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Jacob D. Biamonte

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

  • 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/
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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 (see axriv)

  • Adiabatic Quantum Simulators, J.D. Biamonte, V. Bergholm, J.D. Whitfield, J. Fitzsimons, and A. Aspuru-Guzik, (2010) arXiv:1002.0368.
  • Quantum Computing Resource Estimate of Molecular Energy Simulation, James D. Whitfield, Jacob Biamonte and Alán Aspuru-Guzik, (2010) arXiv:1001.3855.
  • Realizable Hamiltonians for universal adiabatic quantum computers, J.D. Biamonte and Peter J. Love,
    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)

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  • 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


Computing Labatory

Old Boston area address:

News

  • Jan 20, 2010 Pete Wilton interviewed me at OxSci Blog---went live here.
  • 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))
  • Missing a lot of news here!
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • 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

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