Manuel Pino García

M. Pino is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Nano-Lab of Universidad de Salamanca. He did his thesis on low-temperature transport in disordered materials. Then, he went to Rutgers University for a postdoctoral position in the group of Lev. B. Ioffe.  During that time, he and coworkers proposed a new phase of matter called bad metal (M. Pino, L. B. Ioffe and B. Altshuler PNAS 2016). This phase has similar properties to a glass, as a lack of ergodicity, but it is fully described from the laws of quantum mechanics. M. Pino has keept  working on this topic in the last few years, for instances he has analyzed the existance of non-ergodic quantum phases for a particle on a complex lattice (M. Pino, Physical Review Research 2020).  This type of “quantum glasses” could provide a solid theoretical background to analyze the performance of quantum annealers when dealing with difficult problems (NP-hard). M. Pino has also worked on superconducting systems with applications to quantum computing, as his proposal to build a Majorana type of qubit using arrays of Josephson junctions (M. Pino, A. Tsvelik, L. B. Ioffe PRL 2015). In this line of research, M. Pino has proposed improvements on the hardware of superconducting quantum annealers, both to reduce the noise and to achieve better qubit connectivities. As an example, he together with J. J. García-Ripoll developed a new scheme of error correction using the extra degrees of freedom provided by qubit couplers (M. Pino, J. J García-Ripoll, PRA 2020).

Currently Working at the University of Salamanca as Postdoctoral Researcher.