Dr. Benedikt Andreas Placke

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsTheoretical Condensed Matter Physics
KeywordsQuantum Error Correction, Frustrated Magnetism, Topological Order

Current contact address

CountryUnited Kingdom
CityOxford
InstitutionUniversity of Oxford
InstituteDepartment of Physics

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Shivaji SondhiDepartment of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford
Start of initial sponsorship01/02/2024

Programme(s)

2023Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2025Adithya Sriram and Vedika Khemani and Benedikt Placke: Diffusion Codes: Self-Correction from Small(er)-Set Expansion with Tunable Non-locality. In: arXiv, 2025,
2025Benedikt Placke and Grace M. Sommers and Nikolas P. Breuckmann and Tibor Rakovszky and Vedika Khemani: Expansion creates spin-glass order in finite-connectivity models: a rigorous and intuitive approach from the theory of LDPC codes. In: arXiv, 2025,
2025Dominik Hahn and S. A. Parameswaran and Benedikt Placke: Provably Efficient Quantum Thermal State Preparation via Local Driving. In: arXiv, 2025,
2025Benedikt Placke and G. J. Sreejith and Alessio Lerose and S. L. Sondhi: Running Quantum Computers in Discovery Mode. In: arXiv, 2025,
2025Smith, E. M. and Schäfer, R. and Dudemaine, J. and Placke, B. and Yuan, B. and Morgan, Z. and Ye, F. and Moessner, R. and Benton, O. and Bianchi, A. D. and Gaulin, B. D.: Single-Crystal Diffuse Neutron Scattering Study of the Dipole-Octupole Quantum Spin-Ice Candidate Ce2Zr2O7: No Apparent Octupolar Correlations Above T=0.05K. In: Physical Review X, 15, 2025,
2025Placke, Benedikt and Parameswaran, S. A.: Slow measurement-only dynamics of entanglement in Pauli subsystem codes. In: Physical Review B, 111, 2025,
2025Breach, Oliver and Placke, Benedikt and Claeys, Pieter W. and Parameswaran, S.A.: Solvable Quantum Circuits in Tree+1 Dimensions. In: PRX Quantum, 6, 2025,
2025Smith, E. M. and Fitterman, A. and Schäfer, R. and Placke, B. and Woods, A. and Lee, S. and Huang, S. H.-Y. and Beare, J. and Sharma, S. and Chatterjee, D. and Balz, C. and Stone, M. B. and Kolesnikov, A. I. and Wildes, A. R. and Kermarrec, E. and Luke, G. M. and Benton, O. and Moessner, R. and Movshovich, R. and Bianchi, A. D. and Gaulin, B. D.: Two-Peak Heat Capacity Accounts for R*log(2) Entropy and Ground State Access in the Dipole-Octupole Pyrochlore Ce2Hf2O7. In: Physical Review Letters, 135, 2025,
2024Tibor Rakovszky and Benedikt Placke and Nikolas P. Breuckmann and Vedika Khemani: Bottlenecks in quantum channels and finite temperature phases of matter. In: arXiv, 2024,
2024Benedikt Placke and Tibor Rakovszky and Nikolas P. Breuckmann and Vedika Khemani: Topological Quantum Spin Glass Order and its realization in qLDPC codes. In: arXiv, 2024,