Amir Kalev | QuICS

Hartree Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-2020)

Amir Kalev was a QuICS Hartree Postdoctoral Fellow in quantum information science from 2016-2020. His research is in quantum measurement theory, quantum tomography and estimation, and quantum foundations. Kalev’s research main goal is to develop tools, tomographic and otherwise, that would allow efficient diagnose of actual experimental errors in preparing, manipulating, and measuring quantum systems. He is also working on problems related to information theoretic aspects in quantum measurement theory to understand optimality and efficiency of quantum measurements. He received his doctorate in physics from the Technion in 2008. In 2020 Amir joined ISI/USC as a Computer Scientist.

Publications

2023

S. Majidy, Braasch, W. F., Lasek, A., Upadhyaya, T., Kalev, A., and Halpern, N. Yunger, “Noncommuting conserved charges in quantum thermodynamics and beyond”, Nature Reviews Physics, 2023.

F. Kranzl, Lasek, A., Joshi, M. K., Kalev, A., Blatt, R., Roos, C. F., and Halpern, N. Yunger, “Experimental Observation of Thermalization with Noncommuting Charges”, PRX Quantum, vol. 4, 2023.

2020

A. Kalev and Hen, I., “Simulating Hamiltonian Dynamics with an Off-diagonal Series Expansion”, 2020.

Z. Jiang, Kalev, A., Mruczkiewicz, W., and Neven, H., “Optimal fermion-to-qubit mapping via ternary trees with applications to reduced quantum states learning”, Quantum , vol. 4, no. 276, 2020.

N. Yunger Halpern, Beverland, M. E., and Kalev, A., “Noncommuting conserved charges in quantum many-body thermalization”, Phys. Rev. E , vol. 101, no. 042117, 2020.

2019

A. Kalev and Kyrillidis, A., “Validating and Certifying Stabilizer States”, Phys. Rev. A , vol. 99, no. 042337, 2019.

N. Yunger Halpern, Beverland, M. E., and Kalev, A., “Equilibration to the non-Abelian thermal state in quantum many-body physics”, 2019.

M. Paini and Kalev, A., “An approximate description of quantum states”, 2019.

S. Breiner, Kalev, A., and Miller, C., “Parallel Self-Testing of the GHZ State with a Proof by Diagrams”, EPTCS , vol. 287, pp. 43-66, 2019.

2018

F. G. S. L. Brandão, Kalev, A., Li, T., Lin, C. Yen- Yu, Svore, K. M., and Wu, X., “Quantum SDP Solvers: Large Speed-ups, Optimality, and Applications to Quantum Learning”, To appear at the 46th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 2019), 2018.

E. Shojaee, Jackson, C. S., Riofrio, C. A., Kalev, A., and Deutsch, I. H., “Optimal Pure-State Qubit Tomography via Sequential Weak Measurements”, Phys. Rev. Lett. , vol. 121, no. 130404, 2018.

A. Kyrillidis and Kalev, A., “Implicit regularization and solution uniqueness in over-parameterized matrix sensing”, 2018.

2017

A. Kyrillidis, Kalev, A., Park, D., Bhojanapalli, S., Caramanis, C., and Sanghavi, S., “Provable quantum state tomography via non-convex methods”, 2017.

A. Kalev and Miller, C., “Rigidity of the magic pentagram game”, Quantum Science and Technology, vol. 3, no. 1, p. 015002, 2017.

F. G. S. L. Brandão, Kalev, A., Li, T., Lin, C. Yen- Yu, Svore, K. M., and Wu, X., “Exponential Quantum Speed-ups for Semidefinite Programming with Applications to Quantum Learning”, 2017.