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Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

 

Personal Data

  • Name: Amirreza
  • Surname: Baghbanpourasl
  • Date of Birth: 29/06/1976
  • Gender: Male
  • Marital Status: Single
  • Email Address: arbasli2@gmail.com

 

 

Educational Background

 

  • MSc, Physics,  Quantum Information Science, University of Tabriz, 2003
  • BSc, Electronic Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, 2000

 

 

 

Master’s Degree Thesis

 

  • Quantum Communication

 

 

Research Activities and Projects

 

 

  • Quantum Communication, University  of Tabriz, 2002-2003

 

  • Quantum Communication Complexity, University  of Tabriz, 2002

 

  • Optical Cavity Solitons( computer simulation in Matlab and C programming languages), University of Tabriz, Research Center for Applied Physics, 2004

 

  • Implementing a PC Cluster in Linux operating system environment, University of Tabriz, Research Institute For Applied Physics and Astronomy, 2004

 

  • Quantum Dot HFETs, HeteroJunction Structures with a layer of Self-assembled Quantum Dot

 

 

 

Teaching Experiences

 

  • Teaching Assistant, Physics , Undergraduate Students, University of Tabriz
  • Electricity Laboratory, Undergraduate Students, University of Tabriz
  • IDL software, Lecture, PhD and MSc Students, University of Tabriz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research Interests

 

·        Quantum Optics, Optoelectronics, Photonics, Photonic Crystal

 

·        Nanoelectronics, Quantum Electronic, Quantum Dots

 

·        Quantum Computers

o       Quantum Gates, Quantum Memories, Implementing Quantum Algorithms

 

 

 

Studies and Experiences

  • Physics
    • Quantum Information
    • Semiconductors
    • Quantum Electronics (Laser, Optical Resonators, Propagation of Optical Beams, etc.)

 

 

  • Computer

o       Hardware

o       Software

·        Image Processing, Fuzzy Logic, Familiar with Neural Networks,…

 

 

Awards and Honors

 

  • Team Member of Iranian Team in Robocon competitions (6th place in competition), Thailand,2003
  • Winner of the preliminary Robocon competitions (it’s a robotic competition), Iran, 2003
  • Third place in international  deminer robots competition, Iran, 2002
  • Rank 343 between 200000 examinees in university entrance exam, Iran, 1994
  • Achieving to country level in high school students’ Computer Olympiad, Iran, 1993

 

 

 

 

Computer literacy

 

  • C
  • Basic
  • Visual Basic
  • Pascal
  • Delphi
  • Matlab
  • Maple
  • IDL

 

 

 

 

English Proficiency

 

 

 

TOEFL

  • Listening: 580
  • Structure: 580
  • Reading:  610

 

  • Average:  590
  • TWE:  4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some Projects and Experiences in more detail

 

 

 

  • Quantum Dot HFETs: HFETs (Heterojunction FETs ) are some kind of FETs that have been made of some crystals with different bandgap e.g.  AlGaN/GaN, AlGaAs/GaAs  (They are also called HEMT, MODFET, etc). Here we investigate properties of HFETs, which a layers of self-assembled Quantum Dots have been inserted in their structure.

References:

[1] J. Pozela, "Transport Phenomena in Two-Dimensional Structures with Quantum Dots", Acta Physica Polonica A vol. 107 (2005)

[2] V. G. Mokerov, et al, "New Quantum Dots Transistors", Nanotechnology 12, 552
(2001)

[3]  A. J. Shields, et al, "Optical control of the mobility of a MODFET with a layer of self-assembled quantum dots", Physica E 7 (2000) 479-483

 

 

  • Quantum Communication: In my MSc thesis I have investigated "Quantum Communication". The abstract of my thesis is:

“We will investigate Quantum Communication. We will introduce necessary definitions and quantities and investigate their properties.

Despite some basic definitions defined in similarity with classical communication, we will work with some issues that have quite quantum nature and not any counterpart could be found in classical world for them. Among these properties are indistinguishability of quantum states and entanglement.

Altogether, Quantum communication could be divided in three major parts:

1- Compression of quantum information that means representing outputs of a quantum source by using fewer resources which is possible by applying “typical subspaces” concept.

2- Sending classical information through quantum channel. In this kind of communication indistinguishability of quantum states reduces channel capacity. For achieving capacity of channel, we use block coding, and in decoding side we apply an observation, which does measurement simultaneously (entangled observation) on entire of block.

3- Transmitting quantum information via noisy quantum channel. Here we are interested in sending some quantum states with least deviation. For achieving channel capacity, we use extended Hilbert Spaces and should not restrict quantum states to product states.”

References:

 

[1]  T.M.Cover and J.A.Thomas, “Elements of Information Theory”, Wiley, New York, 1991

 

[2]  B.W.Schumacher, Phys Rev A ,54, 2614

 

[3]  Kraus, “States, Effects, and Operations”, (Springer Verlag)

 

[4]  Richard Jozsa ,”Fidelity for Mixed Quantum States”

 

[5]  B. W. Schumacher and M. A. Nielsen Phys Rev A, 54 ,2629 (1996)

 

[6]  E.Knill and R.Laflame, Phys Rev. A, 55, 900 (1997)

 

[7]  B. W. Schumacher, Phys Rev A, 51, 2738, 1995,” Quantum Coding”

 

[8]  C.E. Shannon, ”A mathematical Theory of Communication”

 

[9]  A. Peres and W.K. Wootters, Phy Rev Lett 66, 1119 (1991), “Optimal Detection of Quantum Information”

 

[10] B. Schumacher, M. D. Westmoreland, Phys Rev A 56 (1), 131, 1997, “Sending Classical Information Via Noisy Quantum Channel”

 

[11] A. S. Holevo, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 44(1): 269-273, 1998, “The Capacity of the Quantum Channel With General Signal States”

 

[12] P. Hausladen, R. Jozsa, B. Schumacher, M. Westmoreland, W. Wootters, Phys, Rev A, 54, 1869, 1996, “Classical Information Capacity of a Quantum Channel”

 

[13] B. Schumacher and M. Westmoreland, quant-ph/9912122, “Optimal Signal Ensembles”

 

[14] M. A. Nielsen and I. L. Chuang,”Quantum Computation and Quantum Information”, Cambridge University Press

 

[15] Preskill, Lecture Notes

 

[16] S. M. Barnett, C. R. Gilson and M. Sasaki, quant-ph/0107024, “Fidelity and the Communication of Quantum Information”

 

[17] W. Dur, “Quantum Communication Over Long Distances Using Quantum Repeaters”, Thesis

 

[18] A. Steane, quant-ph/9708022, “Quantum Computing”

 

[19] H. Barnum, M. Nielsen, B. Schumacher, quant-ph/9702049, “Information Transmission through Noisy Quantum Channel”

 

[20] A. Wehrl, Rev Mod Phys 50, 221 (1978)

 

[21] S. Lloyd, quant-ph/9604015, “The Capacity of the Noisy Quantum Channel”

 

[22] T. M. Cover and J. A. Thomas, “Elements of Information Theory”, (Whiley, New York, 1991)

 

[23] G. Bowen, Phys. Rev. A 63, 022302 (2001), “Classical information capacity of superdense coding”

 

 

  • Communication Complexity: Theory of Holevo mentions that we can't send more than N bit of information by use of N qubit. But in this investigation we see that we can reduce communication complexity in some problems by use of Entangled States. Also we see a practical scheme in which by use of a flying photon we can reduce communication complexity.

Some references:

 

[1] H. Buhrman, R. Cleve, W. V. Dam, SIAM J.Comput. 30 (2001) 1829-1841, “Quantum Entanglement and Communication Complexity”

 

[2] C. Brukner, M. Zukowski, A. Zeilinger, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 197901 (2002), “Quantum Communication Complexity Protocol with Two Entangled Qutrits

 

[3] E. F. Galvao, Phys. Rev. A 65, 012318 (2002), “A feasible Quantum Communication Complexity Protocol”

 

[4] P. Xue, Y. Huang, Y. Zhang, C. Li, G. Guo, Phys. Rev. A 64 (2001) 032304, “Reducing the communication complexity with quantum entanglement”

 

[5] R. Cleve, W. V. Dam, M Nielsen, A Tapp, Lect. Notes Comput.Sci. 1509 (1998) 61-74, “Quantum Entanglement and the Communication Complexity of the Inner Product Function”

 

[6] R. Cleve, LANL: quant-ph/9906111,” An Introduction to Quantum Complexity Theory”

 

  • Developing a PC cluster: In a 2-person group, we have implemented a PC cluster from scratch. This cluster is been used for our simulation purposes. Operating system is Linux, we use MPICH and FFTW library.

 

  • Simulation: We have written a program for simulating Cavity Solitons. We have used "split steps" method for solving Maxwell-Bloch equation. We wrote these programs at first in Matlab software, for checking the integrity of the algorithms and programs. After than we rewrote the program in C language for achieving higher speeds. In the next step we modified the program to a parallel program which was executable in the PC cluster.

 

 

  • Cavity Solitons: Here we investigate equation related to forming Cavity Solitons.

Reference:

[1] L. A. Lugiato, C. Oldano, Phys. Rev. A, 37, 3896(1988), “Stationary spatial patterns in passive optical systems: Two-level atoms”

[2] L. Spinelli, G. Tissoni, M. Brambilla, F. Prati, and L. A. Lugiato, Phys. Rev. A, 58, 2542(1998), “Spatial Solitons in semiconductor microcavities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some Electronic and Programming Projects

 

 

  • Software, Image Processing: My project for obtaining BSc degree was writing a program which was able to process images and to identify them by extracting features of that image and using that features in a Neural Network. I wrote this program in C programming language in C Borland builder environment. The program at first changes the picture to a black and white picture. Then it computes some moments of image array. Next, these moments are fed into a Neural Network.  I defended my project it with score 19/20

 

  • Software, Visual controller of a Mobile Robot: In a robotic group(Robodeminer Competitions, Amirkabir University, Iran, 2002  ) I was responsible for writing programs for controlling a Mobile Robot by computer. I wrote the program in Matlab environment. The program was consisted of two parts, Image processing and controlling the robot. In the image processing part, the program captures the frames produced by camera and by doing some operations on the picture (Edge Detection, Dilation, Subtraction, Motion detection,...) detects the robot in the field. in the second part the program sends the necessary commands to robot through Serial Port to the hardware that is attached to this port. We won the third place in the Robo Deminer Competitions with this robot

 

 

  • Electronic design, PLC (Power Line Carrier): I have designed and made a system that can send commands and information through Power Line Cables. Advantage of using this system is that there is no need to a new wiring in the building. Everyone can easily plug the Sender and Receiver into the wall socket and control any electrical device remotely or send and receive information like voice or anything else. This is done by modulating information and commands by a carrying wave.

 

  • Electronic design, Laser Transmitter and Receiver: By this device we can easily send and transmit any information to long distances. Information is carried by a Laser beam. Here information is modulated by laser beam.

 

 

  • Electronic design, Telephone Line Monitoring System: This project is a mixture of Software, Hardware (Computer Interfacing, Digital and Analog). This device is been attached to telephone line, it is capable of collecting Caller IDs, duration of calls, Time, etc. It stores information and delivers it to PC. 

 

  • Electronic design, Precession table: It is a CNC with one degree of freedom. It is designed for using in the Laser Lab of university of Azerbaijan for Z-scan purposes.

 

 

  • Software, Controller of a network of Microcontrollers and Database: It is software which has been written in Delphi programming language environment. It is consisted of two parts, one part is a controller of a network of Microcontrollers and second part is a Database that collects and manages the data that has been acquired from Microcontrollers.

 

 

 

 

MSc Course

 

Computational Physics, Advanced Quantum Mechanics I II, Quantum Field Theory, Electrodynamics, Statistical Mechanics, Lie Algebra, Special Topics (Quantum Information), Seminar (Communication Complexity), Thesis (Quantum Communication)