Francisco Machado

ITAMP Fellow | Harvard University



Francisco Machado | ITAMP Fellow Harvard University

Hello! 👋

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:

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

  1. 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
    arXiv:2407.05614

  2. Prethermal Time-Crystalline Corner Modes
    Si Jiang, Dong Yuan, Wenjie Jiang, Dong-Ling Deng, Francisco Machado
    arXiv:2406.01686

  3. Signatures of magnon hydrodynamics in an atomically-thin ferromagnet
    Ruolan Xue⁣, 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

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Quantum noise spectroscopy of dynamical critical phenomena
    Francisco Machado, Eugene A. Demler, Norman Y. Yao, Shubhayu Chatterjee
    PRL (2023) -- arXiv:2211.02663

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. An absolutely stable open time crystal
    Francisco Machado, Quntao Zhuang, Norman Y. Yao, Michael P. Zaletel
    PRL (2023) -- arXiv:2110.00585

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. Floquet Phases of Matter via Classical Prethermalization
    Bingtian Ye, Francisco Machado, Norman Y. Yao
    PRL (2021) -- arXiv:2104.13927

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. Shaping Polaritons to Reshape Selection Rules
    Francisco Machado, Nicholas Rivera, Hrvoje Buljan, Marin Soljačić, Ido Kaminer
    ACS Photonics (2018) -- arXiv:1610.01668

  21. 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)

† These authors contributed equally to the work.