Rishab Dutta

I am a theoretical chemist with expertise in quantum mechanics, linear algebra, scientific computing, and science communication. I am currently a Computational Scientist in the Physical Sciences Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

I was previously a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Chemistry at Yale University. As a member of the Batista lab, one of my research interests was to explore the potential of hybrid qubit-oscillator quantum computers for chemistry. I led the development of the first electronic structure algorithm that can be implemented using bosonic quantum oscillators coupled to qubits.

I have a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Rice University, where I was a member of the Scuseria group. My doctoral thesis focused on developing quantum many-body methods tailored for strongly correlated paired fermionic and spin-1/2 systems. I helped develop generalizations of the Dicke state and the elementary symmetric polynomial, which inspired me to coin the term binary tree state.

More details on my research contributions is discussed on the Research page. The Publications page contains open-access preprint versions of my publications.

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