Namit Anand

I’m a Research Scientist in the Quantum team at HPE Labs. My work lies at the intersection of quantum information theory, many-body physics, and classical simulation techniques.

From 2022-2025, I was a Staff Scientist at the NASA Quantum AI Lab (QuAIL) and KBR. In Summer 2022, I received my PhD in Physics from USC under the (wonderful) supervision of Paolo Zanardi and Aaron Lauda.

I serve on the Editorial Board for the IOP journal Quantum Science and Technology.

On the CS side, my academic genealogy is: Alan Turing => … => Aaron Lauda => Namit Anand.

news

May 18, 2026	I’m co-organizing Quantum San Diego at UCSD from May 18-19. Come join us for some excellent talks and discussions!
May 12, 2026	I’ll be giving a talk about our qudit designs paper at the Stanford QIQC seminar.
Apr 17, 2026	I’ll be in Aspen this Fall for the program on Advances in Quantum Simulation from Quarks to Chemistry and then at KITP for AI for Quantum Matter.

selected publications

How to Build a Quantum Supercomputer: Scaling from Hundreds to Millions of Qubits

Masoud Mohseni, Artur Scherer, K. Grace Johnson, Oded Wertheim, and 47 more authors

2026
Qudit Designs and Where to Find Them

Namit Anand, Jeffrey Marshall, Jason Saied, Eleanor Rieffel, and 1 more author

2026

Schrödinger cat states of a nuclear spin qudit in silicon

Xi Yu, Benjamin Wilhelm, Danielle Holmes, Arjen Vaartjes, and 16 more authors

Nature Physics, Jan 2025

DOI arXiv Bib PDF

@article{Yu2025,
  title = {Schr\"{o}dinger cat states of a nuclear spin qudit in silicon},
  volume = {21},
  issn = {1745-2481},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41567-024-02745-0},
  doi = {10.1038/s41567-024-02745-0},
  number = {3},
  journal = {Nature Physics},
  publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},
  author = {Yu, Xi and Wilhelm, Benjamin and Holmes, Danielle and Vaartjes, Arjen and Schwienbacher, Daniel and Nurizzo, Martin and Kringhøj, Anders and Blankenstein, Mark R. van and Jakob, Alexander M. and Gupta, Pragati and Hudson, Fay E. and Itoh, Kohei M. and Murray, Riley J. and Blume-Kohout, Robin and Ladd, Thaddeus D. and Anand, Namit and Dzurak, Andrew S. and Sanders, Barry C. and Jamieson, David N. and Morello, Andrea},
  year = {2025},
  month = jan,
  pages = {362–367},
  dimensions = {true}
}

Dual-unitary shadow tomography

Ahmed A. Akhtar, Namit Anand, Jeffrey Marshall, and Yi-Zhuang You

Quantum, Jul 2025

DOI Bib

@article{Akhtar2025dualunitaryshadow,
  doi = {10.22331/q-2025-07-29-1816},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2025-07-29-1816},
  title = {Dual-unitary shadow tomography},
  author = {Akhtar, Ahmed A. and Anand, Namit and Marshall, Jeffrey and You, Yi-Zhuang},
  journal = {{Quantum}},
  issn = {2521-327X},
  publisher = {{Verein zur F{\"{o}}rderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften}},
  volume = {9},
  pages = {1816},
  month = jul,
  year = {2025},
}

Information Scrambling over Bipartitions: Equilibration, Entropy Production, and Typicality

Georgios Styliaris, Namit Anand, and Paolo Zanardi

Phys. Rev. Lett., Jan 2021

DOI arXiv Bib HTML PDF

@article{PhysRevLett.126.030601,
  title = {Information Scrambling over Bipartitions: Equilibration, Entropy Production, and Typicality},
  author = {Styliaris, Georgios and Anand, Namit and Zanardi, Paolo},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. Lett.},
  volume = {126},
  issue = {3},
  pages = {030601},
  numpages = {8},
  year = {2021},
  month = jan,
  publisher = {American Physical Society},
  doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.030601},
  dimensions = {true}
}