CV

Andreas Elben

I am a tenure-track scientist at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), working in the Laboratory for Theoretical and Computational Physics and affiliated with the ETHZ-PSI Quantum Computing Hub.

My research interests include quantum many-body dynamics, randomized measurements, quantum simulation, and the verification, probing, and benchmarking of intermediate-scale quantum devices.

Since 2024
Scientist (Tenure Track)
Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
Laboratory for Theoretical and Computational Physics and ETHZ-PSI Quantum Computing Hub

2021–2024
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Fellow of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
California Institute of Technology, USA
Institute for Quantum Information and Matter and Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics
Group of John Preskill

2020–2021
Postdoctoral Fellow of the Simons Foundation on Ultra-Quantum Matter
Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), Austria, and University of Innsbruck
Group of Peter Zoller

2016–2020
PhD in Physics
University of Innsbruck and IQOQI Innsbruck
Thesis: Statistical correlations of randomized measurements
Advisor: Peter Zoller

Selected fellowships, awards, and funding

• Sherman Fairchild / Walter Burke Institute Prize Fellowship, California Institute of Technology, 2021–2024.
• Leopoldina PostDoc Scholarship, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, 2021–2023.
• IQOQI Thesis Prize, 2021.

Selected publications

A complete publication list is available on the Publications page.

Selected publications:

• T. Brydges, A. Elben, P. Jurcevic, B. Vermersch, C. Maier, B. P. Lanyon, P. Zoller, R. Blatt, and C. F. Roos,
  “Probing entanglement entropy via randomized measurements,”
  Science 364, 260–263 (2019).

• A. Elben, B. Vermersch, R. van Bijnen, C. Kokail, T. Brydges, C. Maier, M. Joshi, R. Blatt, C. F. Roos, and P. Zoller,
  “Cross-Platform Verification of Intermediate Scale Quantum Devices,”
  Physical Review Letters 124, 010504 (2020).

• L. K. Joshi, A. Elben, A. Vikram, B. Vermersch, V. Galitski, and P. Zoller,
  “Probing many-body quantum chaos with quantum simulators,”
  Physical Review X 12, 011018 (2022).

• A. Elben, S. T. Flammia, H.-Y. Huang, R. Kueng, J. Preskill, B. Vermersch, and P. Zoller,
  “The randomized measurement toolbox,”
  Nature Reviews Physics 5, 9–24 (2023).

• A. Shaw, Z. Chen, J. Choi, D. K. Mark, P. Scholl, R. Finkelstein, A. Elben, S. Choi, and M. Endres,
  “Benchmarking highly entangled states on a 60-atom analog quantum simulator,”
  Nature 628, 71–77 (2024).

Teaching, mentoring, and supervision

• Scientific supervision and advising of PhD students at PSI.
• Co-supervision of PhD students at Caltech.
• Mentor for the Summer Undergraduate Research Program at Caltech.
• Tutor for Mathematics for Physicists at the University of Konstanz.
• Basic certificate in higher education didactics, Konstanz MetaTutor training.

Service

Referee for journals including Nature Physics, Physical Review X, PRX Quantum, Physical Review Letters, Quantum, Physical Review A/B/Research, and SciPost Physics.