Vanita Srinivasa

  • Assistant Professor, Quantum Computing Program Director
  • Phone: 401.874.2104
  • Email: vsriniv@uri.edu
  • Office Location: East Hall, Rm 318

Biography

2020-present: Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Rhode Island
2017-2020: Senior Research Scientist in Quantum Information Processing, Center for Computing Research, Sandia National Laboratories
2014-2017: Senior Research Associate, Laboratory for Physical Sciences/University of Maryland
2012-2014: Postdoctoral Scholar, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland/NIST

Research

  • Quantum information processing theory for semiconductor systems
  • Spin-photon entanglement and spin-based circuit quantum electrodynamics
  • Theory of electron-electron, electron-phonon, and electron-photon interactions in semiconductor and hybrid quantum systems

Education

  • Ph.D. in Physics, University of Pittsburgh, 2012
  • M.S. in Physics, University of Pittsburgh, 2007
  • B.S. in Engineering Physics (with minor in Chemistry), University of Pittsburgh, 2006

Selected Publications

Srinivasa, J. M. Taylor, and J. R. Petta, “Cavity-mediated entanglement of parametrically driven spin qubits via sidebands,” PRX Quantum5, 020339 (2024).

P. Harvey-Collard, N. T. Jacobson, C. Bureau-Oxton, R. M. Jock, V. Srinivasa, A. M. Mounce, D. R. Ward, J. M. Anderson, R. P. Manginell, J. R. Wendt, T. Pluym, M. P. Lilly, D. R. Luhman, M. Pioro-Ladrière, and M. S. Carroll, “Spin-Orbit Interactions for Singlet-Triplet Qubits in Silicon,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 217702 (2019).

R. M. Jock, N. T. Jacobson, P. Harvey-Collard, A. M. Mounce, V. Srinivasa, D. R. Ward, J. Anderson, R. Manginell, J. R. Wendt, M. Rudolph, T. Pluym, J. K. Gamble, A. D. Baczewski, W. M. Witzel, and M. S. Carroll, “A silicon metal-oxide-semiconductor electron spin-orbit qubit,” Nat. Commun. 9, 1768 (2018).

V. Srinivasa, J. M. Taylor, and Charles Tahan, “Entangling distant resonant exchange qubits via circuit quantum electrodynamics,” Phys. Rev. B 94, 205421 (2016).

V. Srinivasa and J. M. Taylor, “Capacitively coupled singlet-triplet qubits in the double charge resonant regime,” Phys. Rev. B 92, 235301 (2015).

V. Srinivasa, H. Xu, and J. M. Taylor, “Tunable Spin-Qubit Coupling Mediated by a Multielectron Quantum Dot,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 226803 (2015).

J. M. Taylor, V. Srinivasa, and J. Medford, “Electrically Protected Resonant Exchange Qubits in Triple Quantum Dots,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 050502 (2013).

V. Srinivasa, K. C. Nowack, M. Shafiei, L. M. K. Vandersypen, and J. M. Taylor, “Simultaneous Spin-Charge Relaxation in Double Quantum Dots,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 196803 (2013).

V. Srinivasa and J. Levy, “Tailoring effective exchange interactions via domain walls in coupled Heisenberg rings,” Phys. Rev. B 80, 024414 (2009).

V. Srinivasa, J. Levy, and C. S. Hellberg, “Flying spin qubits: A method for encoding and transporting qubits within a dimerized Heisenberg spin-1/2 chain,” Phys. Rev. B 76, 094411 (2007).