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|Biography=I'm a research fellow at the Centre for Mathematical Modelling in Flame University. At present, I'm working on applications of nonequilibrium fluctuation theorems to conformal field theories as well as to physical models of logically reversible computing. Additionally, I'm examining the dynamics and conservation laws of solitons in superconductors and superconducting circuits, with a view towards physical structures that could support reversible computing.
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|Biography=I'm a (post-master's) research fellow at the Centre for Mathematical Modelling at Flame University. My interests lie at the intersection of conformal field theory, geometric phenomena in quantum systems, quantum thermodynamics, and condensed matter theory. In particular, I'm deeply interested in the properties of conformal field theories (CFTs) out of equilibrium, and the ways by which nonequilibrium CFT phenomena manifest in condensed matter models. I'm also interested in the geometric properties of Lindbladians in open quantum systems and their applications to condensed matter systems, particularly CFTs with nondegenerate steady state spaces. Finally, I'm interested in the consequences that renormalisation group transformations have for resource theories.
  
More broadly, my research interests lie at the intersection of topological quantum field theory, finite-temperature and nonequilibrium quantum many-body theory, and quantum condensed matter theory. In particular, I'm deeply interested in the properties of topological quantum field theories at finite temperature and under nonequilibrium conditions, as well as the ways by which they manifest condensed matter systems. I'm especially interested in the analytic and algebraic properties of such models, as well as the kinds of model Hamiltonians that can be constructed to support such models. (These models are extremely relevant for topological quantum computing, since these models describe the physics of the systems in which we encode qubits.) I'm also deeply interested in the analytic properties of nonequilibrium Green functions, and their applications to problems in condensed matter systems.
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At present, my current work focuses on the consequences conformal invariance can have for resource theories, as well as the lessons resource theories can have for conformally invariant systems. Recent results by Bernamonti et al. for holographic second laws and Guarnieri et al. for relationships between stochastic quantum work techniques and resource theories have substantial implications for physical models of CFTs. Currently, I'm investigating the consequences these results have for conformally invariant systems, such as the SYK model.
  
Before my current appointment, I received my M.Sc. in physics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2016, and my B.Sc. in physics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2014. There, I worked on optoelectronic phenomena on the surfaces of topological insulators; in particular examining phenomena such as the photogalvanic effect on the surfaces of topological insulators at zero and finite temperature.
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These results have direct applications to the thermodynamics of computation. Topological quantum computing is a framework for quantum computing that relies on encoding qubits in anyons, which are quasiparticle excitations that arise in certain conformal field theories. More broadly, the reversible computing paradigm relies on preserving system-memory correlations, which has a natural language in terms of resource theories. At present, I'm working alongside Michael P. Frank to develop physical models which can support reversible computing, with information flow and specifically system-memory correlations expressed in terms of resource theories.
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Before my current appointment, I received my M.Sc. in physics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2016, and my B.Sc. in physics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2014. There, I worked under Di Xiao on optoelectronic phenomena on the surfaces of topological insulators, in particular examining properties of the photogalvanic effect on the surfaces of topological insulators at zero and finite temperature.
 
|Fields of Research=General Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics; Logically Reversible Computing; Quantum Thermodynamics and Information Processing
 
|Fields of Research=General Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics; Logically Reversible Computing; Quantum Thermodynamics and Information Processing
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Revision as of 14:16, April 12, 2019

Biography: I'm a (post-master's) research fellow at the Centre for Mathematical Modelling at Flame University. My interests lie at the intersection of conformal field theory, geometric phenomena in quantum systems, quantum thermodynamics, and condensed matter theory. In particular, I'm deeply interested in the properties of conformal field theories (CFTs) out of equilibrium, and the ways by which nonequilibrium CFT phenomena manifest in condensed matter models. I'm also interested in the geometric properties of Lindbladians in open quantum systems and their applications to condensed matter systems, particularly CFTs with nondegenerate steady state spaces. Finally, I'm interested in the consequences that renormalisation group transformations have for resource theories.

At present, my current work focuses on the consequences conformal invariance can have for resource theories, as well as the lessons resource theories can have for conformally invariant systems. Recent results by Bernamonti et al. for holographic second laws and Guarnieri et al. for relationships between stochastic quantum work techniques and resource theories have substantial implications for physical models of CFTs. Currently, I'm investigating the consequences these results have for conformally invariant systems, such as the SYK model.

These results have direct applications to the thermodynamics of computation. Topological quantum computing is a framework for quantum computing that relies on encoding qubits in anyons, which are quasiparticle excitations that arise in certain conformal field theories. More broadly, the reversible computing paradigm relies on preserving system-memory correlations, which has a natural language in terms of resource theories. At present, I'm working alongside Michael P. Frank to develop physical models which can support reversible computing, with information flow and specifically system-memory correlations expressed in terms of resource theories.

Before my current appointment, I received my M.Sc. in physics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2016, and my B.Sc. in physics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2014. There, I worked under Di Xiao on optoelectronic phenomena on the surfaces of topological insulators, in particular examining properties of the photogalvanic effect on the surfaces of topological insulators at zero and finite temperature.

Field(s) of Research: General Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics, Logically Reversible Computing, Quantum Thermodynamics and Information Processing

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