Mehdi Soleimanifar

Mehdi Soleimanifar

PhD in Physics

Caltech

Biography

I am an AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar in the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech.

I am interested in the interface of quantum information, theoretical computer science, and many-body physics.

My PhD thesis:

Efficiently learning, testing, and simulating quantum many-body systems

Education

  • PhD in Physics, 2022

    MIT

  • BSc in Physics, 2016

    Sharif University, Iran

  • BSc in Electrical Engineering, 2016

    Sharif University, Iran

Publications

Certifying highly-entangled states from few single-qubit measurements

  • Contributed talk at QIP 2024

Improved approximation algorithms for bounded-degree local Hamiltonians

Entanglement spread area law in gapped ground states