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

• Oxford University PhD student (listing/photo) supervised by Bob Coecke and Samson Abramsky
• Part-time College Lecturer in Physics at St Peter's College
• 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 (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.

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

• Towards molecular energy calculations on a quantum computer, 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,
  Nature Chemistry 2, 106 - 111 (2009)
  doi:10.1038/nchem.483
  http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.0887 (2009).

• 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)

• 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

• 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))

• 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