Welcome to the Machado Group!
Quantum mechanics offers fundamentally new ways to manipulate and control the physical world. We have recently begun exploring these capabilities in large-scale quantum coherent systems, opening opportunities for probing novel physical phenomena and developing new technologies in communication, computing, and sensing. However, realising these opportunities requires theoretical insights into which protocols can best leverage quantum resources and how to implement them within the constraints of real platforms.
In the Machado lab, we work to bridge this gap between opportunity and capability across three different but complementary directions. We develop protocols for connecting distant quantum systems through quantum networks, enabling robust communication and distributed computation and sensing. We design new quantum sensing techniques that leverage quantum computation and decoherence dynamics to probe materials and physical phenomena. Finally, we explore how to generate and study highly entangled quantum states to discover new forms of correlated quantum matter.
About Francisco
Francisco Machado is a Group Leader at QuTech and the Principal Investigator of the Machado Lab. He received his Bachelor’s degree from MIT and his PhD from UC Berkeley under the supervision of Prof. Norman Yao, where he worked on the dynamics of many-body interacting quantum systems. Following his PhD, he was an ITAMP postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, working at the intersection of quantum information, quantum sensing, and many-body physics. His research is driven by two complementary questions: how do we understand the complexity of many-body quantum systems, and how do we harness that complexity to build new quantum technologies?”
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