Steven Thomson
EPSRC Fellow
Research Interests:
Quantum simulation,
Many-body physics,
Condensed matter,
Non-equilibrium dynamics,
Entanglement
Dr Steven Thomson is an EPSRC Open Fellow in the School of Physics & Astronomy, working at the intersection of quantum computing and many-body physics. He is interested in hybrid approaches combining quantum computers and classical high-performance computing, as well as in developing novel algorithms and techniques for quantum devices to solve classically challenging problems in many-body physics.
He has previously been a Research Scientist at IBM Quantum, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin (Eisert group), and has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Ecole Polytechnique (Sanchez-Palencia group), as well as at CEA Paris-Saclay and Collège de France (Schirò group). He obtained his PhD from the University of St Andrews in 2016.
Featured Publications:
Unravelling quantum dynamics using flow equations, Nature Phys. 20, 1401 (2024), [link]
Spreading of correlations and entanglement in the long-range transverse Ising chain, Phys. Rev. Research 3, L012022 (2021), [link]
Local quench spectroscopy of many-body quantum systems, Phys. Rev. A 102, 033337 (2020), [link]
Grants and awards
2024: EPSRC Open Fellowship 'Disorder in Open Quantum Systems'
2022: Unitary Fund Microgrant to start the insideQuantum podcast (www.insidequantum.org)
2022: NVIDIA Academic Hardware Grant
2021: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship 'Ergodicity Breaking in Quantum Matter'