Research

Here’s a link to my Google scholar.

Superconducting qubits and compilation

• Characterization and compilation of hardware efficient gates
  Ashish Kakkar, Sam Marsh, Yulun Wang, Pranav Mundada, Paul Coote, Michael J. Biercuk, Yuval Baum
  [Slides]

Quantum error correction and mitigation

• Achieving computational gains with quantum error correction primitives: Generation of long-range entanglement enhanced by error detection
  Haoran Liao, Gavin S Hartnett, Ashish Kakkar, Adrian Tan, Michael Hush, Pranav S Mundada, Michael J Biercuk, Yuval Baum
  arxiv: 2411.14638

• A quantum annealing approach to the minimum distance problem of quantum codes
  Refat Ismail, Ashish Kakkar and Anatoly Dymarsky
  arxiv: 2404.17703

• Quantum Codes, Narian Lattices and CFTs at Higher Genus
  Johan Henriksson, Ashish Kakkar and Brian McPeak
  JHEP 04 (2023) 011¹

• Characterizing Error Mitigation by Symmetry Verification in QAOA
  Ashish Kakkar, Jeffery Larson, Alexey Galda and Ruslan Shaydulin
  2022 IEEE QCE, 635 (2022)

• Codes, Lattices and CFTs at Higher Genus
  Johan Henriksson, Ashish Kakkar and Brian McPeak
  JHEP 05 (2022) 159

Quantum field theory

• Spectrum of quantum KdV hierarchy in the semiclassical limit
  Anatoly Dymarsky, Ashish Kakkar, Kirill Pavlenko and Sotaro Sugishita
  JHEP 09 (2022) 169

• Information geometry and holographic correlators
  Hardik Bohra, Ashish Kakkar and Allic Sivramakrishnan
  JHEP 04 (2022) 037

• Flat Holography: Aspects of the dual field theory
  Arjun Bagchi, Rudranil Basu, Ashish Kakkar and Aditya Mehra
  JHEP 12 (2016) 147

• Galilean Yang-Mills Theory
  Arjun Bagchi, Rudranil Basu, Ashish Kakkar and Aditya Mehra
  JHEP 04 (2016) 051