Aspuru-Guzik research group - Jacob D. Biamonte

Welcome to the homepage of Jake Biamonte. I am a Theoretical Physicist who among other things is a
Oxford University PhD student (listing/photo) supervised by Bob Coecke and Samson Abramsky
continued collaborator with the Aspuru-Guzik Group --- I regularly update this page
co-admin of Categories, Logic and Foundations of Physics, an increasingly popular community research page

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Home:

Wolfson College Oxford (Virtual Tour and Maps) (google Map)
Linton Road, OXFORD, OX2 6UD, United Kingdom.
Room number N205-B (Robin Gandy Building)
Home Phone: +44 (0) 1865 284 146
Cell Phone: +44 (0) 7975 619 452

Work:

Old Harvard address:

J.D. Biamonte,
Non-perturbative k-body to two-body commuting conversion Hamiltonians and embedding problem instances into Ising spins,
Physical Review A 77(5), 052331 (2008), arXiv:0801.3800. Also in
Virtual Journal of Quantum Information, Volume 8(6), (2008).

G. Yang et al., Four-level realization of 3-qubit reversible functions,
IET Computer & Digital Techniques, Volume 1(4), p. 382, (2007). Also in
Virtual Journal of Quantum Information, Volume 7(7), (2007).

J.D. Biamonte and Peter J. Love,
Realizable Hamiltonians for universal adiabatic quantum computers,
Physical Review A 77(5), (2008), arXiv:0704.1287.

R. Harris et al., Sign and magnitude tunable coupler for superconducting flux qubits,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 177001 (2007), cond-mat/0608253. Also in
Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, Volume 15(18), (2007). (link)

January 30 to February 1 2008: Will attend TQC 2008 at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo Japan. The meeting is sponsored by NTT Basic Research Laboratories.

December 12th, 2007: Attended QUOXIC (QUantum OXford Imperial College) meeting on Wednesday 12th December at Imperial College in the Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

December 10th, 2007: Created a wiki/blog for the new seminar series, Categories Logic and Foundations of Physics (link). We also have a facebook group.

Courses I plan to take Hilary 2008 (full course list) (list of all courses offered in Mathematical Institute)

Oct 2007: Started new facebook group: Quantum Information Scientists of the World Unite --- group is open to all QIP people.

Thursday 25th October 2007: I will attended the next QUOXIC (QUantum OXford Imperial College) meeting which will take place in Merton College, Oxford. The speakers will be: Peter Rohde (Oxford), Andreas Dring (Imperial), Simon Perdrix (Oxford) and Jamie Vicary (Imperial).

Upcoming event: (Link) I will give a talk about the theory of adiabatic quantum computation at the second QNET Workshop, happening December 10th & 11th 2007 at The Royal Society in London. (Thanks to Dr Ian Mackie as well as the other event organizers)

Oct 18, 2007: Now a member of the EPSRC Network ``Semantics of Quantum Computation.'' Membership (listed here) is through Oxford University.

Oct 13, 12 noon: Attended Matriculation Ceremony at Sheldonian Theatre and (officially) became a member of Oxford University. (Wikipedia pic of Oxford Matriculation)

C7.4a Theoretical Physics I (course homepage)
Course Lecturers: Prof John Chalker and Prof Andre Lukas, M.9, W.10, Th.9, Denis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building, Physics.

Analytic Topology in Mathematics and Computer Science
Prof Abramsky, Dr P J Collins, Dr Knight, Prof Priestley, Prof Roscoe and Dr Suabedissen, W.4-5.30, Mathematical Institute, L3

Oct 2007: Completed first aid training course for night time access to departmental facilities.

Oct 2007: Arrive in Oxford to begin my studies for a PhD --- I am very fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Samson Abramsky (see also wikipedia entry) and Prof. Bob Coecke. I already miss my friends in Cambridge MA and look forward to our continued collaboration.

July: James Whitfield presented a poster of the research Masoud, Alán and myself have worked on this summer. The poster was presented at UNAM (interesting fact: UNAM was founded in 1551).

I just realized that a paper I did some work on (about finding the cost of quantum gates) during my first stay (6/2004-9/2004) at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology appeared in the 12 (5-6), p. 561 (2006) issue of the Journal of Multiple-Valued Logic and Soft Computing. The list of authors includes Soonchil Lee, Seong-Joo Lee, Taegon Kim, Jae-Seung Lee, myself and Marek Perkowski---see also the KAIST solid state NMR group. Oh, BTW, that summer Robert B. Laughlin arrived.

Past event: The Lorentz Center will host a workshop called, "Computational Complexity of Quantum Hamiltonian Systems," from 23 Jul 2007 through 27 Jul 2007 (aim of the workshop)---Peter J. Love will present work on Realizable Hamiltonians for Universal AQCs.

I will give a talk 1 June: The Oxford Advanced Seminar on Informatic Structures, the title of the talk is, "Some Models of Quantum Computation." The OASIS series is organized by Prof. Bob Coecke.

11 April 2007, Dr. Geordie Rose (CEO and founder of D-Wave Systems Inc.) announces the paper, "Realizable Hamiltonians for Universal Adiabatic Quantum Computers" on his blog.

Last update 2007