaley (UC Berkeley), $9,795,418, Fall 2007   
NSF-PHY, Pending, Paolo Zanardi, Daniel Lidar, $591,157, Fall 2007   
NSF-CCF, Pending, Daniel Lidar, $376,527, Spring 2007   
 

Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions
Institute for Optical Sciences, University of Toronto, Affiliate Member,http://www.optics.utoronto.ca/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=2&MMN_position=2:2
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Affiliate Member,http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30&Itemid=73&e=Affiliate%20Members&cat_id=43&cat_table=2
 

Conferences and Other Presentations

Conference Presentations
"Fault Tolerant Quantum Dynamical Decoupling", Noise, Information and Complexity at Quantum Scale , Keynote Talk, Majorana Center, Erice, Italy, Invited, 2007-2008   
"invitation declined", Workshop on dynamical behavior of decoherence and related issues, Talk, Nara, Japan, Invited, 2007-2008   
"invitation declined", Third International Symposium on Communications, Control and Signal Processing, Talk, Malta, Invited, 2007-2008   
"invitation declined", Asia Pacific Workshop and Conference on Quantum Information Science 2007, Talk, Singapore, Invited, 2007-2008   
"invitation declined", NSF Conference on Topological Quantum Field Theory, Talk, Texas, University of Texas, Invited, 2007-2008   
"invitation declined", PHYSCON 2007, Symposium on Dynamical Control of Quantum Entanglement and Decoherence, Talk, Germany, Invited, 2007-2008   
"unable to attend", Workshop on Principles and Application of Control in Quantum, Plenary Talk, Sydney, Australia, Invited, 2007-2008   
"Opening Statement", 1st Int'l Conference on Quantum Error Correction, Chair and co-organizer, University of Southern California, Invited, Fall 2007   
"Adiabatic Quantum Computing in Open Systems", 37th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics , Talk, Snowbird, Utah, Invited, 2006-2007   
"Adiabatic Quantum Computing in Open Systems", International Conference on Quantum Computing and Many-Body Systems, Talk, Key West, Florida, Invited, 2006-2007   
"Adiabaticity in Open Quantum Systems", Workshop on Theory and Technology in Quantum Information, Communication, Computation and Cryptograph, Talk, Abdus Salaam Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, Invited, 2006-2007   
"Adiabaticity in Open Quantum Systems", 3rd Workshop on Decoherence, Entanglement and Information in Complex Systems, Talk, Eilat, Israel, Invited, 2006-2007   
"Fault Tolerant Quantum Dynamical Decoupling", FTQC II, the 2nd workshop Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation, , Talk, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Invited, 2006-2007   
"invitation declined", Theoretical and Experimental Foundations of Recent Quantum Technology, Talk, Durban, South Africa, Invited, 2006-2007   
"invitation declined", Third Feynman Festival Conference, Talk, Maryland, Invited, 2006-2007   
"invitation declined", Canada Math Conference, Special Session on Control, Talk, Toronto, Canada, Invited, 2006-2007   
 

Other Presentations
"Decoherence Control in Quantum Computers", Physics Colloquium, Cal State Northridge, Northridge, California, 2007-2008   
"Session Chair", APS March Meeting, session on "Entanglement", American Physical Society, Denver, Colorado, 2007-2008   
"Decoherence Control in Quantum Computers", Quantum Seminar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, 08/2007  
"Fault Tolerant Quantum Dynamical Decoupling", Chemical Physics Seminar, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, 08/2007  
"Four Short Pieces in Quantum Computation", Quantum Lunch Seminar, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, 08/2006  
 

Other Research
Guest Editor of J. Phys. B 40 (2007), special issue on "Dynamical Control of Entanglement and Decoherence", Spring 2007   
U.S. Patent 7,018,852 entitled Methods for Single Qubit Gate Teleportation. Inventors: L.-A. Wu, D.A. Lidar, and A. Blais. Assignees: D-Wave Systems, Inc. (Vancouver, CA), The Governing Council of the University of Toronto (Toronto, CA). Approved: March 28, 2006. , Spring 2007   
U.S. Patent 7,184,555 entitled Quantum computation. Inventors: K.B. Whaley, D.A. Lidar, J. Kempe, D. Bacon. Assignee: Magiq Technologies, Inc. (New York, NY). Approved: February 27, 2007. , Spring 2007   
Guest Editor of Quant. Info. and Computation 5 (2005), special issue on "Quantum Information and Quantum Control"., Fall 2005   
Patent pending: U.S. Patent Application #10/788,546 entitled Dressed Qubits, filed in the United States on February 27, 2004 by Pennie & Edmonds LLP for D-Wave Systems, Inc. (Vancouver)., Spring 2004   
Patent pending: U.S. Patent Application #20040000666 entitled Encoding and Error Suppression for Superconducting Quantum Computers, filed April 4, 2003 by Pennie & Edmonds LLP for D-Wave Systems, Inc. (Vancouver)., Spring 2003   
 

Publications

Journal Article
Mizel, A., Lidar, D. A., Mitchell, M. (2007). Simple proof of equivalence between adiabatic quantum computation and the circuit model. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 99 (7), pp. 4.
Shabani, A., Lidar, D. A. (2007). Linear Quantum Error Correction. Physical Review Letters. arXiv
Lidar, D. A. (2007). Towards Fault Tolerant Adiabatic Quantum Computation. Physical Review Letters. arXiv
Mohseni, M., Lidar, D. A. (2007). Direct characterization of quantum dynamics: General theory. Physical Review A. Vol. 75 (6), pp. 15.
Khodjasteh, K., Lidar, D. A. (2007). Performance of deterministic dynamical decoupling schemes: Concatenated and periodic pulse sequences. Physical Review A. Vol. 75 (6), pp. 16.
Friesen, M., Biswas, A., Hu, X. D., Lidar, D. A. (2007). Efficient multiqubit entanglement via a spin bus. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 98 (23), pp. 4.
Hamma, A., Zhang, W., Haas, S., Lidar, D. A. (2007). Entanglement, fidelity and topological entropy in a quantum phase transition to topological order. Physical Review Letters. arXiv
Grace, M., Brif, C., Rabitz, H., Walmsley, I. A., Kosut, R. L., Lidar, D. A. (2007). Optimal control of quantum gates and suppression of decoherence in a system of interacting two-level particles. Journal of Physics B-Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics. Vol. 40 (9), pp. S103-S125.
Dasgupta, S., Lidar, D. A. (2007). Decoherence-induced geometric phase in a multilevel atomic system. Journal of Physics B-Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics. Vol. 40 (9), pp. S127-S142.
Akulin, V. M., Kurizki, G., Lidar, D. A. (2007). How to control decoherence and entanglement in quantum complex systems?. Journal of Physics B-Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics. Vol. 40 (9), pp. 2.
Mohseni, M., Rezakhani, A., Lidar, D. A. (2007). Quantum Process Tomography: Resource Analysis of Different Strategies. Physical Review A. arXiv
Biswas, A., Lidar, D. A. (2006). Robust transmission of non-Gaussian entanglement over optical fibers. Physical Review A. Vol. 74 (6), pp. 9.
Wu, L. A., Sarandy, M. S., Lidar, D. A., Sham, L. J. (2006). Linking entanglement and quantum phase transitions via density-functional theory. Physical Review A. Vol. 74 (5), pp. 6.
Mohseni, M., Lidar, D. A. (2006). Direct characterization of quantum dynamics. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 97 (17), pp. 4.
Sarandy, M. S., Lidar, D. A. (2006). Abelian and non-Abelian geometric phases in adiabatic open quantum systems. Physical Review A. Vol. 73 (6), pp. 10.
Woodworth, R., Mizel, A., Lidar, D. A. (2006). Few-body spin couplings and their implications for universal quantum computation. Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter. Vol. 18 (21), pp. S721-S744.
Alicki, R., Lidar, D. A., Zanardi, P. (2006). Internal consistency of fault-tolerant quantum error correction in light of rigorous derivations of the quantum Markovian limit. Physical Review A. Vol. 73 (5), pp. 16.
Glenn, D. R., Lidar, D. A., Apkarian, V. A. (2006). Quantum logic gates in iodine vapor using time-frequency resolved coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering: a theoretical study. Molecular Physics. Vol. 104 (8), pp. 1249-1266.
Grace, M., Brif, C., Rabitz, H., Walmsley, I., Kosut, R., Lidar, D. A. (2006). Encoding a qubit into multilevel subspaces. New Journal of Physics. Vol. 8, pp. 29.
Wu, L. A., Lidar, D. A. (2006). Quantum malware. Quantum Information Processing. Vol. 5 (2), pp. 69-81.
Lidar, D. A., Shabani, A., Alicki, R. (2005). Conditions for strictly purity-decreasing quantum Markovian dynamics. Chemical Physics. Vol. 322 (1-2), pp. 82-86.
Wu, L. A., Zanardi, P., Lidar, D. A. (2005). Holonomic quantum computation in decoherence-free subspaces. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 95 (13), pp. 4.
Wu, L. A., Bandyopadhyay, S., Sarandy, M. S., Lidar, D. A. (2005). Entanglement observables and witnesses for interacting quantum spin systems. Physical Review A. Vol. 72 (3), pp. 5.
Shabani, A., Lidar, D. A. (2005). Completely positive post-Markovian master equation via a measurement approach. Physical Review A. Vol. 71 (2), pp. 4.
Shabani, A., Lidar, D. A. (2005). Theory of initialization-free decoherence-free subspaces and subsystems. Physical Review A. Vol. 72 (4), pp. 14.
Sarandy, M. S., Lidar, D. A. (2005). Adiabatic approximation in open quantum systems. Physical Review A. Vol. 71 (1), pp. 12.
Sarandy, M. S., Lidar, D. A. (2005). Adiabatic quantum computation in open systems. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 95 (25), pp. 4.
Mohseni, M., Lidar, D. A. (2005). Fault-tolerant quantum computation via exchange interactions. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 94 (4), pp. 4.
Lidar, D. A., Schneider, S. (2005). Stabilizing qubit coherence via tracking-control. Quantum Information & Computation. Vol. 5 (4-5), pp. 350-363.
Lidar, D. A., Khodjasteh, K. (2005). Robust dynamical decoupling: Feedback-free error correction. International Journal of Quantum Information. Vol. 3, pp. 41-52.
Lidar, D. A. (2005). Against the odds of imperfection. Nature Physics. Vol. 1 (3), pp. 145-146.
Khodjasteh, K., Lidar, D. A. (2005). Quantum computing in the presence of spontaneous emission by a combined dynamical decoupling and quantum-error-correction strategy (vol 68, pg 022322, 2003). Physical Review A. Vol. 72 (2), pp. 2.
Khodjasteh, K., Lidar, D. A. (2005). Universal fault-tolerant quantum computation in the presence of spontaneous emission and collective dephasing (vol 89, pg 197904, 2002). Physical Review Letters. Vol. 95 (9), pp. 1.
Khodjasteh, K., Lidar, D. A. (2005). Fault-tolerant quantum dynamical decoupling. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 95 (18), pp. 4.
Facchi, P., Tasaki, S., Pascazio, S., Nakazato, H., Tokuse, A., Lidar, D. A. (2005). Control of decoherence: Analysis and comparison of three different strategies. Physical Review A. Vol. 71 (2), pp. 22.
Byrd, M. S., Lidar, D. A., Wu, L. A., Zanardi, P. (2005). Universal leakage elimination. Physical Review A. Vol. 71 (5), pp. 14.
Brumer, P., Lidar, D. A., Lo, H. K., Steinberg, A. (2005). Quantum information and quantum control. Quantum Information & Computation. Vol. 5 (4-5), pp. 273-274.
Bandyopadhyay, S., Lidar, D. A. (2005). Robustness of multiqubit entanglement in the independent decoherence model. Physical Review A. Vol. 72 (4), pp. 6.
Zanardi, P., Lidar, D. A., Lloyd, S. (2004). Quantum tensor product structures are observable induced. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 92 (6), pp. 4.
Zanardi, P., Lidar, D. A. (2004). Purity and state fidelity of quantum channels. Physical Review A. Vol. 70 (1), pp. 7.
Wu, L. A., Sarandy, M. S., Lidar, D. A. (2004). Quantum phase transitions and bipartite entanglement. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 93 (25), pp. 4.
Wu, L. A., Lidar, D. A., Schneider, S. (2004). Long-range entanglement generation via frequent measurements. Physical Review A. Vol. 70 (3), pp. 7.
Wu, L. A., Lidar, D. A., Friesen, M. (2004). One-spin quantum logic gates from exchange interactions and a global magnetic field. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 93 (3), pp. 4.
Wu, L. A., Lidar, D. A. (2004). Overcoming quantum noise in optical fibers. Physical Review A. Vol. 70 (6), pp. 8.
Shiokawa, K., Lidar, D. A. (2004). Dynamical decoupling using slow pulses: Efficient suppression of 1/f noise. Physical Review A. Vol. 69 (3), pp. 4.
Mizel, A., Lidar, D. A. (2004). Three- and four-body interactions in spin-based quantum computers. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 92 (7), pp. 4.
Mizel, A., Lidar, D. A. (2004). Exchange interaction between three and four coupled quantum dots: Theory and applications to quantum computing. Physical Review B. Vol. 70 (11), pp. 13.
Lidar, D. A., Thywissen, J. H. (2004). Exponentially localized magnetic fields for single-spin quantum logic gates. Journal of Applied Physics. Vol. 96 (1), pp. 754-758.
Lidar, D. A. (2004). On the quantum computational complexity of the Ising spin glass partition function and of knot invariants. New Journal of Physics. Vol. 6, pp. 15.
Facchi, P., Lidar, D. A., Pascazio, S. (2004). Unification of dynamical decoupling and the quantum Zeno effect. Physical Review A. Vol. 69 (3), pp. 6.
Byrd, I. S., Wu, L. A., Lidar, D. A. (2004). Overview of quantum error prevention and leakage elimination. Journal of Modern Optics. Vol. 51 (16-18), pp. 2449-2460.
Bandyopadhyay, S., Lidar, D. A. (2004). Entangling capacities of noisy two-qubit Hamiltonians. Physical Review A. Vol. 70 (1), pp. 4.
Wu, L. A., Lidar, D. A. (2003). Universal quantum computation using exchange interactions and measurements of single- and two-spin observables. Physical Review A. Vol. 67 (5), pp. 4.
Wu, L. A., Lidar, D. A. (2003). Dressed qubits. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 91 (9), pp. 4.
Wu, L. A., Byrd, M. S., Lidar, D. A. (2003). Comment on "Polynomial-time simulation of pairing models on a quantum computer" - Reply. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 90 (24), pp. 1.
Ollerenshaw, J. E., Lidar, D. A., Kay, L. E. (2003). Magnetic resonance realization of decoherence-free quantum computation. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 91 (21), pp. 4.
Lidar, D. A., Wu, L. A. (2003). Encoded recoupling and decoupling: An alternative to quantum error-correcting codes applied to trapped-ion quantum computation. Physical Review A. Vol. 67 (3), pp. 12.
Lidar, D. A. (2003). Comment on "Conservative quantum computing". Physical Review Letters. Vol. 91 (8), pp. 1.
Khodjasteh, K., Lidar, D. A. (2003). Quantum computing in the presence of spontaneous emission by a combined dynamical decoupling and quantum-error-correction strategy. Physical Review A. Vol. 68 (2), pp. 6.
Byrd, M. S., Lidar, D. A. (2003). Empirical determination of dynamical decoupling operations. Physical Review A. Vol. 67 (1), pp. 14.
Byrd, M. S., Lidar, D. A. (2003). Combined error correction techniques for quantum computing architectures. Journal of Modern Optics. Vol. 50 (8), pp. 1285-1297.
Wu, L. A., Lidar, D. A. (2002). Power of anisotropic exchange interactions: Universality and efficient codes for quantum computing. Physical Review A. Vol. 65 (4), pp. 5.
Wu, L. A., Lidar, D. A. (2002). Creating decoherence-free subspaces using strong and fast pulses. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 88 (20), pp. 4.
Wu, L. A., Lidar, D. A. (2002). Qubits as parafermions. Journal of Mathematical Physics. Vol. 43 (9), pp. 4506-4525.
Wu, L. A., Lidar, D. A. (2002). Universal quantum logic from Zeeman and anisotropic exchange interactions. Physical Review A. Vol. 66 (6), pp. 5.
Wu, L. A., Byrd, M. S., Lidar, D. A. (2002). Polynomial-time simulation of pairing models on a quantum computer. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 89 (5), pp. 4.
Wu, L. A., Byrd, M. S., Lidar, D. A. (2002). Polynomial-time simulation of pairing models on a quantum computer (vol 89, art no 057904, 2002). Physical Review Letters. Vol. 89 (13), pp. 1.
Wu, L. A., Byrd, M. S., Lidar, D. A. (2002). Efficient universal leakage elimination for physical and encoded qubits. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 89 (12), pp. 4.
Wu, L. A., Byrd, M. S., Lidar, D. A. (2002). Publisher's note: Polynomial-time simulation of pairing models on a quantum computer (vol 89, art no 057904, 2002). Physical Review Letters. Vol. 89 (19), pp. 1.
Lidar, D. A., Wu, L. A. (2002). Reducing constraints on quantum computer design by encoded selective recoupling. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 88 (1), pp. 4.
Lidar, D. A. (2002). Comment on "Quantum waveguide array generator for performing Fourier transforms: Alternate route to quantum computing" [Appl. Phys. Lett. 79, 2823 (2001)]. Applied Physics Letters. Vol. 80 (13), pp. 2419-2419.
Khodjasteh, K., Lidar, D. A. (2002). Universal fault-tolerant quantum computation in the presence of spontaneous emission and collective dephasing. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 89 (19), pp. 4.
Byrd, M. S., Lidar, D. A. (2002). Comprehensive encoding and decoupling solution to problems of decoherence and design in solid-state quantum computing. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 89 (4), pp. 4.
Brown, K. R., Lidar, D. A., Whaley, K. B. (2002). Quantum computing with quantum dots on quantum linear supports. Physical Review A. Vol. 65 (1), pp. 19.
Bihary, Z., Glenn, D. R., Lidar, D. A., Apkarian, V. A. (2002). An implementation of the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm on molecular vibronic coherences through four-wave mixing: a theoretical study. Chemical Physics Letters. Vol. 360 (5-6), pp. 459-465.
Zadoyan, R., Kohen, D., Lidar, D. A., Apkarian, V. A. (2001). The manipulation of massive ro-vibronic superpositions using time-frequency-resolved coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (TFRCARS): from quantum control to quantum computing. Chemical Physics. Vol. 266 (2-3), pp. 323-351.
Lidar, D. A., Bihary, Z., Whaley, K. B. (2001). From completely positive maps to the quantum Markovian semigroup master equation. Chemical Physics. Vol. 268 (1-3), pp. 35-53.
Lidar, D. A., Bacon, D., Kempe, J., Whaley, K. B. (2001). Decoherence-free subspaces for multiple-qubit errors. II. Universal, fault-tolerant quantum computation. Physical Review A. Vol. 6302 (2), pp. 18.
Lidar, D. A., Bacon, D., Kempe, J., Whaley, K. B. (2001). Decoherence-free subspaces for multiple-qubit errors. I. Characterization. Physical Review A. Vol. 6302 (2), pp. 13.
Kempe, J., Bacon, D., Lidar, D. A., Whaley, K. B. (2001). Theory of decoherence-free fault-tolerant universal quantum computation. Physical Review A. Vol. 6304 (4), pp. 29.
Biham, E., Biham, O., Biron, D., Grassl, M., Lidar, D. A., Shapira, D. (2001). Analysis of generalized Grover quantum search algorithms using recursion equations. Physical Review A. Vol. 6301 (1), pp. 8.
Lidar, D. A., Bacon, D., Kempe, J., Whaley, K. B. (2000). Protecting quantum information encoded in decoherence-free states against exchange errors. Physical Review A. Vol. 61 (5), pp. 5.
Lidar, D. A. (2000). Decoherence-free quantum computation. Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society. Vol. 220, pp. U190-U190.
Bacon, D., Kempe, J., Lidar, D. A., Whaley, K. B. (2000). Universal fault-tolerant quantum computation on decoherence-free subspaces. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 85 (8), pp. 1758-1761.
Lidar, D. A., Wang, H. B. (1999). Calculating the thermal rate constant with exponential speedup on a quantum computer. Physical Review E. Vol. 59 (2), pp. 2429-2438.
Lidar, D. A., Thirumalai, D., Elber, R., Gerber, R. B. (1999). Fractal analysis of protein potential energy landscapes. Physical Review E. Vol. 59 (2), pp. 2231-2243.
Lidar, D. A., Bacon, D., Whaley, K. B. (1999). Concatenating decoherence-free subspaces with quantum error correcting codes. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 82 (22), pp. 4556-4559.
Biham, O., Malcai, O., Lidar, D. A., Avnir, D. (1999). Pattern formation and a clustering transition in power-law sequential adsorption. Physical Review E. Vol. 59 (5), pp. R4713-R4716.
Biham, E., Biham, O., Biron, D., Grassl, M., Lidar, D. A. (1999). Grover's quantum search algorithm for an arbitrary initial amplitude distribution. Physical Review A. Vol. 60 (4), pp. 2742-2745.
Bacon, D., Lidar, D. A., Whaley, K. B. (1999). Robustness of decoherence-free subspaces for quantum computation. Physical Review A. Vol. 60 (3), pp. 1944-1955.
Yinnon, A. T., Lidar, D. A., Gerber, R. B., Zeppenfeld, P., Krzyzowski, M. A., Comsa, G. (1998). Structure determination of disordered metallic sub-monolayers by helium scattering: a theoretical and experimental study. Surface Science. Vol. 410 (1), pp. L721-L726.
Maierle, C. S., Lidar, D. A., Harris, R. A. (1998). How to teleport superpositions of chiral amplitudes. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 81 (26), pp. 5928-5931.
Lidar, D. A., Chuang, I. L., Whaley, K. B. (1998). Decoherence-free subspaces for quantum computation. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 81 (12), pp. 2594-2597.
Lidar, D. A. (1998). Atom scattering from disordered surfaces in the sudden approximation: double collisions effects and quantum liquids. Surface Science. Vol. 411 (3), pp. 231-248.
Lidar, D. A. (1998). Inversion of randomly corrugated surface structure from atom scattering data. Inverse Problems. Vol. 14 (5), pp. 1299-1310.
Lidar, D. A., Biham, O., Malcai, O., Lidax, D. A., Avnir, D. (1998). Fractality in nature - Response. Science. Vol. 279 (5357), pp. 1615-1616.
Biham, O., Malcai, O., Lidar, D. A., Avnir, D. (1998). Is nature fractal? Response. Science. Vol. 279 (5352), pp. 785-786.
Biham, O., Lidar, D. A. (1998). Fractality in nature - Response (vol 279, pg 1615, 1998). Science. Vol. 280 (5361), pp. 185-185.
Avnir, D., Biham, O., Lidar, D. A., Malcai, O. (1998). Is the geometry of nature fractal?. Science. Vol. 279 (5347), pp. 39-40.
Yinnon, A. T., Lidar, D. A., Farbman, I., Gerber, R. B., Zeppenfeld, P., Krzyzowski, M. A., Comsa, G. (1997). He scattering from random adsorbates, disordered compact islands, and fractal submonolayers: Intensity manifestations of surface disorder. Journal of Chemical Physics. Vol. 106 (10), pp. 4228-4242.
Malcai, O., Lidar, D. A., Biham, O., Avnir, D. (1997). Scaling range and cutoffs in empirical fractals. Physical Review E. Vol. 56 (3), pp. 2817-2828.
Lidar, D. A., Biham, O., Avnir, D. (1997). Limited range fractality of randomly adsorbed rods. Journal of Chemical Physics. Vol. 106 (24), pp. 10359-10367.
Lidar, D. A., Biham, O. (1997). Simulating Ising spin glasses on a quantum computer. Physical Review E. Vol. 56 (3), pp. 3661-3681.
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Lidar, D. A., Hamburger, D. A., Yinnon, A. T., Gerber, R. B. (1996). Fractal dimension of disordered submonolayers: Determination from He scattering data. Chemical Physics Letters. Vol. 253 (3-4), pp. 223-229.
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Manuscript
Shabani, A., Lidar, D. A. (2006). Quantum Error Correction Beyond Completely Positive Maps. arXiv
Kosut, R. L., Lidar, D. A. (2006). Quantum Error Correction via Convex Optimization. arXiv
Mohseni, M., Lidar, D. A. (2006). Reply to M. Ziman’s "Notes on Optimality of Direct Characterization of Quantum Dynamics". arXiv
 

Other
Biron, D., Biham, O., Biham, E., Grassl, M., Lidar, D. A. (1999). Generalized grover search algorithm for arbitrary initial amplitude distribution. Quantum Computing and Quantum CommunicationsSpringer-Verlag Berlin.
 

New Courses Developed
Introduction to Quantum Error Correction, EE 599, Spring 2007   
Theory of Open Quantum Systems, CHM 599, Fall 2006   
The Cutting Edge in Quantum Information Science, CHM 599, Students presented lectures on their research in quantum information theory. Instructors provided feedback and guidance on topics., Spring 2006   
 

Honors and Awards
AcademicKeys Who’s Who in Sciences Higher Education (WWSHE), 2006-  
Fellow (or Equivalent) of National Society in Discipline, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fall 2007   
Keynote Speaker, Noise, Information and Compexity at Quantum Scale Workshop, Majorana Center, Erice, Italy, Fall 2007   
Invited to be Plenary speaker, Workshop on Principles and Applications of Control in Quantum, Sydney, Australia, Spring 2007   
Senior Member of IEEE, Spring 2007   
Plenary Speaker, 1st Asia-Pacific Conference on Quantum Information Science, Tainan, Taiwan, Fall 2004   
Sloan Research Fellowship, Fall 2003   
Keynote Speaker at SPIE Conference on Fluctuations and Noise, Spring 2003   
Plenary Speaker, Inauguration of the Center for Quantum Science, Michigan State University, Lansing, Fall 2002   
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Top Twenty Researchers under Age 40 , Spring 2002   
John C. Polanyi Prize in Chemistry, Spring 2001   
Ontario Premier’s Research Excellence Award, Spring 2001   
Fulbright Award, Fall 1997   
Rothschild Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship , Fall 1997   
Fritz Haber Center Prize, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Spring 1997   
Intel-Dean doctoral Prize, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Fall 1996   
 

Service to the University

Administrative Appointments
Director, USC Center for Quantum Information Science & Technology, 2007-  
 

Review Panels
Various agencies, Research Council of Norway, 2006-  
Various agencies, National Science Foundation (NSF), Natural Sciences and Engineering Council Canada, (NSERC), 2000-  
Various agencies, Israeli Ministry of Science, Science Foundation Ireland, Alberta Ingenuity Fund, 2000-  
University of Michigan NSF-FOCUS Center, Member of the External Advisory Board, 2005-2006   
 

Media, Alumni, and Community Relations
News article on the First International Conference on Quantum Error Correction (http://viterbi.usc.e, Spring 2008   
 

Service to the Profession

Conferences Organized
Chair and co-organizer, 1st Int'l Conference on Quantum Error Correction, USC, Conference site: http://qserver.usc.edu/qec07/, Fall 2007   
co-organizer, First International Conference on Quantum Information and Quantum Control, Fields Institute, Toronto, Fall 2004   
Chair and organizer, DARPA-FoQuS Workshop on "Fault-Tolerant Quantum Error Correction for Scalable Quantum Computing Architectures", Chicago, Spring 2004   
co-organizer, Workshop and Symposium on Information Geometry and Quantum Computing, Fields Institute, Toronto, Spring 2004   
co-organizer, Summer School in Quantum Information Processing, Fields Institute, Toronto, Spring 2001   
co-organizer, Workshop on Physical Realizations of Quantum Information Processors, UC Berkeley, Spring 1999   
 

Editorships and Editorial Boards
Editorial Board member and founding member, Quantum Information Processing, 2001-  
Guest Editor, J. Phys . B 40 (2007), special issue on "Dynamical Control of Entanglement and Decoherence", Spring 2007   
Guest Editor, Quant. Info. and Computation 5 (2005), special issue on "Quantum Information and Quantum Control", Fall 2005   
 

Professional Memberships
IEEE, 2007-  
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1996-  
American Chemical Society, 1996-  
American Physical Society, 1996-  
 

Review Panels
Various agencies, Research Council of Norway, 2006-  
Various agencies, National Science Foundation (NSF), Natural Sciences and Engineering Council Canada, (NSERC), 2000-  
Various agencies, Israeli Ministry of Science, Science Foundation Ireland, Alberta Ingenuity Fund, 2000-  
University of Michigan NSF-FOCUS Center, Member of the External Advisory Board, 2005-2006   
 

Reviewer for Publication
Various journals, Referee for Nature, Nature Phys., Science, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, Phys. Rev. Lett., Phys. Rev. A&B, J. Chem. Phys., Chem. Phys., Phys. Lett. A, J. Phys. A, Quantum Info. Processing, NanoLetters, Complex Systems, New J. of Phys., J. Appl. Math., Europhys. Lett., Annals of Physics, FOCS, IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, IEEE Trans. on Comm., IEEE Trans. on Nanotechnology, Intl. J. of Robust and Nonlinear Control, J. Opt. B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt. , 1997-  
 

Media, Alumni, and Community Relations
"Attack of the quantum worms", New Scientist, 29 October 2005, pp. 30-33, 2005-2006   
"Single field shapes quantum bits", by Eric Smalley, Technology Research News, November 3/10, 2004, 2004-2005   
"Quantum Computing: Bit by Bit", The Economist, April 3, 2004, pp. 77-78, 2003-2004   
"Sturdy quantum computing demoed", by Eric Smalley, Technology Research News, April 7/14, 2004, 2003-2004   
"World Computations", Lifestyles Magazine Vol. 31, No. 182, 2002, pp. 38-40, 2002-2003   
"A quantum leap in the way computers think", Toronto Star, March 28, 2002 (National Report section), 2001-2002   
"Quantum Protection", NSERC Newsbureau Bulletin No. 46, published April 25, 2002, 2001-2002   
"Alternative quantum bits go natural", Technology Research News, April 2001, 2000-2001   
"Quantum Computers", Chemical & Engineering News cover story, November 2000, 2000-2001   
Haven for Quantum Computation", Science, Editor’s Choice, September 2000, 1999-2000   
"Quantum Computing for Chemists", New Scientist, August 1998, 1997-1998   
 

Other Service to the Profession
Maintain a website listing all books on or related to quantum information (http://qserver.usc.edu/books), 2006-  
Maintain a website listing all courses on or related to quantum information (http://qserver.usc.edu/courses), 2005-  
Maintain a website listing all worldwide conferences in or related to quantum information (http://qserver.usc.edu/confs) , 2000-  
 
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