Alireza Shabani

 

Educational Background

I received my B.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2002. Then I joined to Prof. Lidar group, received my Master's degree in Physics from University of Toronto in 2003, and PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California in 2009.

Contact Information

Princeton University,

Chemistry Department,

Frick Lab, Room 315,

Princeton, NJ 08544


E-mail: ashabani at princeton.edu

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Rabitz Group, Princeton University

 Research Interests

   Theory of Open Quantum Systems,  Quantum Control / Error Correction,  and recently Quantum Biology

 Publications

  1. •         "Compressed Quantum Process Tomography", A. Shabani, R. L. Kosut, and H. Rabitz, arXiv:0910.5498 (2009).                                    

  2. •          "Maps for general open quantum systems and a theory of linear quantum error correction", A. Shabani and D. A. Lidar, Phys. Rev. A 80, 012309 (2009).

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  4. •          Invited Book Review: A. Shabani, “Introduction to Quantum Control and Dynamics” by Domenico D'Alessandro, Automatica 45, 847 (2009).

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  7. •          " Quantum Feedback Control: How to use Verification Theorems and Viscosity Solutions to Find Optimal Protocols", K. Jacobs and A. Shabani, Contemp. Phys. 49, 435 (2008).

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  9. •         " Vanishing quantum discord is necessary and sufficient for completely positive maps", A. Shabani and D. A. Lidar, Phys. Rev. Lett 101, 230403 (2008). 

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  12. •          "Locally Optimal Control of Quantum Systems With Strong Feedback", A. Shabani and K. Jacobs, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 230403 (2008).

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  15. •          "Robust Quantum Error Correction via Convex Optimization", R. Kosut, A. Shabani and D. A. Lidar,  Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 020502 (2008).

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  18. •          "Correlated errors can lead to better performance of quantum codes", A. Shabani, Phys. Rev. A 77, 022323 (2008).

           (Selected article for the March, 2008 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.)

  1.          (Selected article for the March, 2008 issue of Virtual Journal of Quantum Information.)

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  1. •         "Conditions for Strictly Purity-Decreasing Quantum Markovian Dynamics", with D. A. Lidar, A. Shabani and R. Alicki, Chemical Physics 322, 82 (2006).

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  4. •         "Theory of Initialization-Free Decoherence-Free Subspaces and Subsystems", A. Shabani and D. A. Lidar, Phys. Rev. A 72, 042303 (2005).

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  7. •         "Completely Positive Post-Markovian Master Equation via a Measurement Approach", A. Shabani and D. A. Lidar, Phys. Rev. A 71, 020101 (2005).