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Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

As enthusiast PR manager for NVIDIA, he helped launch Crysis, which made every gamer crave a GeForce 8800 GTX. Ken now works on the corporate communications team, where he tells a variety of stories involving NVIDIA and its technologies to the press and general public. NVIDIA Brings GPU, HPC and AI Expertise to COVID-19 Battle. See full list on ece.duke.edu.

Prof. Brown's research interest is the control of quantum systems for both understanding the natural world and developing new technologies. His current research areas are the development of robust quantum computers and the study of molecular properties at cold and ultracold temperatures.

Appointments and Affiliations

Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Professor of Physics
Associate Professor of Chemistry

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Contact Information

Office Location: 701 W Main St, Suite 400, Durham, NC 27701
Office Phone: (919) 660-1376
Email Address: kenneth.r.brown@duke.edu
Websites:

Education

Ph.D. University of California - Berkeley, 2003
B.S. University of Puget Sound, 1998

Research Interests

Quantum error correction, quantum control, quantum computer architecture, ion trap quantum computing, and the spectroscopy of sympathetically cooled molecular ions

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Spectator Qubits Seek To Improve Control Of Four Quantum Computing Systems(Apr 16, 2018 | Pratt School Of Engineering)

Fellow. American Physical Society. 2018
Experienced Research Fellow. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. 2015
Kavli Fellow. Kavli Foundation and National Academy of Science. 2013

Courses Taught

ECE 270DL: Fields and Waves: Fundamentals of Information Propagation
ECE 270L9: Fields and Waves: Fundamentals of Information Propagation (Lab)
ECE 495: Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
ECE 590: Advanced Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
ECE 899: Special Readings in Electrical Engineering
HOUSECS 59: House Course
PHYSICS 493: Research Independent Study
PHYSICS 495: Thesis Independent Study
PHYSICS 590: Selected Topics in Theoretical Physics
PHYSICS 791: SPECIAL READINGS

In the News

Duke Is Building a World-Class Team for the Quantum Computing Race (Nov 12, 2020)
Quick Course: Summer Computing at Pratt Opens New Doors for Students (Jun 26, 2019 | Pratt School of Engineering)
Duke to Lead $15 Million Program to Create First Practical Quantum Computer (Aug 7, 2018 | Pratt School of Engineering)
Spectator Qubits Seek to Improve Control of Four Quantum Computing Systems (Apr 16, 2018 | Pratt School of Engineering)

Representative Publications

Debroy, DM; Li, M; Newman, M; Brown, KR, Stabilizer Slicing: Coherent Error Cancellations in Low-Density Parity-Check Stabilizer Codes., Physical Review Letters, vol 121 no. 25 (2018) [10.1103/physrevlett.121.250502] [abs].
Calvin, AT; Brown, KR, Spectroscopy of Molecular Ions in Coulomb Crystals., The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, vol 9 no. 19 (2018), pp. 5797-5804 [10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b01387] [abs].
Brown, NC; Brown, KR, Comparing Zeeman qubits to hyperfine qubits in the context of the
surface code: 174Yb+ and 171Yb+, Phys. Rev. A, vol 97 (2018), pp. 052301-052301 [10.1103/PhysRevA.97.052301] [abs].
Trout, CJ; Li, M; Gutiérrez, M; Wu, Y; Wang, ST; Duan, L; Brown, KR, Simulating the performance of a distance-3 surface code in a linear ion trap, New Journal of Physics, vol 20 no. 4 (2018) [10.1088/1367-2630/aab341] [abs].
Calvin, AT; Janardan, S; Condoluci, J; Rugango, R; Pretzsch, E; Shu, G; Brown, KR, Rovibronic Spectroscopy of Sympathetically Cooled 40CaH+, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol 122 no. 12 (2018), pp. 3177-3181 [10.1021/acs.jpca.7b12823] [abs].
Leung, PH; Landsman, KA; Figgatt, C; Linke, NM; Monroe, C; Brown, KR, Robust 2-Qubit Gates in a Linear Ion Crystal Using a Frequency-Modulated Driving Force., Physical Review Letters, vol 120 no. 2 (2018) [10.1103/physrevlett.120.020501] [abs].
Condoluci, J; Janardan, S; Calvin, AT; Rugango, R; Shu, G; Sherrill, CD; Brown, KR, Reassigning the CaH+ 11Σ → 21Σ vibronic transition with CaD., The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol 147 no. 21 (2017) [10.1063/1.5016556] [abs].
Linke, NM; Gutierrez, M; Landsman, KA; Figgatt, C; Debnath, S; Brown, KR; Monroe, C, Fault-tolerant quantum error detection., Science Advances, vol 3 no. 10 (2017) [10.1126/sciadv.1701074] [abs].
Li, M; Gutiérrez, M; David, SE; Hernandez, A; Brown, KR, Fault tolerance with bare ancillary qubits for a [[7,1,3]] code, Physical Review A, vol 96 no. 3 (2017) [10.1103/PhysRevA.96.032341] [abs].
Rugango, R; Calvin, AT; Janardan, S; Shu, G; Brown, KR, Vibronic Spectroscopy of Sympathetically Cooled CaH., Chemphyschem : a European Journal of Chemical Physics and Physical Chemistry, vol 17 no. 22 (2016), pp. 3764-3768 [10.1002/cphc.201600645] [abs].
Brown, KR; Kim, J; Monroe, C, Co-designing a scalable quantum computer with trapped atomic ions, Npj Quantum Information, vol 2 no. 1 (2016) [10.1038/npjqi.2016.34] [abs].

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