Eleanor Crane

Assistant Professor (Quantum Computing), King’s Quantum at King’s College London
Fellow (Quantum Policy), Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

My goal is to enable quantum simulation of nature using error-corrected quantum computers made of qubits, fermions, and bosons (see Qiskit Seminar Series). Find my published and peer-reviewed articles on Google Scholar and the wonderful, open access (non-peer reviewed) arXiv.

I research and teach quantum policy for Defense, Emerging Technology, and Strategy with Eric Rosenbach at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Just finished my postdoc at MIT, working with Seth Lloyd. I was a board member of the MIT European Club. Organised the MIT European Career Fair. Organised the Harvard European Conference. Was a teaching assistant for leadership course LEAPS (MIT). Completed Transforming Systems (Harvard), and Adaptive Leadership (Harvard). Grew up in a superposition of England and France, and enjoy adventures, whatever the nature.

News

• [Jun. 2025] The Economist just wrote a great article about our work: Who is ahead in the global tech race? and it was linked in Politico.
• [Jun. 2025] Our Critical and Emerging Technologies Index has just been published by the Harvard Kennedy School.
• [Jun. 2025] We organised an 80 person three day adventure event in the South of France… to get married!
  
• [Apr. 2025] Our preprint about compiler optimization for Hamiltonian simulation using partial Trotterization has appeared on the arXiv.
• [Mar. 2025] Our preprint on the phases of the Z2 Higgs lattice gauge theory has appeared on the arXiv.
• [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!

Key Publications

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