Michael Gullans
Deputy Director, Associate Director for Research
National Institute of Standards and Technology & University of Maryland
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Michael Gullans is the deputy director of the NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Robust Quantum Simulation. He is also a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Physics and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland. Additionally, he is a Fellow of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science. Gullans’s research interests center on the theoretical study of quantum information systems and quantum simulators in nonperturbative and strongly-interacting limits. He received his doctorate in quantum optics and condensed matter theory from Harvard University in 2013.
Recent Publications
A fault-tolerant neutral-atom architecture for universal quantum computation
, , Nature, 649, 7, (2026)Analog Quantum Simulator of a Quantum Field Theory with Fermion-Spin Systems in Silicon
, , Physical Review D, (2026)2407.03419v1.pdfEntangling logical qubits without physical operations
, , arXiv, (2026)
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Developing a Fault Tolerant Quantum Computer
December 5, 2025
