Peter McMahon
Prof Assoc
Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
211 publications
8,167 citations
37 h-index
Computer Science
Rising Papers (3)
2025-09-03 · Nature · Artificial Intelligence
Training of physical neural networks
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
44 citations · 88.5x expected for field
2025-01-03 · Nature Communications · Artificial Intelligence
Quantum-limited stochastic optical neural networks operating at a few quanta per activation
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
18 citations · 37.4x expected for field
2025-10-08 · Nature · Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Programmable on-chip nonlinear photonics
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
12 citations · 7.7x expected for field
Recent Papers (32)
2026-05-10 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Measurement-Adapted Eigentask Representations for Photon-Limited Optical Readout: data, precomputed results, and code snapshot
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
2026-05-10 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Measurement-Adapted Eigentask Representations for Photon-Limited Optical Readout: data, precomputed results, and code snapshot
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
2026-05-06 · npj Quantum Information · Artificial Intelligence
Large-scale quantum reservoir computing using a Gaussian Boson Sampler
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
2026-04-13 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Ultra-low-light computer vision using trained photon correlations
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
2026-04-13 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Ultra-low-light computer vision using trained photon correlations
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
2026-04-11 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Data repository of the paper "Quantum computational displacement sensing"
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
2026-04-11 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Data repository of the paper "Quantum computational displacement sensing"
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
2026-03-24 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Data repository of the paper "Machine vision with small numbers of detected photons per inference"
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
2026-03-24 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Data repository of the paper "Machine vision with small numbers of detected photons per inference"
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
2026-03-04 · Instrumentation
True-to-physics modeling enables sensing with a handful of photons detected per inference in total
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
2026-02-19 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Hamiltonian-Reconstruction distance as a success metric for the Variational Quantum Eigensolver
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
2026-01-14
Exponential advantage in quantum sensing of correlated parameters
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
2026-01-14 · Quantum
Exponential advantage in quantum sensing of correlated parameters
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
2026-01-14 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · Condensed Matter Physics
Probabilistic Ising Machine with Parallel Explorations
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
2026-01-14 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · Condensed Matter Physics
Probabilistic Ising Machine with Parallel Explorations
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
2025-12-08 · Nature Physics
Arbitrary control over multimode wave propagation for machine learning
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
2023-11-02
Quantum Variational Solving of Nonlinear and Multi-Dimensional Partial Differential Equations
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
2023-07-31
The physics of optical computing
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
2023-01-17
Roadmap for Unconventional Computing with Nanotechnology
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
2022-09-07
Expectation values from the single-layer quantum approximate optimization algorithm on Ising problems
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
2022-07-15
Ising Machines’ Dynamics and Regularization for Near-Optimal MIMO Detection
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
2022-03-11
Onset of non-Gaussian quantum physics in pulsed squeezing with mesoscopic fields
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
2022-03-11
Nonlinear quantum behavior of ultrashort-pulse optical parametric oscillators
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
2022-01-10
An optical neural network using less than 1 photon per multiplication
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
2022-01-03
Efficient sampling of ground and low-energy Ising spin configurations with a coherent Ising machine
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
2021-11-03
Attention-based quantum tomography
Paul GinspargProfessor, Information Science DEPT · BCIS
Peter L McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
2021-06-02
Experimental error mitigation using linear rescaling for variational\n quantum eigensolving with up to 20 qubits
Paul GinspargProfessor, Information Science DEPT · BCIS
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
2020-06-18
Engineering a Kerr-Based Deterministic Cubic Phase Gate via Gaussian Operations
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
2020-05-29
A quantum annealer with fully programmable all-to-all coupling via Floquet engineering
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
2020-01-01
The Capacity of Quantum Neural Networks
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
2019-05-03
Experimental investigation of performance differences between coherent Ising machines and a quantum annealer
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN
2019-02-01
Destabilization of Local Minima in Analog Spin Systems by Correction of Amplitude Heterogeneity
Peter L. McMahonProf Assoc, Applied & Engineering Physics DEPT · EN