Recent Projects
Quantum Computing
Superconducting phase qubits, microwave frequency combs, and nonlinear traveling-wave parametric amplifiers. With D. P. Pappas, Quantum Devices Group, NIST, Boulder.
R.P. Erickson and D.P. Pappas, Theory of multiwave mixing within the superconducting kinetic-inductance traveling-wave amplifier, Phys. Rev. B 95, 104506 (2017). [Editors' Suggestion]
R. P. Erickson, M. R. Vissers, M. Sandberg, S. R. Jefferts, and D. P. Pappas, Frequency Comb Generation in Superconducting Resonators, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 187002 (2014). [Editors' Suggestion, Cover Article]
Intracellular Transport
Three-dimensional Monte Carlo simulation of filament cargos and molecular motors. With C. C. Yu, Physics Department, University of California, Irvine. For an interesting perspective see The Inner Life of the Cell (credit: BioVisions at Harvard University).