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2011

Probing high-frequency noise with macroscopic resonant tunneling
T. Lanting et al.
Physical Review B PhysRevB.83.180502

Quantum annealing with manufactured spins
M. W. Johnson et al.
Nature 473, 194-198 (12 May 2011) doi:10.1038/nature10012

Importance of Explicit Vectorization for CPU and GPU Software Performance
N. Dickson et al.
Journal of Computational Physics arXiv:1004.0024

The Ising model: teaching an old problem new tricks
Z. Bian et al.
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Investigating the Performance of an Adiabatic Quantum Optimization Processor
K. Karimi et al.
Quantum Information Processing arXiv:1006.4147

Does adiabatic quantum optimization fail for NP-complete problems?
N. G. Dickson et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, Issue 5, 050502 arXiv:1010.0669

2010

A scalable readout system for a superconducting adiabatic quantum optimization system
A. J. Berkley et al.
Supercond. Sci. Technol. 23, 105014 (2010) arXiv:0905.0891

Cotunneling in pairs of coupled flux qubits
T. Lanting et al.
Phys. Rev. B 82, 060512(R) (2010) arXiv:1006.0028

Experimental Investigation of an Eight Qubit Unit Cell in a Superconducting Optimization Processor
R. Harris et al.
Phys. Rev. B 82, 024511 (2010) arXiv:1004.1628

Robust Parameter Selection for Parallel Tempering
F. Hamze et al.
International Journal of Modern Physics C, Volume 21, issue 5 (2010) arXiv:1004.2840

High-Performance Physics Simulations Using Multi-Core CPUs and GPGPUs in a Volunteer Computing Context
K. Karimi et al.
International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, doi: 10.1177/1094342010372928 arXiv:1004.0023

Experimental Demonstration of a Robust and Scalable Flux Qubit
R. Harris et al.
Physical Review B 81, 134510 (2010) arXiv:0909.4321

A scalable control system for a superconducting adiabatic quantum optimization processor
M. W. Johnson et al.
Supercond. Sci. Technol. 23, 065004 arXiv:0907.3757

2009

The Role of Single Qubit Decoherence Time in Adiabatic Quantum Computation
M. H. S. Amin et al.
Phys. Rev. A 80, 022303 (2009) arXiv:0803.1196

First Order Quantum Phase Transition in Adiabatic Quantum Computation
M. H. S. Amin et al.
Phys. Rev. A 80, 062326 (2009) arXiv:0904.1387

Landau-Zener transitions in the presence of spin environment
A. T. S. Wan et al.
Int. J. Quant. Inf. 7, 725 (2009) arXiv:cond-mat/0703085

Consistency of the Adiabatic Theorem
M. H. S. Amin et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 220401 (2009) arXiv:0810.4335

Non-Markovian incoherent quantum dynamics of a two-state system
M. H. S. Amin et al.
Phys. Rev. B 80, 214302 (2009) arXiv:0907.4797

Decoherence in adiabatic quantum computation
M. H. S. Amin et al.
Phys. Rev. A 79, 022107 (2009) arXiv:0708.0384

A Compound Josephson Junction Coupler for Flux Qubits With Minimal Crosstalk
R. Harris et al.
Phys. Rev. B 80, 052506 (2009) arXiv:0904.3784

Landau-Zener transitions in a superconducting flux qubit
J. Johansson et al.
Phys. Rev. B 80, 012507 (2009) arXiv:0807.0797

Geometrical dependence of the low-frequency noise in superconducting flux qubits
T. Lanting et al.
Phys. Rev. B 79, 060509 (2009) arXiv:0812.0378

Synchronization of Multiple Coupled rf-SQUID Flux Qubits
R. Harris et al.
New J. Phys. 11 (2009) 123022 arXiv:0903.1884

2008

Minor-Embedding in Adiabatic Quantum Computation: I. The Parameter Setting Problem
V. Choi et al.
Quantum Information Processing 7, pp193-209 (2008) arXiv:0804.4884

Macroscopic Resonant Tunneling in the Presence of Low Frequency Noise
M. H. S. Amin et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 197001 (2008) arXiv:0712.0845

On the construction of model Hamiltonians for adiabatic quantum computing and its application to finding low energy conformations of lattice protein models
A. Perdomo et al.
Physical Review A 78, 012320 (2008) arXiv:0801.3625

Effect of Local Minima on Adiabatic Quantum Optimization
M. H. S. Amin et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 130503 (2008) arXiv:0709.0528

Thermally Assisted Adiabatic Quantum Computation
M. H. S. Amin et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 060503 (2008) arXiv:cond-mat/0609332

Probing Noise in Flux Qubits via Macroscopic Resonant Tunneling
R. Harris et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 117003 (2008) arXiv:0712.0838

Realizable Hamiltonians for Universal Adiabatic Quantum Computers
J. D. Biamonte et al.
Phys. Rev. A 78, 012352 (2008) aXiv:0704.1287

2007

Sign- and Magnitude-Tunable Coupler for Superconducting Flux Qubits
R. Harris et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 177001 (2007) arXiv:cond-mat/0608253

A Characterization of global entanglement
P. J. Love et al.
Quant. Info. Proc. 6, 187 (2007) arXiv:quant-ph/0602143

2006

Rabi oscillations in systems with small anharmonicity
M. H. S. Amin et al.
Low Temp. Phys. 32, 198 (2006) arXiv:cond-mat/0407080

Four-Qubit Device with Mixed Couplings
M. Grajcar et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 047006 (2006) arXiv:cond-mat/0509557

Adiabatic quantum computation with flux qubits, first experimental results
S. H. W. van der Ploeg et al.
IEEE Trans. App. Supercond. 17, 113 (2006) arXiv:cond-mat/0702580

2005

Simulated Quantum Computation of Molecular Energies
A. Aspuru-Guzik et al.
Science 309 p. 1704, (2005) arXiv:quant-ph/0604193

Hamiltonian for coupled flux qubits
A. M. van den Brink et al.
Phys. Rev. B, 71, 064503 (2005) arXiv:cond-mat/0310425

Quantum nondemolition charge measurement of a Josephson qubit
M. H. S. Amin et al.
Phys. Rev. B 71, 140505 (2005) arXiv:cond-mat/0412286

Silent phase qubit based on d -wave Josephson junctions
M. H. S. Amin et al.
Phys. Rev. B 71, 064516 (2005) arXiv:cond-mat/0310224

Flux qubit in charge-phase regime
M.H.S. Amin et al.
Phys. Rev. B 71, 024504 (2005) arXiv:cond-mat/0311220

Mediated tunable coupling of flux qubits
A. M. van den Brink et al.
New J. Phys. 7 230 (2005) arXiv:cond-mat/0501148

Direct Josephson coupling between superconducting flux qubits
M. Grajcar et al.
Phys. Rev. B 72, (2005) 020503(R) arXiv:cond-mat/0501085

2004

Evidence for Entangled States of Two Coupled Flux Qubits
A. Izmalkov et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 037003 (2004) arXiv:cond-mat/0312332

Low-frequency measurement of the tunneling amplitude in a flux qubit
M. Grajcar et al.
Phys. Rev. B 69, 060501 (2004) arXiv:cond-mat/0303657

Quasiparticle Decoherence in d-Wave Superconducting Qubits
M. H. S. Amin et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 017001 (2004) arXiv:cond-mat/0304255

Observation of macroscopic Landau-Zener tunneling in a superconducting device
A. Izmalkov et al.
Euro. Phys. Lett. 65, 844, (2004) arXiv:cond-mat/0307506

Wigner distribution function formalism for superconductors and collisionless dynamics of the superconducting order parameter
M. H. S. Amin et al.
Low Temp. Phys. 30, 661 (2004) arXiv:cond-mat/0404401

Superconducting quantum storage and processing
M. H. S. Amin et al.
IEEE International Solid State Circuit Conference (ISSCC), Tech. Dig., p296(2004)

2003

Anomalous current-phase relation as basis for HTS qubit
S. A. Charlebois et al.
Proceedings of the European Conference on Applied Superconductivity (EUCAS 2003)

Quasiclassical Calculations of spontaneous current in restricted geometries
M. H. S. Amin et al.
"Towards the Controllable Quantum States" edited by H. Takayanagi and J. Nitta, World Scientific Publishing Co. (2003), arXiv:cond-mat/0207617

Continuous Monitoring of Rabi Oscillations in a Josephson Flux Qubit
E. Il'ichev et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 097906 (2003) arXiv:cond-mat/0303433

Theory of weak continuous measurements in a strongly driven quantum bit
A. Y. Smirnov, et al.
Phys. Rev. B 68, 134514 (2003) arXiv:cond-mat/0306004

Tunable coupling of superconducting qubits
A. Blais et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 127901 (2003) arXiv:cond-mat/0207112

Nonequilibrium quasiclassical theory for Josephson structures
M. H. S. Amin, et al.
Phys. Rev. B 68, 054505 (2003) arXiv:cond-mat/0207724

Josephson-phase qubit without tunneling
M. H. S. Amin et al.
Phys. Rev. B 67, 100508 (2003) arXiv:cond-mat/0211638

Dynamical Effects of an Unconventional Current-Phase Relation in YBCO dc SQUIDs
T. Lindstrom et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 117002 (2003) arXiv:cond-mat/0303144

2002

Low-frequency characterization of quantum tunneling in flux qubits
Y. S. Greenberg et al.
Phys. Rev. B 66, 214525 (2002) arXiv:cond-mat/0208076

d+is versus d+id time reversal symmetry breaking states in finite size systems
M. H. S. Amin et al.
Phys. Rev. B 66, 174515 (2002) arXiv:cond-mat/0205495

Multi-Terminal Superconducting Phase Qubit
M. H. S. Amin et al.
Physica C 368, 310 (2002) arXiv:cond-mat/0109382

High Temperature PI/2-SQUID
M. H. S. Amin et al.
IEEE Tran. Appl. Supercond. 12, 1877 (2002) arXiv:cond-mat/0107370

Time reversal breaking states and spontaneous current pattern in Josephson junctions of d-wave superconductors
M. H. S. Amin et al.
"New Trends in Superconductivity", edited by J.F. Annett and S. Kruchinin, Kluwer, Academic Publishers (2002).

Quasiclassical theory of spontaneous currents at surfaces and interfaces of d-Wave superconductors
M. H. S. Amin et al.
Physica B 318, 162 (2002) arXiv:cond-mat/0105486

2001

DC-SQUID based on the mesoscopic multi-terminal Josephson junction
M. H. S. Amin et al.
Physica C 372-376P1, 184 (2002); Special issue: Proceeding of the 5th European Conference on Applied Superconductivity, Copenhagen, Denmark, (Sep. 2001) arXiv:cond-mat/0109384

Mesoscopic multi-terminal Josephson structures. I. effects of nonlocal weak coupling
M. H. S. Amin et al.
Low Temp Phys. 27, 616 (2001) arXiv:cond-mat/0109333

Degenerate Ground State in a Mesoscopic YBa2Cu3O7-x Grain Boundary Josephson Junction
E. Il'ichev et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5369 (2001) arXiv:cond-mat/0102404

Mechanisms of spontaneous current generation in an inhomogeneous d-wave superconductor
M. H. S. Amin et al.
Phys. Rev. B 63, 212502 (2001) arXiv:cond-mat/0011416