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<h1> Boris Mesits </h1>
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<h3>Hi! I'm Boris.</h3>
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Welcome to my website! I am a sixth-year graduate student working in the <a href='https://hatlab.yale.edu/'>Hatlab</a>, a quantum information
laboratory. I'm enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh, although my group has recently moved to Yale University, where I am spending some time as a Visiting Assistant in Research.
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It's been a wild ride! For me, quantum computers are fascinating for two reasons. First, they would allow us to probe interesting
physics questions, such as, "How does a complex molecule really behave?" and, "What is the fundamental nature of information?" Second, quantum computers
don't yet exist, and building one is a huge engineering puzzle that is fun to think about!
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When I'm not in the lab, I like to play soccer, play guitar, and explore the parks of New Haven.
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<h3>University of Pittsburgh <span class="image left"><img src="images/pitt.png" alt="" width="90" height="90" /></span> </h3>
<p> <b> August 2020 - Present </b> </p>
<p> Physics PhD </p>
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<h3>University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill <span class="image left"><img src="images/unc.png" alt="" width="90" height="90"/></span> </h3>
<p> <b> August 2016 - May 2020 </b> </p>
<p> B.S. Physics and Mathematics </p>
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<h3>Yale University <span class="image left"><img src="images/yale_logo.png" alt="" width="90" height="90" /></span> </h3>
<p> <b> October 2024 - Present </b> </p>
<p> Visiting Assistant in Research </p>
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<h3> Directional Quantum-limited Parametric Amplifiers <span class="image right"><img src="images/instruments.png" alt="" /></span> </h3>
<p> <b> Summer 2021 - Present </b> </p>
<p> I currently work in the <a href='https://hatlab.yale.edu/'>Hatlab</a>, a superconducting quantum information
group led by Dr. Michael Hatridge. My research activities currently focus on:
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<li> Building a new way to measure qubits and amplify the readout signal using <a href='https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14333'>pulsed parametric conversion</a>
<li> Trying new configurations of existing parametric amplifiers to <a href='https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12168'>exceed the standard quantum limit of measurement</a>
<li> Stabilizing the temperature of microwave electronics for qubit control and readout</li>
<li> Investigating new approaches for magnetometry using superconducting circuits</li>
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<h3> Earth's Field NMR <span class="image right"><img src="images/efnmr.jpg" alt="" /></span> </h3>
<p> <b> Fall 2018 - Spring 2020 </b> </p>
<p> I worked in <a href="https://brancagroup.web.unc.edu/">Dr. Tamara's Branca's biomedical physics lab</a> as an undergraduate. I owe my basic
experimental skills to my time in Tamara's group. I also picked up a lasting interest in magnetic resonance, which later played a role in my NSF Fellowship.
Incredibly, I had the privilege of doing outdoor condensed matter research! The spectrometer operates in the earth's magnetic field
and worked best away from magnetic noise caused by buildings and electrical lines.
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<h3> Computational Analysis of Ultrafast Laser Damage on Metal Surfaces <span class="image right"><img src="images/ttm.png" alt="" /></span> </h3>
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I spent two summers in Szeged, Hungary at the ELI-ALPS laser, building a small simulation for laser ablation of metal surfaces, which is interesting
for micromachining applications. I worked under the guidance of Dr. Subhendu Kahaly and Dr. Mousumi Upadhyay Kahaly. I am very
grateful for their mentorship at the start of my career, even though my current work is mostly unrelated.
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If you watch the milk swirl when you pour it in your coffee, you probably are like me.
Fluid dynamics is easy to formulate (it requires no quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, or relativity) yet so hard to understand.
A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier%E2%80%93Stokes_existence_and_smoothness"> million dollars </a> waits for the first person to solve
Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness, for example. A far less ambitious goal is the simulation of a 2D fluid undergoing
the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, a kind of turbulence that occurs when fluids shear.
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At some point I had the idea of writing Javascript applets to run physics simulations in the browser. Then I realized this was a
<a href=https://www.falstad.com/> solved problem</a>. Some of my ideas are still here, decaying into a programmatic high-entropy state.
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Weather balloons are a surprisingly accessible way to send sensors, cameras, and experiments into the stratosphere. Somehow some friends
and I succeeded in <a href="hab-page.html">measuring radiation levels at 94,000 feet</a> on a $1000 budget from the UNC Physics Department.
In 2023 I also tagged along with a Pitt expedition to measure shadow bands during solar eclipses. I did practically nothing but the hardworking
folks from the Pitt team put together a nice <a href='https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13335'>publication</a> with the results.
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