Eleanor Crane | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

My goal is to enable quantum simulation of nature using error-corrected quantum computers made of qubits, fermions, and bosons. For the key ideas, watch this Qiskit Seminar Series episode I was invited to by the wonderful Zlatko Minev! Find my published and peer-reviewed articles on Google Scholar and the wonderful, open access (non-peer reviewed) arXiv.

Currently a Postdoc at MIT, working with Seth Lloyd. Board member MIT European Club. Organising the MIT European Career Fair. Organising the Harvard European Conference. Teaching assistant for leadership course LEAPS (MIT). Currently taking Defense, Emerging Technology, and Strategy (Harvard) and Transforming Systems (Harvard), and completed Adaptive Leadership (Harvard). Grew up in a superposition of England and France, and enjoy adventures, whatever the nature.

News

[Jan. 2025] The New Scientist wrote a great summary of our first observation of a finite-energy phase transition in one dimension.
[Jan. 2025] Our paper on the first observation of a finite-energy phase transition in 1D has appeared in Nature Physics. A big thanks to Alexander Schuckert, Or Katz and Chris Monroe!
[Jan. 2024] Creation of the Giggly Bit! You laugh, it laughs, it makes you laugh, it laughs, everyone laughs.
[Dec. 2024] Completed the Adaptive Leadership course at the Harvard Kennedy School.
[Nov. 2024] Our preprint on fermion-qubit error correction has appeared on the arXiv. Exponential advantage from O(N) to O(log N) for the quantum simulation of crystalline molecules or materials! Incredible work, Alexander Schuckert, and Michael Gullans.
[Sept. 2024] Our preprint on qubit-oscillator quantum simulation has appeared on the arXiv. Hurray! Here we propose a very promising approach to simulating fermion-boson models using native qubit-boson hardware, with the example of high-energy physics models. Thank you Nathan Wiebe and Steve Girvin. Years of hard work!
[Aug. 2024] Our preprint on qubit-oscillator quantum architecture has appeared on the arXiv.

Key Publications

Nat. Phys.

Observation of a finite-energy phase transition in a one-dimensional quantum simulator

Alexander Schuckert, Or Katz, Lei Feng, Eleanor Crane, Arinjoy De, Mohammad Hafezi, Alexey V. Gorshkov, Christopher Monroe

Nature Physics, 2025.

PDF BibTex

arXiv

Fermion-qubit fault-tolerant quantum computing

Alexander Schuckert, Eleanor Crane, Alexey V. Gorshkov, Mohammad Hafezi, Michael J. Gullans

arXiv, 2024.

PDF

arXiv

Hybrid Oscillator-Qubit Quantum Processors: Simulating Fermions, Bosons, and Gauge Fields

Eleanor Crane, Kevin C. Smith, Teague Tomesh, Alec Eickbusch, John M. Martyn, Stefan Kuhn, Lena Funcke, Michael A. DeMarco, Isaac L. Chuang, Nathan Wiebe, Alexander Schuckert, Steven M. Girvin

arXiv, 2024.

PDF

arXiv

Hybrid Oscillator-Qubit Quantum Processors: Instruction Set Architectures, Abstract Machine Models, and Applications

Yuan Liu, Shraddha Singh, Kevin C. Smith, Eleanor Crane, John M. Martyn, Alec Eickbusch, Alexander Schuckert, Richard D. Li, Jasmine Sinanan-Singh, Micheline B. Soley, Takahiro Tsunoda, Isaac L. Chuang, Nathan Wiebe, Steven M. Girvin

arXiv, 2024.

PDF

Best Paper Award

Bosonic Qiskit

Tim Stavenger, Eleanor Crane, Kevin C. Smith, Chris Kang, Nathan Wiebe, Steven M. Girvin

IEEE, 2022.

PDF

PRX Quantum

Deterministic constant-depth preparation of the AKLT state on a quantum processor using fusion measurements

Kevin C. Smith, Eleanor Crane, Nathan Wiebe, Steven M. Girvin

2023.

PDF

PRX Quantum

Finite-energy properties of the Fermi-Hubbard model in 2D on the Quantinuum quantum computer

Kevin Hemery, Khaldoon Ghanem, Eleanor Crane, ..., Henrik Dreyer, Alexander Schuckert, Ramil Nigmatullin

2023.

PDF

For more publications, go to: Google Scholar or arXiv.