Kenneth Brown, Ph.D.

About

Prof. Brown's research interest is the control of quantum systems for both understanding the natural world and developing new technologies. His current research areas are the development of robust quantum computers and the study of molecular properties at cold and ultracold temperatures.

Education

• B.S. University of Puget Sound, 1998
• Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 2003
• Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology 2007 - 2013 (2007 - 2013) Georgia Institute of Technology
• Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology 2013 - 2017 (2013 - 2017) Georgia Institute of Technology

Selected publications

• Miao Q, Wang T, Brown KR, Barthel T, Cetina M. Probing entanglement scaling across a quantum phase transition on a quantum computer. Nature Communications. 2026 Jul 27;
• Kang M, Zhang Y, Brown KR, Barthel T. Non-Gaussian phase transition and cascade of instabilities in the dissipative quantum Rabi model. Physical Review A. 2026 Jun 11;113(6).
• Patel S, Sardar D, Saraladevi J, Tomza M, Brown KR. Charge Exchange Dynamics in Cold Collisions of ⁴⁰CaH⁺ and ³⁹K. The journal of physical chemistry letters. 2026 Jun;17(24):6574u20139.
• Khitrin D, Brown KR, Anand A. Unbiased observable estimation with approximate channels in fault-tolerant quantum computation. Quantum Science and Technology. 2026 Mar 1;11(1).
• Patel S, Sardar D, Saraladevi J, Tomza M, Brown KR. Charge Exchange Dynamics in Cold Collisions of $^{40}$CaH$^+$ and $^{39}$K. 2026.
• Campos JA, Brown KR. Clifford Deformed Compass Codes. Quantum. 2026 Jan 1;10.
• Anand A, Brown KR. Leveraging commuting groups for an efficient variational Hamiltonian ansatz. Quantum Science and Technology. 2025 Dec 1;10(4).
• Takou E, Brown KR. Estimating decoding graphs and hypergraphs of memory quantum error-correction experiments. Physical Review A. 2025 Nov 7;112(5):052414-052414u20139.
• Pato B, Vanlerberghe J, Brown KR. Hyper-optimized Quantum Lego Contraction Schedules. 2025.
• Anand A, Brown KR. Stabilizer configuration interaction: Finding molecular subspaces with error detection properties. Physical Review A. 2025 Sep 10;112(3):01u201312.