Curriculum Vitæ1 ZANARDI, Paolo, Italian and USA Citizenship. Education : 1992{1995 PhD in Physics: Universit`adi Roma \Tor Vergata" Linearization schemes for strongly correlated systems of lattice fermions . Supervisor: Prof. Mario Rasetti (Politecnico of Torino) 1986{1992 M.D. in Physics Universit`adegli Studi di Modena: Dynamical aspects of the atom-surface interaction . Advisor: C. Calandra (Final mark: 110/110 cum laude). Positions occupied: 02/01/13{05/31/13 Visiting Research Professor at the National University of Singa- pore, Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore 12/15/11| Full Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern Califor- nia, Los Angeles (CA) USA 01/01/07{12/15/12 Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of South- ern California, Los Angeles (CA) USA 07/08/05 {07/09/05 JSPS Visiting Scientist at the Kinki University, Osaka (Japan) 01/11/04 { 30/11/04 Appointment as Visiting Professor at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo ON (Canada) 01/10/04 { 31/10/04 Appointment as Visiting Scientist (CMI fellow) at the Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge MA (USA). 1/03 { 12/03 Appointment as Visiting Scientist (CMI fellow) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge MA (USA). [3/03 { 6/03, 10/03{ 12/03] 1/01 { present ISI Foundation, Scientific consultant of the Quantum Information The- ory group Scientific Coordinator of the European FET Project TOPQIP 1Last revision: 10/17/17 02{ 04 High-school professorship in Mathematics [Istituto Tecnico G. Einaudi, Correg- gio (RE)] On leave (\congedo per ragioni di studio e ricerca") up to 2004 when I resigned. 1/97{12/00 ISI Foundation, Torino, Postdoctoral fellowship on Quantum Computation 6/96{12/96 INFM (Sect. G) Pre-postdoctoral fellowship on Statistical mechanics of strongly corelated fermion systems 1/96{5/96 ISI Foundation , Torino, Research fellowship Quantum Computation 10/92{10/95 PhD fellowship at the Universit`adi Roma \Tor Vergata". 5/92{9/92 INFM grant for scientific collaboration at the Universit`adi Modena. Research Topics • Theoretical condensed matter • Quantum Information Processing (QIP) • Decoherence control • Physical Implementation of QIP devices • Geometric and topological QIP • Quantum entanglement in interacting spin systems and systems of indistinguishable particles • Quantum Phase Transitions Teaching Experience: Courses • Course on Dynamical Algebras and strongly correlated fermion systems, Graduate School, Universit`adi Modena (1996) • Course on Introduction to quantum computation and information, Graduate School, Politecnico di Torino (1998) • Course on Quantum information processing, Graduate School, Universit`adel Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria (2000) • Course on Introduction to quantum computation and information Graduate School Universit`adi Perugia (2001) • Course on, Quantum information protection, Scuola nazionale di Fisica della Ma- teria, Villa Gualino, Torino (2002) • Course on Quantum computation and information Graduate School Politecnico di Torino (2005) • I won a high-school professorship in Mathematics in the 2000 National competition (\Concorso" for the Region Emilia Romagna). On leave (\congedo per ragioni di studio e ricerca") up to 2004 when I resigned. • USC, Fall 2007: Advanced Electricity and Magnetism (Phys 508b) • USC, Spring 2008: Fundamentals of Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism (Phys 152L) • USC, Fall 2008, Electricity and Magnetism (Phys 408a) • USC, Spring 2009, Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, (Phys 316) • USC, Fall 2009, Special Topics in Theoretical Physics (Phys 720) • USC, Spring 2010, 2011 Introduction to Quantum mechanics (Phys 438a) • USC, Fall 2010, Introduction to Quantum mechanics (Phys 438b) • USC, Spring 2011, Introduction to Quantum mechanics (Phys 438a) • USC, Fall 2011, Introduction to Quantum mechanics (Phys 438b) • USC, Spring 2012, Introduction to Quantum mechanics (Phys 438a) • Summer 2012 Universit`adi Modena, Graduate School, Quantum information and the foundation of statistical mechanics, Modena, Italy • USC, Fall 2012, Introduction to Quantum mechanics (Phys 438b) • USC, Fall 2013 Quantum Information and Many-Body Physics (Phys 660) • USC, Spring 2014/15 Quantum mechanics (Phys 558a) • USC, Fall 2014/15/16 Quantum mechanics (Phys 558b) • USC, Spring 2016 Quantum information and many-bosy physics (Phys 660) PhD Students • Georgio Styliaris: start date May 2016{ • • Jeff Marshall: start date May 2014{graduation • • Siddharta Santra (USC): start date Fall 2010. Graduation May 2014 • Damian Abasto (USC): start date spring 2007. Graduation December 2011 • Noah Tobias Jacobson (USC): start date spring 2007. Graduation August 2011 • Paolo Solinas, Universit`adi Genova, PhD Completed in 2002, Thesis Title, Ge- ometric quantum computation and its implementations in semiconductor devices, (Internal advisor: Prof. N. Zangh`ı) • Paolo Giorda, Politecnico di Torino, Thesis Title, Quantum entanglement and con- trol in bosonic systems, PhD completed in 2003 (Internal advisor: Dr. V. Penna) • Alioscia Hamma, Universit`adi Federico II di Napoli, PhD to be completed in 2004, Thesis Title, Topological order and quantum information processing, (Internal advisor: Prof. G. Marmo) Fund Raising Activity Ever since my early PostDoc years I got strongly involved in the Fund Raising activity of the ISI Foundation, at the national as well european level. Since I got at USC (January 2007) I got awarded as Principal Investigator of three NSF grants and I am a co-PI of MURI proposal • I strongly contributed to write down, especially in the Quantum Information as- pects of the of the Advanced Research project (PRA) on Solid state implementation of quantum information processing devices, National Institute of Physics of Matter (INFM). The national coordinator was Prof Mario Rasetti (Politecnico di Torino) and several national nodes were involved. • As above with the project SQID, Semiconductor-based implementation of quantum information processing devices. [1999-2001, IST-1999-11311, Future and Emerging Technologies (FET), 1,6 M EUR ]. This Project was Coordinated for the ISI by Prof. Fausto Rossi (Politecnico di Torino) and gathered nine different european nodes in a research consortium. • I was the European Coordinator of the TOPQIP project (540 K Eur) on Topological quantum information processing [2002-2005, IST-2001-39215, Future and Emerging Technologies (FET), 540 K EUR ]. The consortium comprised other for nodes [MPQ Garching, Imperial College, DAMTP Cambridge, SNS Pisa] • Principal Investigator NSF Award 0803304 (co-PI Prof. D. Lidar): Geometric Quantum Information Processing in Open Systems, $ 150 K, start date 09/01/08, duration 3 years • Principal Investigator NSF Award DMR-0804914 (co-PI Prof. S. Haas): Infor- mation Geometry of Quantum Phase Transitions, $ 390 K, start date 09/01/08, duration 3 years. • Principal Investigator NSF Award 0969969, (co-PI Prof. D. Lidar): Differential Ge- ometric Methods for Quantum Information Processing , 490K, start date 09/01/10, duration 3 years • Co-PI of the MURI Project Control of Quantum Systems: Theory and Experi- ments (PI Daniel Lidar) Grant Number: W911NF-11-1-0268 [teams involved:USC, Iowa State University University of Massachusetts, Boston University of Califor- nia, Riverside Princeton University Griffith University (Australia)] Start date: 09/01/11 -End Date 09/01/16 • Co-PI of the Add-On to the MURI Project Control of Quantum Systems: Theory and Experiments (PI Daniel Lidar) Grant Number: W911NF-11-1-0268, $ 500 K. Start date: 02/01/17 -End Date 07/31/17 Publications 1) P. Zanardi, C. Calandra, Charge and energy exchange between a metal and a two- level particle in a metastable state, Surf. Sci. 290, 141 (1993). 2) M. Rasetti, P. Zanardi, The 2-d extend Hubbard model: a supersymmetric chain- cluster approach, Intl. J. Mod. Phys. B 9, 1375 (1995). 3) A. Danani and P. Zanardi, The auxiliary fermion linearized t-J model, Mod. Phys. Lett. B 9, 1873 (1995). 4) P. Zanardi, Auxiliary Fermion Linearization, J. Phys. A 29, 541 (1996) 5) P. Zanardi, Full diagonalization of the EKS model on small rings, Nuovo Cimento D (1996). 6) P. Zanardi, M. Rasetti, Noiseless Quantum Codes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 3306 (1997) LANL E-print Archive: quant-ph/9705044 7) P. Zanardi, Dissipation and Decoherence in a Quantum Register, Phys. Rev. A 57, 3276 (1998) LANL E-print Archive: quant-ph/9705045 8) P. Zanardi, Dissipative dynamics in a quantum register, Phys. Rev. A 56, 4445 (1997) LANL E-print Archive: quant-ph/9708042 9) P. Zanardi, M. Rasetti, Error Avoiding Quantum Codes, Mod. Phys. Lett. B, 25, 1085 (1997) LANL E-print Archive: quant-ph/9710041 10) P. Zanardi, Quantum Cloning in d dimensions, Phys. Rev. A 58, 3484 (1998) LANL E-print Archive: quant-ph/9804011 11) P. Zanardi, F. Rossi, Quantum Information in Semiconductors: Noiseless Encoding in a Quantum-Dot Array, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81 4572 (1998) LANL E-print Archive: quant-ph/9804016 12) P. Zanardi, F. Rossi, Subdecoherent Information Encoding in a Quantum-Dot Ar- ray, Phys. Rev. B 59 8170 (1999) LANL E-print Archive: quant-ph/9808036 13) P. Zanardi, Symmetrizing Evolutions, Phys. Lett. A 258 (1999) 77 LANL E-print Archive: quant-ph/9809064 14) P. Zanardi, Computation on a Noiseless Quantum Code and Symmetrization, Phys. Rev. A 60 (1999) R729 LANL E-print Archive: quant-ph/9901047 15) M. Rasetti, P. Zanardi, A Possible Strategy to Defeat Decoherence in Quantum Computation: the Role of Symmetries, Dynamical Algebras, and All That Fortschr.