| Faculty | Postdoctoral Researchers | PhD Students | Alumni | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Mitchell | Philip C. Burke | Emmanuel Bogacz | Eoin Carolan | Jonas Rigo |
| Nuala Caffrey | José Maria Cruz | Hossein Khani | Sudeshna Sen | |
| Ciarán Hickey | Brian Maloney | Anthony Kiely | Patrick Wong | |
| Steve Campbell | Ronan McElvogue | George Mihailescu | ||
| Andrew Burgess | Dara Murphy | Emma Mineralli | ||
| Amal Raj Veluthedath Nair | Eoin O'Connor | |||
Quantum and Condensed Matter Theory
Quantum mechanics is one of pillars of modern physics and the School of Physics at UCD hosts an active theory group of researchers working at the forefront of quantum science. We lead UCD's Centre for Quantum Engineering, Science, and Technology. Our interests range from the foundations of quantum mechanics to the modelling and realisation of novel quantum materials.
For more information contact the group leads: (opens in a new window)Ciarán Hickey, (opens in a new window)Nuala Caffrey, (opens in a new window)Steve Campbell, and (opens in a new window)Andrew Mitchell.
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The group works on a range of topics broadly falling under the interests of the four PIs:
2025
- Quantum work statistics across a critical point: full crossover from sudden quench to the adiabatic limit
Zhanyu Ma, Andrew K. Mitchell, and Eran Sela
Phys. Rev. Lett. (2025) - Suppressing excitations in the nonlinear Landau-Zener model
Sebastian Deffner and Steve Campbell
(opens in a new window)EPL 151, (2025) - Constructing emergent U(1) symmetries in the Γ' model
Sagar Ramchandani, Simon Trebst, and Ciarán Hickey
(opens in a new window)Phys. Rev. B 112, 054444 (2025) - Uncertain quantum critical metrology: From single- to multiparameter sensing
George Mihailescu, Steve Campbell, and Karol Gietka
(opens in a new window)Physical Review A 111, 052621 (2025) - Speeding up Quantum Annealing with Engineered Dephasing
Mykolas Sveistrys, Josias Langbehn, Raphaël Menu, Steve Campbell, Giovanna Morigi, and Christiane P Koch
(opens in a new window)Quantum 9, 1731 (2025) - Exploring Quantum Control Landscape and Solution Space Complexity through Dimensionality Reduction & Optimization Algorithms
Haftu W Fentaw, Steve Campbell, and Simon Caton
(opens in a new window)Sci. Rep. 15, 14605 (2025) - Revealing Quadrupolar Excitations with Nonlinear Spectroscopy
Yoshito Watanabe, Simon Trebst, and Ciarán Hickey
(opens in a new window)Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106703 (2025) - Stability of emergent time periodicity in a few-body interacting system
Steve Campbell, Jens Eisert and Giacomo Guarnieri
(opens in a new window)New J. Phys. 27, 023001 (2025)
2024
- Topological phases of the interacting Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model: An analytical study
E. Di Salvo, A. Moustaj, C. Xu, L. Fritz, A. K. Mitchell, C. Morais Smith, and D. Schuricht
(opens in a new window)Phys. Rev. B 110, 165145 (2024) - Exploring two-dimensional coherent spectroscopy with exact diagonalization: Spinons and confinement in one-dimensional quantum magnets
Yoshito Watanabe, Simon Trebst, and Ciarán Hickey
(opens in a new window)Phys. Rev. B 110, 134443 (2024) - Unsupervised learning of effective quantum impurity models
Jonas B. Rigo, and Andrew K. Mitchell
(opens in a new window)Phys. Rev. Research 6, 043044 (2024) - Disentangling spin excitation continua in classical and quantum magnets using two-dimensional nonlinear spectroscopy
Emily Z. Zhang, Ciarán Hickey, and Yong Baek Kim
(opens in a new window)Phys. Rev. B 110, 104415 (2024) - Noncoplanar orders and quantum disordered states in maple-leaf antiferromagnets
Martin Gembé, Lasse Gresista, Heinz-Jürgen Schmidt, Ciarán Hickey, Yasir Iqbal, and Simon Trebst
(opens in a new window)Phys. Rev. B 110, 085151 (2024) - Operator growth and spread complexity in open quantum systems
Eoin Carolan, Anthony Kiely, Steve Campbell, and Sebastian Deffner
(opens in a new window)EPL (2024) - Many-body quantum interference route to the two-channel Kondo effect: Inverse design for molecular junctions and quantum dot devices
Sudeshna Sen and Andrew K. Mitchell
(opens in a new window)Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 076501 (2024) - First Passage Times for Continuous Quantum Measurement Currents
Michael J. Kewming, Anthony Kiely, Steve Campbell, and Gabriel T. Landi
(opens in a new window)Phys. Rev. A 109, L050202 (2024) - Multiparameter critical quantum metrology with impurity probes
George Mihailescu, Abolfazl Bayat, Steve Campbell, and Andrew K. Mitchell
(opens in a new window)Quantum Sci. Technol. 9, 035033 (2024) - Universally Robust Quantum Control
Pablo M. Poggi, Gabriele De Chiara, Steve Campbell, and Anthony Kiely
(opens in a new window)Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 193801 (2024) - Nanoscale single-electron box with a floating lead for quantum sensing: Modeling and device characterization
N. Petropoulos, X. Wu, A. Sokolov, P. Giounanlis, I. Bashir, A. K. Mitchell, M. Asker, D. Leipold, R. B. Staszewski, and E. Blokhina
(opens in a new window)Appl. Phys. Lett. 124, 173503 (2024) - Fisher information rates in sequentially measured quantum systems
Eoin O'Connor, Steve Campbell, and Gabriel T. Landi
(opens in a new window)New J. Phys. 26, 033048 (2024) - One-dimensional topological channels in heterostrained bilayer graphene
Nina C. Georgoulea, Nuala M. Caffrey, and Stephen R. Power
(opens in a new window)Phys. Rev. B 109, 035403 (2024) - The role of solvent interfacial structural ordering in maintaining stable graphene dispersions
Urvesh Patil and Nuala M. Caffrey
(opens in a new window)2D Materials 11, 015017 (2024)
2023
- Candidate quantum disordered intermediate phase in the Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the maple-leaf lattice
Lasse Gresista, Ciarán Hickey, Simon Trebst, and Yasir Iqbal
(opens in a new window)Phys. Rev. B 108, L241116 (2023) - Quantum work statistics of controlled evolutions
Steve Campbell
(opens in a new window)EPL 143, 68001 (2023) - The effects of polymorphism and lithium intercalation on the hydrogen evolution reaction for the basal planes of MoS2
Rhys J. Bunting and Nuala M. Caffrey
(opens in a new window)J. Chem. Phys. 159, 144703 (2023) - Robustness of controlled Hamiltonian approaches to unitary quantum gates
Eoin Carolan, Barış Çakmak, and Steve Campbell
(opens in a new window)Phys. Rev. A 108, 022423 (2023) - Kondo effect in twisted bilayer graphene
A. S. Shankar, D. O. Oriekhov, Andrew K. Mitchell, and Lars Fritz
(opens in a new window)Phys. Rev. B 107, 245102 (2023) - DQC1 as an Open Quantum System
Jake Xuereb, Steve Campbell, John Goold, and André Xuereb
(opens in a new window)Phys. Rev. A 107, 042222 (2023) - Thermometry of strongly correlated fermionic quantum systems using impurity probes
George Mihailescu, Steve Campbell, and Andrew K. Mitchell
(opens in a new window)Phys. Rev. A 107, 042614 (2023) - Entropy of the quantum work distribution
Anthony Kiely, Eoin O'Connor, Thomás Fogarty, Gabriel T. Landi, and Steve Campbell
(opens in a new window)Phys. Rev. Research 5, L022010 (2023) - Z3 Parafermion in the double charge-Kondo model
Deepak Karki, Edouard Boulat, Winston Pouse, David Goldhaber-Gordon, Andrew K Mitchell, Christophe Mora
(opens in a new window)Phys. Rev. Lett.130, 146201 (2023) - Non-Gaussian work statistics at finite time driving
Krissia Zawadzki, Anthony Kiely, Gabriel T. Landi, and Steve Campbell
(opens in a new window)Phys. Rev. A 107, 012209 (2023) - Quantum simulation of an exotic quantum critical point in a two-site charge Kondo circuit
Winston Pouse, Lucas Peeters, Connie L. Hsueh, Ulf Gennser, Antonella Cavanna, Marc A. Kastner, Andrew K. Mitchell, and David Goldhaber-Gordon
(opens in a new window)Nature Physics 19, 492 (2023)