Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Sainath Motlakunta

Position: Postdoctoral fellow (Nov 2023 - 2024), PhD / MSc student (2018-2023)
Email: smotlakunta@uwaterloo.ca
Extention: x39025
office: QNC 3202
Current Institution: IonQ

Sainath was a PhD student (2018-23) in the QITI group developing a ‘blade’ trap quantum simulator. Previously, he did his MSc thesis from the same group, focusing on analog-digital hybrid quantum simulation protocols.

Publications

7. [2024] Preserving a qubit during state-destroying operations on an adjacent qubit at a few micrometers distance

Sainath Motlakunta, Nikhil Kotibhaskar, Chung-You Shih, Anthony Vogliano, Darian McLaren, Lewis Hahn, Jingwen Zhu, Roland Hablützel, Rajibul Islam
Nature Communications 15, 6575 (2024)

6. [2024] Programmable XY-type couplings through parallel spin-dependent forces on the same trapped ion motional modes

Nikhil Kotibhaskar, Chung-You Shih, Sainath Motlakunta, Anthony Vogliano, Lewis Hahn, Yu-Ting Chen, Rajibul Islam
Physical Review Research 6, 033038 (2024)

5. [2023] Developing a Large-Scale, Programmable Trapped Ion Quantum Simulator with In Situ Mid-Circuit Measurement and Reset

Sainath Motlakunta, PhD thesis.
University of Waterloo [Thesis link]

4. [2023] Fast and high-yield fabrication of axially symmetric ion-trap needle electrodes via two step electrochemical etching

Nikhil Kotibhaskar, Noah Greenberg, Sainath Motlakunta, Chung-You Shih, Rajibul Islam
Review of Scientific Instruments 94, 033201 (2023) arXiv:2206.14784

3. [2021] Reprogrammable and high-precision holographic optical addressing of trapped ions for scalable quantum control

Chung-You Shih, Sainath Motlakunta, Nikhil Kotibhaskar, Manas Sajjan, Roland Hablützel, Rajibul Islam
npj Quantum Information 7, 57 (2021)

2. [2019] Dynamical Hamiltonian engineering of 2D rectangular lattices in a one-dimensional ion chain

F. Rajabi, S. Motlakunta, C. Shih, N. Kotibhaskar, Q. Quraishi, A. Ajoy, R. Islam
npj Quantum Information 5, 32 (2019) arXiv:1808.06124

1. [2018] Developing Theoretical and Experimental Tools for a Hybrid Quantum Simulator Based on Trapped Ions

Sainath Motlakunta, MSc thesis.
University of Waterloo [Thesis link]