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The average density of defects scales with the quench rate following a universal power-law predicted by the Kibble- Zurek mechanism.<\/p><p>Physics beyond the Kibble-Zurek mechanism can be probed by characterizing the full counting statistics of topological defects and provides useful heuristics for adiabatic quantum computation. Its\u00a0 study\u00a0 can be used to benchmark the performance of a quantum processor, as we show by\u00a0 analyzing the experimental data from a D-Wave quantum annealer.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Prof. del Campo received his PhD from the University of Basque Country in 2008. His first postdoctoral research position was at Imperial College London and Ulm University. In 2011, he was awarded a Distinguished J. Robert Oppenheimer Fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory. In 2014, he became an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, receiving tenure in 2018. As of Jan 2019, he is an Ikerbasque full research professor at the Donostia International Physics Center, Spain. His research in theoretical condensed matter physics focuses on nonequilibrium phenomena and their control, exploring applications in quantum science and technology. He has co-pioneered protocols known as Shorcuts to Adiabaticity, generalized the Kibble-Zurek Mechanism and contributed to the development of Quantum Speed Limits.<\/p><\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7279,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_image_focal_point":[],"show_featured_caption":false,"ulux_newsletter_groups":"","uluxPostTitle":"","uluxPrePostTitle":"","_trash_the_other_posts":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"event_start_date":"2020-01-06 09:00:00","event_end_date":"2020-01-06 10:00:00","event_speaker_name":"Talk by Prof. Adolfo Del Campo invited by Physics and Materials Science Department ","event_speaker_link":"","event_is_online":false,"event_location":"Campus Limpertsberg \r\n162a, avenue de la Fa\u00efencerie\r\nL-1511 Luxembourg\r\nB\u00e2timent des Sciences \u2013 room BS 1.03","event_street":"","event_location_link":"","event_zip_code":"","event_city":"","event_country":"LU"},"events-topic":[315],"events-type":[],"organisation":[80],"authorship":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.3) - 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