Jacob D. Biamonte

Welcome to the homepage of Jacob Biamonte. I am a Theoretical Physicist with research interest in the foundations of computation who among other things is a

• Oxford University PhD student (listing/photo) supervised by Bob Coecke and Samson Abramsky
• continued collaborator with Harvards Aspuru-Guzik Group
• co-admin of Categories, Logic and Foundations of Physics
• a thankful recipient of an EPSRC funded studentship: coauthor (with Blakey, Coecke and Ouaknine) of successful EPSRC grant EP/G003017/1, Complexity and Decidability in Unconventional Computational Models.

• News: Sponsored event funded by EPSRC grant EP/G003017/1: Complexity Resources in Physical Computation, Monday 24 — Wednesday 26 August, 2009, Oxford. http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/CRPC09/

• Email: solve this CAPTCHA to view my email address.

My pages on this domain include

• Links
• Category Theory
• Algebras and Groups
• Introduction to Quantum Computing

Research Interests

• Applications of Category Theory to Quantum Theory, Computer Science and to Physics
• Classical and Quantum Computational complexity theory (zoo)
• Relativity and Computation

Papers (on axriv)

• J.D. Biamonte, The Computational Power of Minkowski Spacetime, arXiv:0907.1579 (2009).

• Benjamin P. Lanyon, James D. Whitfield, Geoff G. Gillet, Michael E. Goggin, Marcelo P. Almeida, Ivan Kassal, Jacob D. Biamonte, Masoud Mohseni, Ben J. Powell, Marco Barbieri, Alán Aspuru-Guzik and Andrew G. White,
  Towards molecular energy calculations on a quantum computer,
  Accepted, Nature Chem.
  http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.0887 (2009).

• J.D. Biamonte and Peter J. Love,
  Realizable Hamiltonians for universal adiabatic quantum computers,
  Physical Review A 78(1), 012352 (2008), arXiv:0704.1287.
  August 11, 2008 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.
  August 2008 issue of Virtual Journal of Quantum Information.
  10.1103/PhysRevA.78.012352

• 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).
  10.1103/PhysRevA.77.052331

• 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).

• 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)

Patents

• Panted in 180 countries: Physical Realizations of a universal adiabatic quantum computer, US (60/910,445) and International Patent (WO/2008/122128), (2008).

Teaching Duties (Minerva1) (Minerva2)

• HT 2008-9 Math C7.2b General Relativity (course material from last year)
• HT 2008-9 Math C7.1b Quantum Theory and Quantum Computers, Lectures given by KC Hannabuss. (old course webpage here)
  * I was TA for Prof Hannabuss.
• Category Theory

• MT 2008-9 Math B7.2a Special Relativity and Electromagnetism (course material)
  * Lectures given by Prof Xenia de la Ossa. I was TA for Prof A Hodges.
• MT 2008-9 Math B7.1a Quantum Mechanics. (course website), Lectures given by KC Hannabuss.
  * I was TA for Prof Hannabuss and TA for Prof Paul Tod.

• HT 2007-8 CCS3b Quantum Computer Science, lectures given by Bob Coecke.
  * I was the course Tutor and gave two lectures.

Current Oxford Mailing Address/Contact

• (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) Oxford University Computing Laboratory,
  Wolfson Building, Parks Road, OXFORD, OX1 3QD, United Kingdom. (directions) (google map)
  Room number 350
  Direct: +44 (0)1865 283574
  Department: +44 (0)1865 273838
  Fax: +44 (0)1865 273839
  My personal private wiki login.
  Math department contact details

Computing Labatory

Old Boston area address:

• Harvard University
  Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
  12 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA (google map) (campus map)
  Room number M110
  Office Direct: (+1) 617-496-7101
  Fax: 496-9411
• Aspuru-Guzik group private wiki login

News

• I will attend: Spanish Relativity Meeting - ERE 2009, from the 7th to 11th September, 2009 at the Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, UPV/EHU in Bilbao (Basque Country, Spain).

• I will attend: Midlands Graduate School 2009 on the Mathematical Foundations of Computing Science, It will be held this year in Leicester, UK, on Monday 30th March to Friday 3rd April. http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/mgs2009/

• I will attend: QUROPE09 International School, "Quantum Information and Many-Body Systems" 3rd May - 17th May 2009, Cortona, Italy. http://qurope09.sns.it/

• Nature Physics news article appeared related to the recent developments in perturbation theory by Bravyi, DiVincenzo, Loss and Terhal (Nature Physics 4, 834 - 835 (2008))

• November 2008: Became of member of the International Association of Mathematical Physics

• Courses taken MT 2008 (full course list) (list of all courses offered in Mathematical Institute)

• Group Theory lectured by Prof. Andre Lukas.

• The new Category Theory Course.

• Missing a lot of news here!

• 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.

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

• C7.4b: Theoretical Physics II.

• 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)

• Courses I am taking Michaelmas 2007 (full course list)

• C3.1a: Lie Groups (course material), Prof. U. Tillmann, W.3, Th.4, Mathematical Institute, L2. (Related course: Lie Algebras, Prof. J. Wilson)

• CCS1a: Categories, Proofs and Processes
  N. Tzevelekos (internal course materials link), M,Th.3 (weeks 1-8), M.4 (weeks 5-8), Computing Laboratory. 2006 course page

• 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.

• Research group meetings (Michaelmas 2007)

• 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

• Analysis of Informatic Phenomena, Prof Coecke, F.2, Computing Laboratory.

• Quantum Field Theory
  Prof. Hannabuss and Dr Tsou, T.12, 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 2009