Career Profile
Rick Muller is the Senior Manager of the Advanced Microsystems Group at Sandia National Laboratories, directs the Sandia program in Quantum Information Sciences, and is Director of the LBNL/SNL NQISRC Quantum Systems Accelerator. Rick has a background in computational chemistry and materials science and is interested in high performance computing, quantum information science, semiconductor physics and fabrication, materials/molecules, and how combinations of these can help advance quantum science for national impact.
Experience
The Quantum Systems Accelerator is one of five DOE National Quantum Initiative Science Research Centers that aims to catalyze national leadership in quantum information science to co-design the algorithms, quantum devices, and engineering solutions needed to deliver certified quantum advantage in Department of Energy scientific applications. The center is led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, with Sandia National Laboratories serving as the lead partner.
The Quantum and Advanced Microsystem group at Sandia is involved in developing key techologies for quantum computing, quantum sensing, neuromorphic computing, and other novel computing technologies.
Coordinated Sandia's Quantum Information Sciences teams to advance quantum science.
The Computational Materials and Data Sciences at Sandia develops quantum materials science, density functional theory, reactive force fields, and molecular dynamics techniques for application to problems of national impact.
The Joint Program Office coordinates across the USG work on the NSCI with DOD, DOE, NSF, OSTP, OMB, NIST, IARPA. As part of this work, I led workshops exploring impact of foreign HPC on national and economic security, and initiated programs developing novel hardware and software paradigms for heterogeneous computing.
Deputy director of Sandia Science and Engineering of Quantum Information Sciences Research Challenge. Deputy Project Lead and Modeling Lead, Quantum Information Science and Technology, developing Silicon donor and dot qubits. PI for development of QCAD simulation tool for nano- and quantum electronic devices. Sandia representative for quantum computing road mapping with DOE/ASCR, DOE/ASC and DOE/Materials. Modeling Team Lead, QIST GC-LDRD project developing semiconductor qubits.
Selcted Publications
- Impact of Incorporation Kinetics on Device Fabrication with Atomic Precision. Jeffrey A. Ivie, Quinn Campbell, Justin C. Koepke, Mitchell I. Brickson, Peter A. Schultz, Richard P. Muller, Andrew M. Mounce, Daniel R. Ward, Malcolm S. Carroll, Ezra Bussmann, Andrew D. Baczewski, and Shashank Misra. Phys. Rev. Applied, 16, 054037, 2021. arXiv 2105.12074.
- Advanced Electronic Structure Calculations for Nanoelectronics. John K. Gamble, Erik Nielsen, Andrew Baczewski, Jonathan E. Moussa, Xujiao Gao, Andrew G. Salinger, and Richard P. Muller. Computational Materials, Chemistry, and Biochemistry: From Bold Initiatives to the Last Mile (2021).
- Sympy: Symbolic computing in Python. Aaron Meurer, Christopher P Smith, Mateusz Paprocki, Ondrej Certik, Matthew Rocklin, Amit Kumar, Sergiu Ivanov, Jason K Moore, Sartaj Singh, Thilina Rathnayake, Sean Vig, Brian E Granger, Richard P Muller, Francesco Bonazzi, Harsh Gupta, Shivam Vats, Fredrik Johansson, Fabian Pedregosa, Matthew J Curry, Ashutosh Saboo, Isuru Fernando, Sumith, Robert Cimrman, Anthony Scopatz. PeerJ Comput. Sci. 3, e103 (2017).
- The Promise of Quantum Simulation. Richard P. Muller and Robin Blume-Kohout. ACS Nano 9, 7738 (2015). arXiv 1507.06035.
- Report: ASCR Report on Quantum Computing for Science. Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Wim van Dam, Edward Farhi, Frank Gaitan, Travis Humble, Stephen Jordan, Andrew Landahl, Peter Love, Robert Lucas, John Preskill, Richard Muller, Krysta Svore, Nathan Wiebe, Carl Williams.
- Materials Frontiers to Empower Quantum Computing: A Report on Materials Opportunities for Quantum Computing. Christopher Richardson, John Sarrao, Antoinette Taylor, Nathan Baker, Vincent Ballarotto, Matthew Blain, Jay Dawson, David Dean, Jonathon Dubois, Vincenzo Lordi, Richard Muller, Kelly Perry, Marvin Warner. Report on DOE Workshop, Los Alamos, 2015.
- Multi-qubit gates protected by adiabaticity and dynamical decoupling applicable to donor qubits in silicon. Wayne M. Witzel, Ines Montano, Richard P. Muller, and Malcolm S. Carroll. Physical Review B 92, 081407(R) (2015). arXiv 1410.2245.
- Efficient self-consistent quantum transport simulator for quantum devices. X. Gao, D. Mamaluy, E. Nielsen, R. W. Young, A. Shirkhorshidian, M. P. Lilly, N. C. Bishop, M. S. Carroll, and R. P. Muller. Journal of Applied Physics 115, 133707 (2014). arXiv 1403.7564.
- Charge-sensed Pauli blockade in a MOS lateral double quantum dot. Khoi. T. Nguyen, Michael. P. Lilly, Erik Nielsen, Nathan Bishop, Rajib Rahman, Ralph Young, Joel Wendt, Jason Dominguez, Tammy Pluym, Jeffery Stevens, Tzu-Ming Lu, Richard Muller, Malcolm. S. Carroll. Nano Letters, 13, 5785, 2013.