Email: jmtaylor@mit.edu Phone: 617.253.4818 Address: MIT Department of Physics Building 6C-411 Cambridge, MA 02139 Related Links: Pappalardo Fellows Biographies Area of Physics: Condensed Matter Theory

Research Interests

Jake Taylor's research focuses around mesoscopic systems, large scale devices for quantum information protocols, and fundamental phenomon involving the interface between mesoscopic systems and quantum optics.

Mesoscopic devices such as semiconductor quantum dots and superconducting islands provide intriguing physical systems for implementing ideas from quantum information science. These devices can be engineered with specific, controllable, quantum mechanical behaviors, allowing them to be used to investigate the quantum properties of mesoscale systems. However, such systems are strongly coupled to 
their environment. One area of Taylor's research is in understanding this coupling and learning how to control quantum systems in the solid-state. These problems present a major challenge for condensed- matter physics. Furthermore, integrating such quantum systems into a larger-scale device requires a systems level approach to design. Taylor is currently investigating the behavior of larger-scale networks of quantum bits with the aim of protecting complex quantum states from noise and errors.

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Biographical Sketch

Taylor finished his Ph.D., advised by Mikhail Lukin, at Harvard University in the Department of Physics. While there, he worked on spin interactions in semiconductor quantum dots (in collaboration with Charles Marcus's group), quantum communication protocols, and quantum computing in solid-state devices. Before his graduate work, 
he spent 2001 as a Luce Scholar at the University of Tokyo, working with Junichiro Makino. He graduated with an A.B. in Astronomy and Astrophysics and Physics from Harvard in 2000, supervised by Jonathan Grindlay. Taylor is a co-recipient of the 2006 Newcomb Cleveland prize from the  American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Selected Publications

"Fault-tolerant Architecture for Quantum Computation Using Electrically Controlled Semiconductor Spins," J. M. Taylor, H.-A. Engel, W. Dür, P. Zoller, A. Yacoby, C. M. Marcus, and M. D. Lukin, Nature Physics 1, 177 (2005).

"Coherent Manipulation of Coupled Electron Spins in Semiconductor Quantum Dots,''
J. R. Petta, A. C. Johnson, J. M. Taylor, E. A. Laird, A. Yacoby, M. D. Lukin, C. M. Marcus, M. P. Hanson, and A. C. Gossard, Science 309, 2180 (2005).

"Solid-state Circuit for Spin Entanglement Generation and Purification," J. M. Taylor, W. Dür, P. Zoller, A. Yacoby, C. M. Marcus, and M. D. Lukin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 23680 (2005).

"Long-Lived Memory for Mesoscopic Quantum Bits," J. M. Taylor, C. M. Marcus, and M. D. Lukin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 206803 (2003).

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