Sevag Gharibian
Algorithms & Complexity, Quantum Computation
Junior Professor, Universität Paderborn, Germany
Assistant Professor (on leave), Virginia Commonwealth U., USA
Welcome to our research group's webpage! For a brief public audience introduction to quantum computation, click the Introduction link above. For information on our lab members and their research interests, click the People link above.
Algorithms & Complexity, Quantum Computation
Junior Professor, Universität Paderborn, Germany
Assistant Professor (on leave), Virginia Commonwealth U., USA
Welcome to our research group's webpage! For a brief public audience introduction to quantum computation, click the Introduction link above. For information on our lab members and their research interests, click the People link above.
Announcements
- October 18, 2018New preprint posted to the arXiv:
- A. Broadbent, S. Gharibian, H.S.-Zhou. Towards quantum one-time memories from stateless hardware. Available at quant-ph/18.10.05226, 2018.
- October 8, 2018Looking forward to a new semester of interdisciplinary quantum seminars at Uni Paderborn. All interested are welcome to attend.
- August 30, 2018New Master's and Ph.D. student positions are available, see our Openings.
- (Updated July 16, 2018) July 11, 2018Our following papers have been accepted to AQIS 2018:
- (Plenary talk, top 7% of submissions) On efficiently solvable cases of Quantum k-SAT.
- (Plenary talk, top 7% of submissions) Quantum generalizations of the polynomial hierarchy with applications to QMA(2).
- Oracle complexity classes and local measurements on physical Hamiltonians (to be posted to arXiv, joint work with Stephen Piddock and Justin Yirka).
- June 13, 2018Our following papers have been accepted to MFCS 2018:
- June 12, 2018Update posted to preprint below. Changes: Added formal runtime analysis, and explicit familes of hypergraphs on which our parameterized algorithm exponentially outperforms brute force:
- M. Aldi, N. de Beaudrap, S. Gharibian, S. Saeedi. On efficiently solvable cases of Quantum k-SAT. Available at quant-ph/1712.09617, 2017.
- May 29, 2018New preprint posted to the arXiv:
- S. Gharibian, M. Santha, J. Sikora, A. Sundaram and J. Yirka. Quantum generalizations of the polynomial hierarchy with applications to QMA(2). Available at quant-ph/1805.11139, 2018.
- April 10, 2018The list of accepted papers for CCC 2018 is now available.
- March 16, 2018A new mailing list has been created to discuss Theoretical CS questions (broadly speaking), open to all Uni Paderborn faculty, graduate and undergraduate students (in any discipline).
- February 8, 2018A full version of the article Ground state connectivity of local Hamiltonians (joint work with Jamie Sikora) is to appear in ACM Transactions on Computation Theory.
- December 28, 2017New preprint posted to the arXiv:
- M. Aldi, N. de Beaudrap, S. Gharibian, S. Saeedi. On efficiently solvable cases of Quantum k-SAT. Available at quant-ph/1712.09617, 2017.
- October 24, 2017Thanks to all those who attended and/or helped make VCU CS Day 2017 a success!
- August 21, 2017The NSF U.S. student travel support link for QIP 2018 is now up.
- August 17, 2017Dr. Gharibian and QIP 2018 thank NSF for grant CCF-1745134, which will be used to help defray travel costs for U.S.-based students and postdocs attending QIP 2018. A link to apply for this travel funding should hopefully be up soon on the QIP 2018 website.
- June 19, 2017Justin Yirka, alumni undergraduate research assistant with the VCU Quantum Computing Lab, is spending the summer as a research intern with the QuICS quantum computing group at the University of Maryland, College Park.
- May 5, 2017Two announcements:
- (a) S. Gharibian and J. Yirka. The complexity of estimating local physical quantities. Accepted to the Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC), 2017. Presented as poster by Justin Yirka at QIP 2017. Available at quant-ph/1606.05626, 2016.
- (b) Dr. Gharibian has been awarded the VCU Engineering Undergraduate Research Opportunities Faculty Mentor Award. Thank you to undergraduate research assistant Justin Yirka for the nomination!
- February 11, 2017Dr. Gharibian has been awarded the Student Choice Award for VCU Computer Science Faculty of the Year, 2016-2017. Thank you to the VCU Engineering Student Council and students at VCU!
- January 20, 2017Justin Yirka, former undergraduate student in the quantum computing lab, in Seattle for QIP 2017 to present a research poster on the work he co-authored!
- January 17, 2017Dr. Gharibian has been awarded a VCU CS Department 2017 Teaching Excellence Award.