Jacob Biamonte

Research Group Leader
ISI Foundation
Via Alassio 11/c
10126 Torino, Italy
(+39) 011 6603090 ext. 202
Jacob.Biamonte[at]qubit.org

Research Interests

• Mathematical physics, network theory, tensor network states, chemical reaction networks
• Computational and Hamiltonian complexity theory, circuit theory and connections to condensed matter physics, adiabatic quantum computation
• Quantum algorithms to simulate many-body physics and ab initio chemistry on a quantum computer,
• Quantum network theory, mathematical network theory, chiral quantum walks

Biography

I lead the Theory Group at the ISI Foundation in Turin Italy.

• 150 word workshop/conference biography
• longer NSF style biography

Professional Memberships

• Azimuth Lune Project
• American Physical Society
• IEEE committee task force on quantum computing (invited)
• Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi)

Links

• My old St Peter’s College Oxford staff page
• My old page at Oxford University
• My old page at Harvard

Editorial Boards

• Frontiers in Physics
• Natural Computing
• Theoretical Computer Science
• Frontiers in Quantum Computing
• Journal of Complex Networks

Experience

• Guest lecturer, Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), University of Waterloo
• Lecturer in Physics, St Peter’s College, University of Oxford
• EPSRC Funded Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, University of Oxford
• Research Assistant, University of Oxford
• Doctorate from the University of Oxford
• Research Fellow, Harvard University
• Research Physicist/Consultant, D-Wave Systems, Inc. The Quantum Computing Company

A Few Talks

Invariant Theory for Matrix Product States, Networking Tensor Networks: many-body systems and simulations, May 2012, Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual, Benasque Spain. [Slides PPT and PDF]
Quantum versus Classical Network Structure and Function, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Science (IIIS), Center for Quantum Information (CQI), (2011). [PDF of slides]. [YouKu Video]
Penrose Graphical Notation for Tensor Network States, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Seminar Archive (PIRSA), (2011). [PDF of slides],http://pirsa.org/11080059/ (multiple media formats).

Books

• A Course on Quantum Techniques for Stochastic Mechanics
  with John Baez
  235 pages, (2012)
  http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3632
• Tensor Networks in Quantum Theory
  with Ville Bergholm
  152 pages, (2014) [draft version]

Five Representative Publications

• Categorical Tensor Network States
  with Stephen R.Clark and Dieter Jaksch
  AIP Advances 1(4), 042172 (2011)
• Racing a quantum computer through Minkowski spacetime
  J. Phys. Conf. Ser. Vol. 1. No. 229. Pages 012020. 2010.
• Towards quantum chemistry on a quantum computer
  with B. P. Lanyon et al.,
  Nature Chem. No. 2. Pages 106–111. 2010.
• Realizable Hamiltonians for universal adiabatic quantum computers
  with Peter J. Love
• Physical Review A 78‚ 012352. 2008.
  Non−perturbative k−body to two−body commuting conversion Hamiltonians and embedding problem instances into - Ising spins
  Physical Review A 77‚ 052331. 2008.
  For a complete publication list follow this link. For a list of the publications that the group has produced since I joined ISI in January of 2012, click here.