Staff: Associate Professor
Education:
Candidate of Science Degree (PhD) – Samara State University, Russia,
(presented Oct 2006, approved Jan 2007)
Recent Work History:
January 2008 – November 2009: Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. F. Petruccione
December 2009 – May 2016:NITheP Researcher
June 2016 – October 2020: Senior Lecturer (Physics), School of Chemistry and Physics, UKZN
November 2020 – till now: Associate Professor (Physics), School of Chemistry and Physics, UKZN
Rated Y2 (Young researcher) by NRF from 2013 to 2018.
Rated C1 (Established researcher) by NRF from 2019 to 2024.
ArXiv pre-prints can be found here,
Recent Publications:
1. IS, F Petruccione & D Burgarth “Dynamics of nonequilibrium thermal entanglement” Phys. Rev. A 78, 062301 (2008) – link
2. A Sergi, IS & F Petruccione “Numerical and analytical approach to the quantum dynamics of two coupled spins in bosonic baths” Phys. Rev. A 80, 012108 (2009) – link
3. , E Ferraro, A Napoli, A Messina & F Petruccione”Non-Markovian dynamics of an interacting qubit pair coupled to two independent bosonic baths” J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 42 (2009) 485301 – link
4. N Pumulo, IS & F Petruccione “Non-equilibrium thermal entanglement for a three spin chain” Physics Letters A (2011) – link
5. IS, N Pumulo & F Petruccione “Non-equilibrium thermal entanglement for simple qubit systems” Rev. Mex. Fis. (2011) –
6. IS, A Marais, F Petruccione & A Ekert “Decoherence-Assisted Transport in a Dimer System” Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 020602 (2012) – link
7. S. Attal, F Petruccione”Open quantum walks on graphs” (with F.Petruccione and S. Attal), Physics Letters A (2012) –
8. S Attal, F Petruccione, C Sabot & IS “Open Quantum Random Walks” J Stat Phys (2012) – link
9. IS & F Petruccione “Efficiency of open quantum walk implementation of dissipative quantum computing algorithms”, QuantumInformationProcessing (2012) – link
10. IS & F Petruccione “Properties of open quantum walks on Z” Phys. Scr. T151 014077 (2012) – link
11. A Ghesquière, IS & F Petruccione “Non-equilibrium thermal entanglement in a two-particle system” Phys. Scr. T151 014017 (2012) – link
12. V Semin, IS & F Petruccione “Initial correlation in a system of a spin coupled to a spin bath through an intermediate spin” Phys. Rev. A 86 062114 (2012) – link
13. A Marais, IS, F Petruccione & A Ekert”Decoherence-assisted transport in quantum networks” (with A. Marais, A. Kay, F. Petruccione and A. Ekert), New J. Phys. 15 013038 (2013) – link
14. R Sweke, IS & F Petruccione “Dissipative preparation of large W states in optical cavities” Phys. Rev. A 87, 042323 (2013) – link
15. R Sweke, IS & F Petruccione “Dissipative preparation of generalized Bell states” J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 46 104004 (2013) – link
16. A Ghesquière, IS & F Petruccione “Dynamics and non-equilibrium steady state in a system of coupled harmonic oscillators” Physics Letters A, Vol. 377, Issues 28–30, 1682 (2013) – link
17. IS & F Petruccione “Open Quantum Walks: a short introduction” J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 442 012003 (2013) – link
18. IS & F Petruccione “Microscopic Derivation of Open Quantum Walk on Two-Node Graph” Open Syst. Inf. Dyn. 20, 1340007 () – link
19. V Semin, IS & F Petruccione “Arbitrary spin in a spin bath: Exact dynamics and approximation techniques” Phys. Rev. A 89 012107 (2014)
20. M Schuld, IS & F Petruccione “Quantum walks on graphs representing the firing patterns of a quantum neural network” Phys. Rev. A 89 032333 (2014)
21. IS & F Petruccione “Quantum optical implementation of open quantum walks”, Int. J. Quantum Inform. Vol. 12, No. 2 (2014) 1461010
22. R Sweke, IS & F Petruccione “Simulation of single – qubit open quantum systems”, Phys. Rev. A 90 022331 (2014)
23. M Schuld, IS & F Petruccione “The quest for a Quantum Neural Network”, Quantum Information Processing (2014)
24. M Schuld, IS & F Petruccione “Quantum Computing for Pattern Classification”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol 8862, Springer (2014) –
25. M Schuld, IS & F Petruccione “Simulating a perceptron on a quantum computer”, Physics Letters A, 379 pp. 660-663, (2015)
26. M Schuld, IS & F Petruccione “An introduction to quantum machine learning”, Contemporary Physics, Vol 56, Issue 2, 172 (2015)
27. A Marais, IS, F Petruccione & R van Grondelle “A quantum protective mechanism in photosynthesis”, Scientific Reports 5 8720, (2015) – link
28. R Sweke, IS, D Bernard & F Petruccione Universal simulation of Markovian open quantum systems”, Phys. Rev. A 91 062308 (2015)
29. IS & F Petruccione “Microscopic derivation of open quantum walks”, Phys. Rev. A 92 032105 (2015)
30. IS & F Petruccione “Microscopic derivation of open quantum Brownian motion: a particular example”, Phys. Scr. T165 014017 (2015)
31. R Sweke, M Sanz, IS, F Petruccine & E Solano “Digital quantum simulation of many-body non-Markovian dynamics”, Phys. Rev. A 94 022317 (2016) –
32. M Schuld, IS & F Petruccione “Prediction by linear regression on a quantum computer”, Phys. Rev. A 94 022342 (2016)
33. C L Latune, IS & F Petruccione “Quantum force estimation in arbitrary non-Markovian Gaussian baths” Phys. Rev. A 94 052115 (2016) – link
34. IS & F Petruccione “Steady-State control of open Quantum Brownian Motion”, Fortschritte der Physik, Vol 65, Issues 6-8, 1600063 (2017)
35. B. Adams, IS & F Petruccione “An open quantum system approach to the radical pair mechanism”, Scientific Reports 8 15719 (2018) – link
36. A. Marais et al, “The Future of Quantum Biology”,
37. Y H Goolam Hossen, IS & F Petruccione, “Non-reversal Open Quantum Walks”, Open Syst. Inf. Dyn. 20, 4, 1850017 (2018) – link
38. C L Latune, IS and F Petruccione, “Apparent temperature: demystifying the relation between quantum coherence, correlations, and heat flows“, Quantum Sci. Technol. 4 025005 (2019) – link
39. IS and F Petruccione, “Open Quantum Walks: A mini review of the field and recent developments”, Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. (2019) – link
40. Y Ismail, IS and F. Petruccione, “Integrating machine learning techniques in quantum communication to characterize the quantum channel”, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 36, B116-B121 (2019) – link
41. C L Latune, IS and F Petruccione, “Quantum coherence, many-body correlations, and non-thermal effects for autonomous thermal machines“, Scientific Reports 9, 3191 (2019) – link
42. M Mwalaba, IS and F Petruccione, “Dynamics and thermalization in a simple mesoscopic fermionic bath”, Phys. Rev. A99, 052102 (2019) – link
43. C L Latune, IS and F Petruccione, “Energetic and entropic effects of bath-induced coherences”, Phys. Rev. A99, 052105 (2019) – link
44. D K Park, IS, M Fingerhuth, F Petruccione and J K Rhee, “Parallel quantum trajectories via forking for sampling without redundancy“, New J. Phys. 21 083024 (2019) – link
45. C L Latune, IS and F Petruccione, “Heat flow reversals without reversing the arrow of time: The role of internal quantum coherences and correlations”, Phys. Rev. Research 1, 033097 (2019) – link
46. C L Latune, IS and F Petruccione, “Thermodynamics from indistinguishability: Mitigating and amplifying the effects of the bath”, Phys. Rev. Research 1,033192 (2019) – link
47. SA Uriri, F Wudarski, IS, F Petruccione, and MS Tame, “Experimental investigation of Markovian and non-Markovian channel addition”, Phys. Rev. A 101, 052107 (2020) – link
48. G Kemp, IS, and F Petruccione, “Lazy open quantum walks”, Phys. Rev. A 102, 012220 (2020) – link
49. C L Latune, IS and F Petruccione, “Collective heat capacity for quantum thermometry and quantum engine enhancements”, New J. Phys. 22 083049 (2020) – link
50. C L Latune, IS and F Petruccione, “Negative contributions to entropy production induced by quantum coherences”, Phys. Rev. A102, 042220 (2020) – link
51. C L Latune, IS and F Petruccione, “Roles of quantum coherences in thermal machines”, Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. (2021) – link
52. A Pellow-Jarman, IS, A Pillay and F Petruccione, “A comparison of various classical optimizers for a variational quantum linear solver”, Quantum Inf Process 20, 202 (2021) – link
53. Early transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in South Africa: An epidemiological and phylogenetic report (2021) – link.
54. Implementation of an efficient SARS-CoV-2 specimen pooling strategy for high throughput diagnostic testing (2021) – link.
55. K Naicker, IS and F Petruccione, “Machine learning for excitation energy transfer dynamics”, Phys. Rev. Research 4, 033175 (2022) – link
56. B Adams, IS, R van Grondelle, F Petruccione, “Quantum tunnelling in the context of SARS-CoV-2 infection.” Sci Rep 12, 16929 (2022) – link
57. A Pellow-Jarman, IS, A Pillay and F Petruccione, “Near term algorithms for linear systems of equations”. Quantum Inf Process 22, 258 (2023) – link
58. M Lourens, IS, DK Park, C Blank and F Petruccione. “Hierarchical quantum circuit representations for neural architecture search”, npj Quantum Inf 9, 79 (2023) – link.
59. IJ David, IS and F Petruccione, “Digital Simulation of Single Qubit Markovian Open Quantum Systems: A Tutorial”, Quanta 12, 131–163 (2023) – link.
60. IJ David, IS & F Petruccione, “Benchmarking regularisation methods for quantum process tomography on NISQ devices”, Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 232, 3237–3250 (2023) – link.
61. , , , , A Multi-Class Quantum Kernel-Based Classifier. Adv Quantum Technol. (2024), 7, 2300249 – link.
62. IJ David, IS. & F Petruccione, Digital simulation of convex mixtures of Markovian and non-Markovian single-qubit Pauli channels on NISQ devices. EPJ Quantum Technol. 11, 14 (2024) – link.
63. D Brand, IS & F Petruccione, Markovian noise modelling and parameter extraction framework for quantum devices. Sci Rep 14, 4769 (2024) – link.
64. A Pellow-Jarman, S McFarthing, IS, DK Park, A Pillay, F Petruccione, The effect of classical optimizers and Ansatz depth on QAOA performance in noisy devices. Sci Rep 14, 16011 (2024) – link.
65. R. Pellow-Jarman, A. Pillay, IS, F. Petruccione, Hybrid genetic optimization for quantum feature map design. Quantum Mach. Intell. 6, 45 (2024) – link.
66. S. McFarthing, A. Pillay, I.Sinayskiy, F. Petruccione, Classical ensembles of single-qubit quantum variational circuits for classification. Quantum Mach. Intell. 6, 81 (2024) – link.
Former Ph.D. students (with graduation year):
1. Adriana Marais (2015)
2. Ryan Sweke (2017)
3. Maria Schuld (2017)
4. Michael Mwalaba (2019)
5. Kimara Naicker (2023)
6. Aidan Pellow-Jarman (2024)
7. Betony Adams (2024)
Teaching experience:
Undergraduate level teaching:
1. PHYS 151 – “Engineering Physics 1A” (Part2: Periodic Motion, Mechanical Waves, Sound, Elements of Thermal Physics; 1st-year lvl, 24 lec; 2017)
2. PHYS364/PHYS315 “Introduction to The Nuclear and Particle Physics” (24 periods, 3rd-year lvl, 2016 – 2022)
3. PHYS363 “Electrodynamics” (24 periods, 3rd-year lvl, 2022-2023)
Honours level teaching:
1. PHYS769/PHYS736 “Mathematical Methods” (24 lec, Hons lvl, Sem 1; 2010 – 2024)
2. PHYS702 “Quantum Mechanics” Part 2 (24 lec, Hons lvl, Sem 1; 2013, 2018-2023)
3. PHYS763 “Introduction to the Theory of Open Quantum Systems” (24 lec, Hons lvl, Sem 2; 2014)
4. PHYS703 “Statistical Mechanics” (24 lec. Hon lvl, 2015 – 2021)
5. PHYS701 “Classical Field Theory” (24 lec. Hon lvl, 2023-2024)
6. PHYS702 “Quantum Mechanics” Part 1 & Part 2 (48 lec, Hons lvl, Sem 1; 2024)
other teaching events:
1. Short course on “Open quantum systems” (6 lec, internship students, Hons lvl, June-July 2011)
2. Short course on “Quantum computation” (6 lec, internship students, Hons lvl, June-July 2011)
3. mini-course on “Foundations of Theoretical and Computational Open Quantum Systems” as part of the 2021 CHPC-NITheP Virtual Summer School video and git.
4. mini-course on “Introduction to Machine Learning ” (1 day) as part of “The 13th CHPC Coding Summer School & The 5th NITheCS Summer School on the Foundations of Theoretical and Computational Science” (30 January – 10 February 2023) school page & YouTube.
5. mini-course on “Introduction to Machine Learning ” (2 days) as part of “The 14th CHPC Coding Summer School and the 6th NITheCS Summer School on the Foundations of Theoretical and Computational Science” (29 January – 9 February 2024) school page & YouTube.
Contact Details:
Office : H3-20 (03-090)
Postal address: UKZN, School of Chemistry and Physics, Westville Campus
Private Bag X54001, Durban 4000, South Africa
Tel: +27 (0)31 2608133
e-mail: Sinayskiy@ukzn.ac.za