John Chiaverini’s research at Lincoln Laboratory and at MIT is in the area of trapped-ion quantum information processing, focusing on overcoming challenges to practical quantum computing and sensing through utilization of integrated technologies and novel techniques and encodings.

Dr. Chiaverini received a BS degree in physics from Case Western Reserve University, where he studied the experimental growth dynamics of solid helium crystals, and earned a PhD degree at Stanford University.  His doctoral research explored non-Newtonian gravity at small length scales and was based on a microcantilever Cavendish-style experiment.  This work was among the first to put stringent bounds on novel gravity effects at the 10–100 micron length scale.  He did postdoctoral work at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)–Boulder, where he implemented quantum algorithms, such as quantum teleportation and quantum error correction, in systems of trapped ions, while also developing a novel surface-ion-trap technology for more straightforward microfabrication and integration.  He then took a staff position in the Physics Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he further developed ion-trap integration technologies for quantum simulation before moving to Lincoln Laboratory, where for the last decade he has led the trapped-ion team.