Prof P Drummond, Prof M Reid
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Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
About the Project
The search for new quantum computers designed to outperform any classical computer is driven by the ending of Moore’s law and the great quantum advantages potentially obtainable. Boson sampling photonic networks are promising examples of this. In this project you will develop a simulation of a boson sampling quantum computer with realistic noise and losses. The goal is to evaluate novel signatures for the operation of this quantum computer. Input data on decoherence will come from experiments. These are underway both at Oxford University and Sapienza Universita di Roma in Italy. In the second part of the project, you will analyse the largest quantum computer in the world: the Stanford/Tokyo Ising machine. But can it outperform classical computers at NP-hard optimization? The purpose of this project is to develop a numerical quantum simulator for a simplified model of the Ising machine, evaluate how fast it can find minima for a classically hard optimization landscape, and determine if this is a true quantum effect.. An alternative hardware model is the XY machine, which uses a different symmetry in the photonic interaction, and is being investigated at the Weizmann Institute. This hardware will also be treated.
This PhD position will be based in the Computational Physics group within the Centre for Quantum and Optical Science at Swinburne University of Technology. Advanced computational facilities available include the SUT gSTAR supercomputer with high-performance GPU nodes, and local workstations. Our Centre is one of three research centres in physics at Swinburne, which was placed in the top 75 universities worldwide for Physics research in the 2014 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). Swinburne University is located in Hawthorn, 8 km from the centre of Melbourne, recently ranked as the world’s most livable city.
If you have any questions, please, contact Prof Peter Drummond ([Email Address Removed]).
Details of our research group including recent projects, present PhD students and staff members and can be found here:
http://www.swinburne.edu.au/engineering/caous/theory
Funding Notes
For this position we are seeking an enthusiastic PhD candidate with a background in Physics (Honours/Masters degree or equivalent) willing to learn the fundamental principles of physics through advanced theoretical and computational techniques.
Interested applicants should send a short CV and an expression of interest to Prof Peter Drummond ([Email Address Removed]).
Scholarships are available to cover all costs of tuition and a tax-free stipend of 28,000 AUD
per year, together with computer and conference funding.
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