Hello! đ
My name is Francisco Machado and I am a theoretical physicist working at the intersection of atomic physics and condensed matter.
Originally from Portugal, Physics has taken me through many places:
- 2022-present - ITAMP Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- 2016-2022 - PhD in Physics at UC Berkeley (advised by Prof. Norman Yao)
- 2013-2016 - Bachelor of Science in Physics at MIT
- 2012-2013 - Physics program at University of Coimbra
See research for an overview of my research interests and the publications below (or arXiv) for a complete list of my publications.
To contact me: fmachado at cfa dot harvard dot edu
Pre-prints
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Quantum Noise Spectroscopy of Critical Slowing Down in an Atomically Thin Magnet
Mark E. Ziffer, Francisco Machado, Benedikt Ursprung, Artur Lozovoi, Aya Batoul Tazi, Zhiyang Yuan, Michael E. Ziebel, Tom Delord, Nanyu Zeng, Evan Telford, Daniel G. Chica, Dane W. deQuilettes, Xiaoyang Zhu, James C. Hone, Kenneth L. Shepard, Xavier Roy, Nathalie P. de Leon, Emily J. Davis, Shubhayu Chatterjee, Carlos A. Meriles, Jonathan S. Owen, P. James Schuck, Abhay N. Pasupathy
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Prethermal Time-Crystalline Corner Modes
Si Jiang, Dong Yuan, Wenjie Jiang, Dong-Ling Deng, Francisco Machado
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Signatures of magnon hydrodynamics in an atomically-thin ferromagnet
Ruolan XueâŁ, Nikola Maksimovic, Pavel E. Dolgirev, Li-Qiao Xia, Ryota Kitagawa, Aaron MĂŒller, Francisco Machado, Dahlia R. Klein, David MacNeill, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Mikhail D. Lukin, Eugene Demler, Amir Yacoby
arXiv:2403.01057
Published work
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Enhancing a Many-body Dipolar Rydberg Tweezer Array with Arbitrary Local Controls
Guillaume Bornet, Gabriel Emperauger, Cheng Chen, Francisco Machado, Sabrina Chern, Lucas Leclerc, Bastien GĂ©ly, Daniel Barredo, Thierry Lahaye, Norman Y. Yao, Antoine Browaeys
PRL (2024) -- arXiv:2402.11056
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Long-lived topological time-crystalline order on a quantum processor
Liang Xiang, Wenjie Jiang, Zehang Bao, Zixuan Song, Shibo Xu, Ke Wang, Jiachen Chen, Feitong Jin, Xuhao Zhu, Zitian Zhu, Fanhao Shen, Ning Wang, Chuanyu Zhang, Yaozu Wu, Yiren Zou, Jiarun Zhong, Zhengyi Cui, Aosai Zhang, Ziqi Tan, Tingting Li, Yu Gao, Jinfeng Deng, Xu Zhang, Hang Dong, Pengfei Zhang, Si Jiang, Weikang Li, Zhide Lu, Zheng-Zhi Sun, Hekang Li, Zhen Wang, Chao Song, Qiujiang Guo, Fangli Liu, Zhe-Xuan Gong, Alexey V. Gorshkov, Norman Y. Yao, Thomas Iadecola, Francisco Machado, H. Wang, Dong-Ling Deng
Nature Communications (2024) -- arXiv:2401.04333
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Long-lived coherences in strongly interacting spin ensembles
William K. Schenken, Simon A. Meynell, Francisco Machado, Bingtian Ye, Claire A. McLellan, Maxime Joos, V. V. Dobrovitski, Norman Y. Yao, Ania C. Bleszynski Jayich
PRA (2023) -- arXiv:2309.15444
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Quantum noise spectroscopy of dynamical critical phenomena
Francisco Machado, Eugene A. Demler, Norman Y. Yao, Shubhayu Chatterjee
PRL (2023) -- arXiv:2211.02663
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Universal Kardar-Parisi-Zhang dynamics in integrable quantum systems
Bingtian Ye†, Francisco Machado†, Jack Kemp†, Ross B. Hutson, Norman Y. Yao
PRL (2022) -- arXiv:2205.02853
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Quantum gas microscopy of Kardar-Parisi-Zhang superdiffusion
David Wei, Antonio Rubio-Abadal, Bingtian Ye, Francisco Machado, Jack Kemp, Kritsana Srakaew, Simon Hollerith, Jun Rui, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Norman Y. Yao, Immanuel Bloch, Johannes Zeiher
Science (2022) -- arXiv:2107.00038
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An absolutely stable open time crystal
Francisco Machado†, Quntao Zhuang†, Norman Y. Yao, Michael P. Zaletel
PRL (2023) -- arXiv:2110.00585
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Observation of a many-body-localized discrete time crystal with a programmable spin-based quantum simulator
Joe Randall, Conor E. Bradley, Floris van der Gronden, Asier Galicia, Mohamed H. Abobeih, Matthew Markham, Dan J. Twitchen, Francisco Machado, Norman Y. Yao, Tim H. Taminiau
Science (2021) -- arXiv:2107.00736
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Emergent hydrodynamics in a strongly interacting dipolar spin ensemble
Chong Zu†, Francisco Machado†, Bingtian Ye†, Soonwon Choi, Bryce Kobrin, Thomas Mittiga, Satcher Hsieh, Prabudhya Bhattacharyya, Matthew Markham, Dan Twitchen, Andrey Jarmola, Dmitry Budker, Chris R. Laumann, Joel E. Moore, Norman Y. Yao
Nature (2021) -- arXiv:2104.07678
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Floquet Phases of Matter via Classical Prethermalization
Bingtian Ye†, Francisco Machado†, Norman Y. Yao
PRL (2021) -- arXiv:2104.13927
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Probing many-body noise in a strongly interacting two-dimensional dipolar spin system
Emily J. Davis†, Bingtian Ye†, Francisco Machado†, Simon A. Meynell, Thomas Mittiga, William Schenken, Maxime Joos, Bryce Kobrin, Yuanqi Lyu, Dolev Bluvstein, Soonwon Choi, Chong Zu, Ania C. Bleszynski Jayich, Norman Y. Yao
Nature Physics (2023) -- arXiv:2103.12742
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Observation of a prethermal time crystal
Antonis Kyprianidis†, Francisco Machado†, William Morong, Patrick Becker, Kate S. Collins, Dominic V. Else, Lei Feng, Paul W. Hess, Chetan Nayak, Guido Pagano, Norman Y. Yao, Christopher Monroe,
Science (2021) -- arXiv:2102.01695
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Emergent ergodicity at the transition between many-body localized phases
Rahul Sahay†, Francisco Machado†, Bingtian Ye†, Chris R. Laumann, Norman Y. Yao
PRL (2021) -- arXiv:2008.08585
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Long-Range Prethermal Phases of Nonequilibrium Matter
Francisco Machado†, Dominic V. Else, Gregory D. Kahanamoku-Meyer, Chetan Nayak, Norman Y. Yao
PRX (2020) -- arXiv:1908.07530
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Emergent hydrodynamics in Floquet quantum systems
Bingtian Ye†, Francisco Machado†, Christopher David White, Roger S. K. Mong, Norman Y. Yao
PRL (2020) -- arXiv:1902.01859
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Imaging stress and magnetism at high pressures using a nanoscale quantum sensor
S. Hsieh, P. Bhattacharyya, C. Zu, T. Mittiga, T. J. Smart, Francisco Machado, B. Kobrin, T. O. Höhn, N. Z. Rui, M. Kamrani, S. Chatterjee, S. Choi, M. Zaletel, V. V. Struzhkin, J. E. Moore, V. I. Levitas, R. Jeanloz, N. Y. Yao
Science (2019) -- arXiv:1812.08796
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An improved Lieb-Robinson bound for many-body Hamiltonians with power-law interactions
Dominic V. Else, Francisco Machado, Chetan Nayak, Norman Y. Yao
PRA (2020) -- arXiv:1809.06369
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Imaging the local charge environment of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond
Thomas Mittiga, Satcher Hsieh, Chong Zu, Bryce Kobrin, Francisco Machado, Prabudhya Bhattacharyya, Nicholas Rui, Andrey Jarmola, Soonwon Choi, Dmitry Budker, Norman Y. Yao
PRL (2018) -- arXiv:1809.01668
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Exponentially Slow Heating in Short and Long-range Interacting Floquet Systems
Francisco Machado, Gregory D. Kahanamoku-Meyer, Dominic V. Else, Chetan Nayak, Norman Y. Yao
PR Research (2019) -- arXiv:1708.01620
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Shaping Polaritons to Reshape Selection Rules
Francisco Machado†, Nicholas Rivera†, Hrvoje Buljan, Marin SoljaÄiÄ, Ido Kaminer
ACS Photonics (2018) -- arXiv:1610.01668
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An analysis of the evolving comoving number density of galaxies in hydrodynamical simulations
Paul Torrey, Sarah Wellons, Francisco Machado, Brendan Griffen, Dylan Nelson, Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez, Ryan McKinnon, Annalisa Pillepich, Chung-Pei Ma, Mark Vogelsberger, Volker Springel, and Lars Hernquist
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2015)
â These authors contributed equally to the work.