Andrew Jackson

I obtained my PhD at Warwick University, working with Animesh Datta and Theodoros Kapourniotis. There, my initial research interests focused on the advantage quantum computing can bring to the study of condensed matter physics, as classical computers struggle to model the time evolutions of quantum systems. As they are themselves quantum, it is expected that quantum computers can evade this limitation and hence to probe previously inaccessible physics.

However, NISQ (Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum) devices are noisy and hence severely limited in the computations they can implement, as well as having few qubits. To address this, I also developed accreditation protocols for analogue quantum simulators, to provide confidence in the the results they provide. I am currently working on implementing this protocol on QuEra's hardware, alongside investigations of approaches to quantum advantage based on quantum simulation and my accreditation protocol. An upgraded version of the analogue accreditation protocol is also in preparation.

Before moving to Warwick, I studied maths and physics at the University of York, where my dissertation was on the performance of greedy algorithms for NP-hard problems (supervised by Roger Colbeck). Whilst an undergrad, I also worked with Tim Spiller, Irene D'Amico, and Marta Estarellas on entanglement and state transfer in spin chains, as a summer research student.

I have auxiliary interests in both classical and quantum complexity theory.