Kartiek Agarwal

Kartiek Agarwal is a condensed matter theorist in the Material Science Division. His interests include the study of quantum materials exhibiting magnetic, superconducting, and topological properties, non-equilibrium dynamics in artificial quantum systems, and quantum information theoretic questions relating to entanglement measures, dynamics and state and Hamiltonian tomography. 

Agarwal got his undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, and PhD from Harvard University in 2016.  He was a postdoctoral scholar at Princeton University before joining the physics department at McGill University as an assistant professor in 2019. He joined Argonne in 2024. 

Selected Recent Publications: 

• Pierre-Gabriel Rozon, Ning Bao, Kartiek Agarwal, ​“Optimal twirling depths for shadow tomography in the presence of noise”, arXiv:2311.10137 
• S. Vijayakrishnan, F. Poietvin, O. Yu, Z. Berkson-Korenberg, M. Petrescu, M. P. Lilly, T. Szkopek, K. Agarwal, K.W. West, L N. Pfeiffer, G. Gervais, ​“Anomalous electronic transport in high-mobility Corbino rings”, Nature Communications 14, 3906 (2023)
• Bill Truong, Kartiek Agarwal, Tami Pereg-Barnea, ​“Optimizing the transport of Majorana zero modes in one-dimensional topological superconductors”, Physical Review B 107, 104516 (2023)
• Tristan Martin, Ivar Martin, Kartiek Agarwal, ​“Effect of quasiperiodic and random noise on many-body dynamical decoupling protocols”, Physical Review B 106, 134306 (2022)
• Pierre-Gabriel Rozon, Michael J Gullans, Kartiek Agarwal, ​“Constructing quantum many-body scar Hamiltonians from Floquet automata”, Physical Review B 106, 184304 (2022)
• A. W. Schiff-Kearn, L. Gingras, S. Bernier, N. Chimanara, K. Agarwal, J.-M. Menard, D. G. Cooke, ​“Front-induced transitions control THz waves”, Nature Communications Physics 4, 162 (2021)
• Ivar Martin, Kartiek Agarwal, ​“Double Braiding Majoranas for Quantum Computing and Hamiltonian Engineering”, Physical Review X Quantum 1, 020324 (2020)
• Kartiek Agarwal, Ivar Martin, ​“Dynamical enhancement of symmetries in many-body systems”, Physical Review Letters 125, 080602 (2020)
• M. T. Randeria, K. Agarwal, B. E. Feldman, H. Ding, H. Ji, R. J. Cava, S. L. Sondhi, S. A. Parameswaran, A. Yazdani, ​“Interacting multi-channel topological boundary modes in a quantum Hall valley system”, Nature 566, 363-367 (2019)
• T. I. Anderson, B. L. Dwyer, J. D. Sanchez-Yamagishi, J. F. Rodriguez-Nieva, K. Agarwal, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, E. A. Demler, P. Kim, H. Park, M. D. Lukin, ​“Electron-phonon instability in graphene revealed by global and local noise probes”, Science 364, 154-157 (2019)
• J. F. Rodriguez-Nieva, K. Agarwal, T. Giamarchi, B. I. Halperin, M. D. Lukin, E. Demler, ​“Probing one-dimensional systems via noise magnetometry with single spin qubits”, Physical Review B 98, 195433 (2018) 
• K. Agarwal, R. N. Bhatt, S. L. Sondhi, ​“Fast preparation of critical ground states using superluminal fronts”, Physical Review Letters 120, 210604 (2018)