Pratik Sathe

Senior Performance Researcher at D-Wave

Preprints:

  1. Pratik Sathe, Luis Pedro Garcia Pintos, Francesco Caravelli. “Quantum Uncertainty Relations for Thermodynamic Energy Flows” (2026). arxiv:2406.11974 [link] [PDF]
  2. Frank Barrows, Elijah Pelofske, Pratik Sathe, Francesco Caravelli, and Cristiano Nisoli. “Magnetic Memory and Hysteresis from Quantum Transitions: Theory and Experiments on Quantum Annealers” arxiv: 2507.18079. [link][PDF]
  3. Antonio Sannia, Pratik Sathe, Luis Pedro García-Pintos. “Uncovering and Circumventing Noise in Quantum Algorithms via Metastability” arxiv: 2511.09821. [link][PDF]
  4. Elijah Pelofske, Pratik Sathe, Cristiano Nisoli, Frank Barrows. “Probing Antiferromagnetic Hysteresis on Programmable Quantum Annealers” arxiv: 2511.17779. [link][PDF]
  5. George Grattan*, Pratik Sathe*, Cristiano Nisoli. “Classical Thermometry of Quantum Annealers” arXiv:2512.03162. [link][PDF]

Published papers (In chronological order)

  1. Mattia Serra, Pratik Sathe, Francisco Beron-Vera, and George Haller. “Uncovering the edge of the polar vortex” Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 74, no. 11 (2017): 3871-3885.[link][PDF]
  2. Mattia Serra, Pratik Sathe, Irina Rypina, Anthony Kirincich, Shane D. Ross, Pierre Lermusiaux, Arthur Allen, Thomas Peacock, and George Haller. “Search and rescue at sea aided by hidden flow structures” Nature communications 11, no. 1 (2020): 1-7. [link][PDF]
  3. Pratik Sathe, Fenner Harper, and Rahul Roy. “Compactly supported Wannier functions and strictly local projectors” Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 54.33 (2021): 335302. [link][PDF]
  4. Adrian B Culver, Pratik Sathe, Rahul Roy, “Scattering expansion for localization in one dimension: From disordered wires to quantum walks”, Physical Review B 109 (6), 064201, 2023 [link][PDF]
  5. Adrian B Culver, Pratik Sathe, Rahul Roy, “Scattering expansion for localization in one dimension”, Phys. Rev. B 109, L060201, 2023 [link][PDF]
  6. Pratik Sathe, Rahul Roy, “Compact Wannier functions in one dimension”, Phys. Rev. B 109, 155150, 2024. [link][PDF]
  7. Thomas Lubinski, Carleton Coffrin, Catherine McGeoch, Pratik Sathe, Joshua Apanavicius, David Bernal Neira, Quantum Economic Development Consortium, “Optimization applications as quantum performance benchmarks”, ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing 2024. [link][PDF]
  8. Pratik Sathe, Rahul Roy, “Topological triviality of flat Hamiltonians”, Phys. Rev. B 111, L041105, 2025. [link][PDF] ** [Editor’s suggestion]
  9. Avimita Chatterjee, Sonny Rappaport, Anish Giri, Sonika Johri, Timothy Proctor, David E Bernal Neira, Pratik Sathe, Thomas Lubinski, “A comprehensive cross-model framework for benchmarking the performance of quantum hamiltonian simulations”, IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering 2025. [link][PDF]
  10. Pratik Sathe, Francesco Caravelli, “Universally charging protocols for quantum batteries: A no-go theorem”, EuroPhysics Letters 2025. [link][PDF]
  11. David E. Bernal Neira, Robin Brown, Pratik Sathe, Filip Wudarski, Marco Pavone, Eleanor Rieffel and Davide Venturelli, “Benchmarking the operation of quantum heuristics and Ising machines: scoring parameter setting strategies on optimization applications”, Quantum Machine Intelligence 2025. [link][PDF]
  12. Adrian B. Culver, Pratik Sathe, Albert Brown, Fenner Harper, Rahul Roy, “Universal localization-delocalization transition in chiral-symmetric Floquet drives”, Phys. Rev. B 112, 104205, 2025. [link][PDF]
  13. Pratik Sathe, Francesco Caravelli, “Classical Criticality via Quantum Annealing”, Nature Communications volume 17, Article number: 856 (2026). [link][PDF]
  14. Elijah Pelofske, Frank Barrows, Pratik Sathe, Cristiano Nisoli, “Magnetic hysteresis experiments performed on quantum annealers”, Science Advances 2026. [link][PDF]