Crystal Senko
Biography
Dr. Senko’s research focuses on using trapped ions for quantum simulations and quantum computing applications. Her work also explores qudits and how to improve the efficiency of encoding a logical unit of information using the multiple levels of a qudit.
Research Interests
Quantum Science
Quantum Computing
Quantum Information Processing
Quantum Simulation
Photonics
Manipulation of quantum systems with trapped ions
Quantum computation with trapped ions
Phases and dynamics of interacting spin systems
Scholarly Research
Education
2014 PhD, Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
2009 BSc, Physics, Duke University, North Carolina, USA
Affiliations and Volunteer Work
Faculty, Institute for Quantum Computing
Teaching*
- PHYS 334 - Quantum Physics 2
- Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
- PHYS 701 - Quantum Mechanics 1
- Taught in 2020
- PHYS 768 - Special Topics in Quantum Information Processing
- Taught in 2020, 2022, 2024
- QIC 890 - Topics in Quantum Information
- Taught in 2020, 2022, 2024
* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.
Selected/Recent Publications
Atom-by-atom assembly of defect-free one-dimensional cold atom arrays M Endres, H Bernien, A Keesling, H Levine, ER Anschuetz, A Krajenbrink, ...Science, aah3752
Realization of a Quantum Integer-Spin Chain with Controllable Interactions C Senko, P Richerme, J Smith, A Lee, I Cohen, A Retzker, C Monroe Physical Review X 5, 021026
Coherent imaging spectroscopy of a quantum many-body spin system C Senko, J Smith, P Richerme, A Lee, WC Campbell, C Monroe Science 345 (6195), 430-433
Non-local propagation of correlations in quantum systems with long-range interactions P Richerme, ZX Gong, A Lee, C Senko, J Smith, M Foss-Feig, ...Nature 511 (7508), 198-201
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