Publications
2024
L.J.I. Moon*, M.M. Sohoni*, M.A. Shimizu, P. Viswanathan, K. Zhang, E.-A. Kim, P.L. McMahonHamiltonian-reconstruction distance as a success metric for the Variational Quantum Eigensolver
arXiv:2403.11995 (2024) | code repo
T. Onodera*, M.M. Stein*, B.A. Ash, M.M. Sohoni, M. Bosch, R. Yanagimoto, M. Jankowski, T.P. McKenna, T. Wang, G. Shvets, M.R. Shcherbakov, L.G. Wright, P.L. McMahonScaling on-chip photonic neural processors using arbitrarily programmable wave propagation
arXiv:2402.17750 (2024)
F. Presutti, L.G. Wright, S.-Y. Ma, T. Wang, B.K. Malia, T. Onodera, P.L. McMahonHighly multimode visible squeezed light with programmable spectral correlations through broadband up-conversion
arXiv:2401.06119 (2024) | code repo
2023
A. Senanian, S. Prabhu, V. Kremenetski, S. Roy, Y. Cao, J. Kline, T. Onodera, L.G. Wright, X. Wu, V. Fatemi, P.L. McMahonMicrowave signal processing using an analog quantum reservoir computer
arXiv:2312.16166 (2023)
S.-Y. Ma, T. Wang, J. Laydevant, L.G. Wright, P.L. McMahonQuantum-noise-limited optical neural networks operating at a few quanta per activation
arXiv:2307.15712 (2023)
A. Senanian, L.G. Wright, P.F. Wade, H.K. Doyle, P.L. McMahonProgrammable large-scale simulation of bosonic transport in optical synthetic frequency lattices
Nature Physics 19, 1333 - 1339 (2023) | arXiv
T. Wang*, M.M. Sohoni*, L.G. Wright, M.M. Stein, S.-Y. Ma, T. Onodera, M. Anderson, P.L. McMahonImage sensing with multilayer, nonlinear optical neural networks
Nature Photonics 17, 408 - 415 (2023) | arXiv | code repo
M.G. Anderson, S.-Y. Ma, T. Wang, L.G. Wright, P.L. McMahonOptical Transformers
arXiv:2302.10360 (2023)
2022
N. Mohseni, P.L. McMahon*, T. Byrnes*Ising machines as hardware solvers of combinatorial optimization problems
Nature Reviews Physics 4, 363 - 379 (2022) | arXiv
L.G. Wright*, T. Onodera*, M.M. Stein, T. Wang, D.T. Schachter, Z. Hu, P.L. McMahonDeep physical neural networks trained with backpropagation
Nature 601, 549 - 555 (2022) | arXiv | code repo
E. Rosenberg, P. Ginsparg, P.L. McMahonExperimental error mitigation using linear rescaling for variational quantum eigensolving with up to 20 qubits
Quantum Science and Technology 7, 015024 (2022) | arXiv | code repo
T. Wang, S.-Y. Ma, L.G. Wright, T. Onodera, B. Richard, P.L. McMahonAn optical neural network using less than 1 photon per multiplication
Nature Communications 13, 123 (2022) | arXiv | code repo
2021
P. Cha, P. Ginsparg, F. Wu, J. Carrasquilla, P.L. McMahon, E.-A. KimAttention-based quantum tomography
Machine Learning: Science and Technology 3, 01LT01 (2021) | arXiv
2020
R. Yanagimoto*, T. Onodera*, E. Ng, L.G. Wright, P.L. McMahon, H. MabuchiEngineering a Kerr-based Deterministic Cubic Phase Gate via Gaussian Operations
Physical Review Letters 124, 240503 (2020) | arXiv
T. Onodera*, E. Ng*, P.L. McMahonA quantum annealer with fully programmable all-to-all coupling via Floquet engineering
npj Quantum Information 6, 48 (2020) | arXiv
2019
L.G. Wright, P.L. McMahonThe Capacity of Quantum Neural Networks
arXiv:1908.01364 (2019) | poster | poster video summary
R. Yanagimoto, P.L. McMahon, E. Ng, T. Onodera, H. MabuchiEmbedding entanglement generation within a measurement-feedback coherent Ising machine
arXiv:1906.04902 (2019)
R.M. Parrish, E.G. Hohenstein, P.L. McMahon, T.J. MartinezQuantum Computation of Electronic Transitions Using a Variational Quantum Eigensolver
Physical Review Letters 122, 230401 (2019) | arXiv
R. Hamerly*, T. Inagaki*, P.L. McMahon*, D. Venturelli, A. Marandi, T. Onodera, E. Ng, C. Langrock, K. Inaba, T. Honjo, K. Enbutsu, T. Umeki, R. Kasahara, S. Utsunomiya, S. Kako, K. Kawarabayashi, R.L. Byer, M.M. Fejer, H. Mabuchi, D. Englund, E. Rieffel, H. Takesue, Y. YamamotoExperimental investigation of performance differences between Coherent Ising Machines and a quantum annealer
Science Advances 5, 5, eaau0823 (2019) | arXiv
C.J. Layton, P.L. McMahon, W.J. GreenleafLarge-scale, quantitative protein assays on a high-throughput DNA sequencing chip
Molecular Cell 73, 5, 1075-1082 (2019) | bioRxiv
T. Leleu, Y. Yamamoto, P.L. McMahon, K. AiharaDestabilization of Local Minima in Analog Spin Systems by Correction of Amplitude Heterogeneity
Physical Review Letters 122, 040607 (2019) | arXiv
2018
T. Onodera*, E. Ng*, N. Lörch, A. Yamamura, R. Hamerly, P.L. McMahon, A. Marandi, H. MabuchiNonlinear Quantum Behavior of Ultrashort-Pulse Optical Parametric Oscillators
arXiv:1811.10583 (2018)
2017
S. Puri, P.L. McMahon, Y. YamamotoUniversal logic gates for quantum-dot electron-spin qubits using trapped quantum-well exciton polaritons
Physical Review B 95, 125410 (2017)
K.G. Lagoudakis, K.A. Fischer, T. Sarmiento, P.L. McMahon, M. Radulaski, J.L. Zhang, Y. Kelaita, C. Dory, K. Müller, J. VuckovicObservation of Mollow Triplets with Tunable Interactions in Double Lambda Systems of Individual Hole Spins
Physical Review Letters 118, 013602 (2017)
R. She*, A.K. Chakravarty*, C.J. Layton*, L.M. Chircus, J.O.L. Andreasson, N. Damaraju, P.L. McMahon, J.D. Buenrostro, D.F. Jarosz, W.J. GreenleafComprehensive and quantitative mapping of RNA–protein interactions across a transcribed eukaryotic genome
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114, 14, 3619 - 3624 (2017)
2016
K.G. Lagoudakis*, P.L. McMahon*, C. Dory*, K.A. Fischer, K. Müller, V. Borish, D. Dalacu, P.J. Poole, M.E. Reimer, V. Zwiller, Y. Yamamoto, J. VuckovicUltrafast coherent manipulation of trions in site-controlled nanowire quantum dots
Optica 3, 12, 1430 - 1435 (2016)
P.L. McMahon*, A. Marandi*, Y. Haribara, R. Hamerly, C. Langrock, S. Tamate, T. Inagaki, H. Takesue, S. Utsunomiya, K. Aihara, R.L. Byer, M.M. Fejer, H. Mabuchi, Y. YamamotoA fully programmable 100-spin coherent Ising machine with all-to-all connections
Science 354, No. 6312, 614 - 617 (2016)
T. Inagaki, Y. Haribara, K. Igarashi, T. Sonobe, S. Tamate, T. Honjo, A. Marandi, P.L. McMahon, T. Umeki, K. Enbutsu, O. Tadanaga, H. Takenouchi, K. Aihara, K. Kawarabayashi, K. Inoue, S. Utsunomiya, H. TakesueA coherent Ising machine for 2000-node optimization problems
Science 354, No. 6312, 603 - 606 (2016)
K.G. Lagoudakis*, P.L. McMahon*, K.A. Fischer, S. Puri, K. Müller, D. Dalacu, P.J. Poole, M.E. Reimer, V. Zwiller, Y. Yamamoto, J. VuckovicInitialization of a spin qubit in a site-controlled nanowire quantum dot
New Journal of Physics 18 053024 (2016)
2015
P.L. McMahon, K. De GreveTowards Quantum Repeaters with Solid-State Qubits: Spin-Photon Entanglement Generation using Self-Assembled Quantum Dots
In Engineering the Atom-Photon Interaction (Springer-Verlag, eds. A. Predojevic and M. W. Mitchell) | arXiv:1501.03535 (2015)
2014
S. Puri*, P.L. McMahon*, Y. YamamotoSingle-shot quantum nondemolition measurement of a quantum-dot electron spin using cavity exciton-polaritons
Physical Review B 90, 155421 (2014)
2013
K. De Greve, D. Press, P.L. McMahon, Y. YamamotoUltrafast optical control of individual quantum dot spin qubits
Reports on Progress in Physics 76, 092501 (2013)
K. De Greve*, P.L. McMahon*, L. Yu, J.S. Pelc, C. Jones, C.M. Natarajan, N.Y. Kim, E. Abe, S. Maier, C. Schneider, M. Kamp, S. Hoefling, R.H. Hadfield, A. Forchel, M.M. Fejer, Y. YamamotoComplete tomography of a high-fidelity solid-state entangled spin–photon qubit pair
Nature Communications 4, 2228 (2013)
2012
K. De Greve, L. Yu*, P.L. McMahon*, J.S. Pelc*, C.M. Natarajan, N.Y. Kim, E. Abe, S. Maier, C. Schneider, M. Kamp, S. Hoefling, R.H. Hadfield, A. Forchel, M.M. Fejer, Y. YamamotoQuantum-dot spin-photon entanglement via frequency downconversion to telecom wavelength
Nature 491, 421 - 425 (2012)
J.S. Pelc, L. Yu*, K. De Greve*, P.L. McMahon*, C.M. Natarajan, V. Esfandyarpour, S. Maier, C. Schneider, M. Kamp, S. Hoefling, R.H. Hadfield, A. Forchel, Y. Yamamoto, M.M. FejerDownconversion quantum interface for a single quantum dot spin and 1550-nm single-photon channel
Optics Express 20, 25, 27510-27519 (2012)
N.C. Jones, R. Van Meter, A.G. Fowler, P.L. McMahon, J. Kim, T.D. Ladd, Y. YamamotoLayered Architecture for Quantum Computing
Physical Review X 2, 031007 (2012)
N.C. Jones, J.D. Whitfield, P.L. McMahon, M.-H. Yung, R. Van Meter, A. Aspuru-Guzik, Y. YamamotoFaster quantum chemistry simulation on fault-tolerant quantum computers
New Journal of Physics 14, 115023 (2012)
A.P.V. Siemion, G.C. Bower, G. Foster, P.L. McMahon, M.I. Wagner, D. Werthimer, D. Backer, J. Cordes, J. van LeeuwenThe Allen Telescope Array Fly's Eye Survey for Fast Radio Transients
Astrophysical Journal 744, 109 (2012)
2011
K. De Greve, P.L. McMahon, D. Press, T.D. Ladd, D. Bisping, C. Schneider, M. Kamp, L. Worschech, S. Hoefling, A. Forchel, Y. YamamotoCoherent control and suppressed nuclear feedback of a single quantum dot hole qubit
Nature Physics 7, 872 - 878 (2011)
H.-H. Kuo, J.-H. Chu, S.C. Riggs, L. Yu, P.L. McMahon, K. De Greve, Y. Yamamoto, J.G. Analytis, I.R. FisherPossible origin of the nonmonotonic doping dependence of the in-plane resistivity anisotropy of Ba(Fe$_{1-x}T_x$)$_2$As$_2$ ($T$=Co, Ni and Cu)
Physical Review B 84, 054540 (2011)
2010
T.D. Ladd, D. Press, K. De Greve, P.L. McMahon, B. Friess, C. Schneider, M. Kamp, S. Hoefling, A. Forchel, Y. YamamotoPulsed Nuclear Pumping and Spin Diffusion in a Single Charged Quantum Dot
Physical Review Letters 105, 107401 (2010)
T.D. Ladd, D. Press, K. De Greve, P.L. McMahon, B. Friess, C. Schneider, M. Kamp, S. Hoefling, A. Forchel, Y. YamamotoNuclear Feedback in a Single Quantum Dot under Pulsed Optical Control
arXiv:1008.0912 (2010) (Complement to PRL doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.107401 on the same topic.)
J.-H. Chu, J.G. Analytis, K. De Greve, P.L. McMahon, Z. Islam, Y. Yamamoto, I.R. FisherIn-Plane Resistivity Anisotropy in an Underdoped Iron Arsenide Superconductor
Science 329, No. 5993, 824 - 826 (2010)
D. Press, K. De Greve, P.L. McMahon, T.D. Ladd, B. Friess, C. Schneider, M. Kamp, S. Hoefling, A. Forchel, Y. YamamotoUltrafast optical spin echo in a single quantum dot
Nature Photonics 4, 367 - 370 (2010)
K. Stevens, H. Chen, T. Filiba, P. McMahon, Y.S. SongSeqHive: A Reconfigurable Computer Cluster for Genome Re-sequencing
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), 31 August - 2 September 2010
S.K. Kim, P.L. McMahon, K. OlukotunA Large-scale Architecture for Restricted Boltzmann Machines
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), 2 - 4 May 2010
M.J. Keith, A. Jameson, W. Van Straten, M. Bailes, S. Johnston, M. Kramer, A. Possenti, S.D. Bates, N.D.R. Bhat, M. Burgay, S. Burke-Spolaor, N. D'Amico, L. Levin, P.L. McMahon, S. Milia, B.W. StappersThe High Time Resolution Universe Pulsar Survey – I. System configuration and initial discoveries
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 409, 2, pp. 619-627 (2010)
A. Siemion, J. Von Korff, P. McMahon, E. Korpela, D. Werthimer, D. Anderson, G. Bower, J. Cobb, G. Foster, M. Lebofsky, J. van Leeuwen, W. Mallard, M. WagnerNew SETI Sky Surveys for Radio Pulses
Acta Astronautica 67, 11 - 12 (2010)
2009
S.K. Kim, L. McAfee, P.L. McMahon, K. OlukotunA Highly Scalable Restricted Boltzmann Machine FPGA Implementation
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), 31 August - 2 September 2009
2008
A. Parsons, D. Backer, H. Chen, P. Droz, T. Filiba, D. MacMahon, J. Manley, P. McMahon, A. Parsa, A. Siemion, D. Werthimer, M. WrightA Scalable Correlator Architecture Based on Modular FPGA Hardware, Reuseable Gateware, and Data Packetization
The Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 120, 873, pp. 1207-1221 (2008)