Professor of Physics My research is focused on quantum computation, especially near-term and online quantum computers Education Education: PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1994 Research Research Areas: Condensed Matter Physics Theoretical Physics Research Interests: We are interested in several aspects of quantum computation, especially near-term approaches that do not require the overhead of full error correction. See our group webpage for further information. Selected Publications Selected Publications: "Quantum simulation of operator spreading in the chaotic Ising model,", M. R. Geller, A. Arrasmith, Z. Holmes, B. Yan, P. J. Coles, and A. Sornborger, Physical Review E 105, 035302 (2022). "Conditionally rigorous mitigation of multiqubit measurement errors,", M. R. Geller, Physical Review Letters 127,090502 (2021). "Experimental quantum learning of a spectral decomposition,", M. R. Geller, Z. Holmes, P. J. Coles, and A. Sornborger, Physical Review Research 3, 033200 (2021). "Fusing the single-excitation subspace with C^(2^n)", M. R. Geller, Scientific Reports 11, 402 (2021). "Rigorous measurement error correction", M. R. Geller, Quantum Science and Technology 5, 03LT01 (2020). "Toward prethreshold gate-based quantum simulation of chemical dynamics: Using potential energy surfaces to simulate few-channel molecular collisions", A. T. Sornborger, P. C. Stancil, and M. R. Geller, Quantum Information Processing 17, 106 (2018). "Sampling and scrambling on a chain of superconducting qubits", M. R. Geller, Physical Review Applied 10, 024052 (2018). "Three-step implementation of any nxn unitary with a complete graph of n qubits", A. Katabarwa and M. R. Geller, Physical Review A 92, 032306 (2015). "Universal quantum simulation with prethreshold superconducting qubits: Single excitation subspace method", M. R. Geller, J. M. Martinis, A. T. Sornborger, P. C. Stancil, E. J. Pritchett, H. You, and A. Galiautdinov, Physical Review A 91, 062309 (2015). "Tunable coupler for superconducting Xmon qubits: Perturbative nonlinear model", M. R. Geller, E. Donate, Y. Chen, M. T. Fang, N. Leung, C. Neill, P. Roushan, and J. M. Martinis, Physical Review A 92, 012320 (2015). "Qubit architecture with high coherence and fast tunable coupling", Yu Chen, C. Neill, P. Roushan, N. Leung, M. Fang, R. Barends, J. Kelly, B. Campbell, Z. Chen, B. Chiaro, A. Dunsworth, E. Jeffrey, A. Megrant, J. Y. Mutus, P. J. J. O' Malley, C. M. Quintana, D. Sank, A. Vainsencher, J. Wenner, T. C. White, M. R. Geller, A. N. Cleland, and J. M. Martinis, Physical Review Letters 113, 220502 (2014). "Fast adiabatic qubit gates using only z control", J. M. Martinis and M. R. Geller, Physical Review A 90, 022307 (2014). Awards, Honors and Recognitions Of note: UGA Creative Research Medal, 2006 NSF CAREER Award, 2001-2006 Cottrell Scholars Award, 2000 Research Innovation Award, 1999 Sarah Moss Fellowship, 1998