Marissa Giustina
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Marissa Giustina | |
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 Giustina in 2019 | |
| Alma mater | Thayer School of Engineering University of Vienna |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab |
| Thesis | Characterizing photoresponse in black silicon at excitation below the silicon bandgap (2010) |
Marissa Giustina is an American physicist who is a senior research scientist at the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab. Her research considers the development of quantum computing and experimental tests of quantum theory.
Giustina became interested in computing as a child.[1] She was an undergraduate student in mathematics at the Mary Baldwin University, where she had one woman physics teacher, who inspired her to pursue a career in engineering.[1] She moved to the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College for undergraduate and graduate studies, where she was mentored by Lorenza Viola.[1] Her research considered the photoresponse of black silicon below the silicon bandgap.[2] She moved to the University of Vienna in 2010, where she started doctoral research in the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information.[3] As part of her research, she developed an experiment to demonstrate quantum entanglement.[4] The equipment was based at the Hofburg Palace , and generated entangled pairs of photons which were coupled into glass fibres that were carried to measurement stations. The measurement stations included a random number generator to choose which orientation to measure the photon polarization in, and superconducting detectors to determine whether the photons had arrived. Her research provided validation for quantum entanglement.[4] The extraordinary detection sensitivity and spatial separation between the pair of detectors were enough to make the result a definitive proof of entanglement.[4] Her research on loophole-free texting of Bell experiments was recognized with the Paul Ehrenfest Best Paper Award.[5][6]
