Stefano Polla's homepage

Post-doctoral researcher @ Leiden university.

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Huygens laboratory 224

Niels Bohrweg 2

2333 CA Leiden, NL

Researcher at the Lorentz Institute for theoretical physics and part of the Applied Quantum Algorithms group.

Leading the Leiden team in the QC2 – Quantum computing for quantum chemistry collaboration (Leiden, VU Amsterdam, CWI).

Work in progress…

Thesis Cover

This is the cover of my PhD thesis: an artistic representation of quantum computing emerging as a new technology, inspired by the rising cities painted by the futurist movement. — by Jeanne M. Viet Miss J Art

selected publications

  1. Error Mitigation and Circuit Division for Early Fault-Tolerant Quantum Phase Estimation
    Alicja Dutkiewicz*, Stefano Polla*, Maximilian Scheurer, Christian Gogolin, William J. Huggins, and Thomas E. O’Brien
    Feb 2025
    arXiv Code
  2. JCTC
    FragPT2: Multifragment Wave Function Embedding with Perturbative Interactions
    Emiel Koridon, Souloke Sen, Lucas Visscher, and Stefano Polla
    Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, Jan 2025
    DOI arXiv
  3. Quantum
    A Hybrid Quantum Algorithm to Detect Conical Intersections
    Emiel Koridon, Joana Fraxanet, Alexandre Dauphin, Lucas Visscher, Thomas E. O’Brien, and Stefano Polla
    Quantum, Feb 2024
    DOI arXiv Code
  4. MLST
    Learning Density Functionals from Noisy Quantum Data
    Emiel Koridon, Felix Frohnert, Eric Prehn, Evert van Nieuwenburg, Jordi Tura, and Stefano Polla
    Machine Learning: Science and Technology, Apr 2025
    DOI arXiv Code
  5. PRX Quantum
    Error Mitigation via Verified Phase Estimation
    Thomas E. O’Brien, Stefano Polla, Nicholas C. Rubin, William J Huggins, Sam McArdle, Sergio Boixo, and 2 more authors
    PRX Quantum, Oct 2021
    DOI arXiv
  6. Quantum
    Virtual Mitigation of Coherent Non-Adiabatic Transitions by Echo Verification
    Benjamin F. Schiffer, Dyon Vreumingen, Jordi Tura, and Stefano Polla
    Quantum, May 2024
    DOI arXiv Code