Mohammad Samani

m [at] msamani [dot] ca
Encrypt your email. Here is my public key.
Finger print: e928 f972 d86e 6687 a19b e5a7 1b1c 5b0f 1d3c 5768

I am an experimental condensed-matter physicist. I have experience working in low-temperature physics laboratories and clean room environments. I have worked on designing, fabricating, and characterizing quantum devices.


Experience

Senior Scientist

D-Wave Systems, Burnaby, Canada

I work as a researcher with the processor development team to improve various characteristics of the quantum annealer processors: coherence times, noise levels, and so on.

January 2022 - Present

Post-Doctoral Fellow

Department of Physics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Using adiabatic nuclear demagnetization, we cooled transport electrons in a Coulomb Blockade Thermometer down to 224 µK, and stayed well below 1 mK for about an hour. I worked in the group of Dominik Zumbühl

January 2019 - December 2021

Research Fellow

Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

I developed fluid mechanical models to help understand the development of limb buds during the early stages of embryo's development. I worked in the group of Sevan Hopyan

January 2017 - December 2018

Lecturer

York University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Toronto, Canada

Taught MATH 3090, Computational Mathematics.

September 2018 - December 2018

PhD Student and Teaching Assistant

University of British Columbia, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vancouver, Canada

PhD student in Professor Joshua Folk's lab. Teaching assistant for various physics and engineering physics courses.

September 2011 - August 2016

Computer Programmer

Engage Learning Systems, Toronto, Canada

I wrote programs using PHP, MySQL and so on. Fun times! Engage does not exist as a company anymore, but Workbay does.

January 2008 - August 2011

Education

University of British Columbia

PhD, Physics
September 2011 - August 2016

York University

BSc, Computational Mathematics

Honours Project Adviser: Professor Huaxiong Huang

August 2002 - May 2006

Publications

  • "Computational supremacy in quantum simulation" Andrew D. King, Alberto Nocera, Marek M. Rams, Jacek Dziarmaga, Roeland Wiersema, William Bernoudy, Jack Raymond, Nitin Kaushal, Niclas Heinsdorf, Richard Harris, Kelly Boothby, Fabio Altomare, Andrew J. Berkley, ... Mohammad Samani, ... Juan Carrasquilla, Marcel Franz, and Mohammad H. Amin
    arxiv 2024
  • "Microkelvin electronics on a pulse-tube cryostat with a gate Coulomb blockade thermometer" Mohammad Samani, Christian P. Scheller, Omid Sharifi Sedeh, Dominik M. Zumbühl, Nikolai Yurttagül, Kestutis Grigoras, David Gunnarsson, Mika Prunnila, Alexander T. Jones, Jonathan R. Prance, and Richard P. Haley
    Physical Review Research, arxiv 2022
  • "Transgenic force sensors and software to measure force transmission across the mammalian nuclear envelope in vivo" Kelli D. Fenelon, Evan Thomas, Mohammad Samani, Min Zhu, Hirotaka Tao, Yu Sun, Helen McNeill, Sevan Hopyan
    Biology Open 2022
  • "Remote Doping of Scalable Nanowire Branches" Martin Friedl, Kris Cerveny, Chunyi Huang, Didem Dede, Mohammad Samani, Megan O. Hill, Nicholas Morgan, Wonjong Kim, Lucas Güniat, Jaime Segura-Ruiz, Lincoln J. Lauhon, Dominik M. Zumbühl, and Anna Fontcuberta i Morral
    Nano Letters 2020
  • "Spatial mapping of tissue properties in vivo reveals a 3D stiffness gradient in the mouse limb bud" Min Zhu, Hirotaka Tao, Mohammad Samani, Mengxi Luo, Xian Wang, Sevan Hopyan, and Yu Sun
    PNAS, bioArxiv 2020
  • "Oscillatory cortical forces promote three dimensional cell intercalations that shape the murine mandibular arch" Hirotaka Tao, Min Zhu, Kimberly Lau, Owen K. W. Whitley, Mohammad Samani, ... Sidhartha Goyal, Yu Sun & Sevan Hopyan
    Nature Communications, bioArxiv 2019
  • "Direct entropy measurement in a mesoscopic quantum system" Nikolaus Hartman, Christian Olsen, Silvia Lüscher, Mohammad Samani, Saeed Fallahi, Geoffrey C Gardner, Michael Manfra, Joshua Folk
    Nature Physics, arXiv 2018
  • "Low-temperature illumination and annealing of ultrahigh quality quantum wells" Mohammad Samani, Alexander V Rossokhaty, Ebrahim Sajadi, Silvia Lüscher, Joshua A Folk, John D Watson, Geoffrey C Gardner, Michael J Manfra
    Physicsl Review B, arXiv 2014

Volunteering

Pathways to Education

Physics/Math Tutor
September 2022 - Present

City of North Vancouver

I am a city park steward. I killed invasive plants. Occasionally I plant trees too.
December 2022 - December 2023