People

Amy Brown

Amy F. Brown is a Ph.D. student in the University of Southern California Physics department who joined Professor Lidar’s lab in 2021. Amy graduated with a B.S. in Physics with a computational emphasis from Harvey Mudd College in 2017. Before joining USC in 2020, Amy worked as the Lead Quantum Solutions Engineer at Rigetti Computing, a quantum computing startup  in Berkeley, CA, starting as an experimental physicist and working her way up the stack to advise researchers around the globe. Her current theoretical research interests include near-term quantum algorithms and error correction protocols.

Room: SSC 611
Email: A F B R O W N AT U S C DOT E D U

Peer Reviewed Publications

• 2. “Testing the Weak Equivalence Principle Using Optical and Near-infrared Crab Pulses”, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 861, Number 1 (2018), by C. Leung, B. Hu, S. Harris, A. Brown, J. Gallicchio, H. Nguyen [link]
• 1. “Astronomical random numbers for quantum foundations experiments”, Phys. Rev. A 97, 042120 (2018), by C. Leung, A. Brown, H. Nguyen, A. S. Friedman, D. I. Kaiser, J. Gallicchio [link]

Preprints

• 2. “Simulating nonlinear optical processes on a superconducting quantum device”, [2406.13003] by Y. Shi, B. Evert, A. F. Brown, V. Tripathi, E. A. Sete, V. Geyko, Y. Cho, J. L DuBois, D. A. Lidar, I. Joseph, M. Reagor.
• 1. “Efficient Chromatic-Number-Based Multi-Qubit Decoherence and Crosstalk Suppression”, [2406.13901] by A. F. Brown, D. A. Lidar.