Nicolas P. D. Sawaya

@NicolasSawaya

Computational materials/chemistry and quantum algorithms. Azulene Labs.

San Francisco nicolassawaya.com Joined February 2011

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Nicolas P. D. Sawaya @NicolasSawaya Aug 28, 2025

I’m grateful to @bakarlabs_uc for the opportunity to share what we’re building at @AzuleneLabs and to be part of such a vibrant community.

#BakarLabs #UCBerkeley #DeepTech #Chemistry #Biochem #Biotech #PhysicsAI #AIforScience #MaterialsDiscovery #MolecularDiscovery

Nicolas P. D. Sawaya @NicolasSawaya Mar 8, 2025

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Seth Bannon Verified account @sethbannon Mar 4, 2025

NIH grants frozen. Discoveries delayed. PhDs pushed out. Academia getting gutted.

Innovation must continue. There’s never been a better time for scientists to build startups.

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Nicolas P. D. Sawaya @NicolasSawaya Aug 23, 2024

New preprint with @CampsDaan, Norm Tubman, @GrantRotskoff, @ryanmlarose #quantumalgorithms #quantumcomputing

Azulene Labs @AzuleneLabs Aug 23, 2024

Quantum algorithms update: Introducing non-Clifford diagonalization (k-NoCliD), for measurement shot reduction in cost estimation.
arxiv.org/abs/2408.11898
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Nicolas P. D. Sawaya @NicolasSawaya Apr 19, 2024

Our paper, led by Albert T. Schmitz, PhD, was published this week. Based on Pauli frame graphs, Albert's method yields quantum circuits for Hamiltonian simulation in (often) much shorter depths.
journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/1…
with @JohriSonika & Anne Matsuura

#quantumcomputing

journals.aps.org Graph optimization perspective for low-depth Trotter-Suzuki decomposition Hamiltonian simulation represents an important module in a large class of quantum algorithms and simulations such as quantum machine learning, quantum linear algebra methods, and modeling for...

Sonika Johri Verified account @JohriSonika Apr 18, 2024

My work with Nicolas Sawaya and Albert Schmitz from Intel Labs on a graph-based circuit synthesis technique for decomposition of Hamiltonian time-evolution unitaries is now in PRA after being on arxiv for a while. It's based on a very nice formalism of a `Pauli Frame graph' developed by Albert.
journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/1…
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Nicolas P. D. Sawaya @NicolasSawaya Mar 1, 2024

New preprint with Sina Bahrami: VQE approaches for bosonic Hamiltonians.

Inspired by Gard et al [npjQI 6, 10 (2020)] who designed a particle-conserving ansatz for simulating fermions, we introduce an analogous concept for simulating bosons.

arxiv.org/abs/2402.18768