Adam Gammon-Smith

Contact

• workPhysics
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• Adam.Gammon-Smith@nottingham.ac.uk
• https://adamsmith-physics.github.io

Biography

I am a condensed matter theorist interested primarily in non-equilibrium quantum dynamics, particularly quantum quenches of lattice models. I am also interested in topologically ordered systems, quantum computation and machine learning. My current research focus is on using quantum computers and tools from machine learning to study many-body quantum physics.

I was award an ERC Starting Grant in 2023.

In 2020 I was awarded a research fellowship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. Previously I was at the Technische Universität München in the group of Frank Pollmann. Before this I was a research associate at Imperial College London with Prof. Myungshik Kim and Dr. Johannes Knolle. This position was part of a collobaration between Imperial College and Samsung to simulate quantum systems with the IBM quantum computers. I completed my PhD entitled "Disorder-free Localization" at the University of Cambridge with Dr. Dmitry Kovrizhin. Before that I studied for a Masters in Physics at Cambridge, and did my undergraduate studies at the University of Leeds.

Teaching Summary

I am currently teaching the following modules at the University of Nottingham:

• PHYS4041 - Introduction to Practical Quantum Computing
• PHYS4038 - Scientific Programming in Python (led by Mike Smith)

Previous courses:

• Advanced methods in quantum many-body theory (topic: topological quantum field theory) - TU Munich 2020

I have taught at the following graduate schools:

• ETN Tensor Network School 2023 - Abingdon (topic: Tensor networks to quantum circuits and back again)
• Topological Matter School 2022 - San Sebastián (topic: Non-abelian anyons: the basics of topological quantum field theory)
• School on Topological Phases in Condensed Matter and Ultracold Atoms Systems (IESC) 2022 - Cargèse (topic: Non-abelian anyons: the basics of topological quantum field theory)
• IMPRS-MPSSE Summer School 2021 - MPI-PKS Dresden (topic: Quantum computing on NISQ devices)

Research Summary

I am primarily interested in non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body systems. My recent focus is on using quantum computers and tools from machine learning to study condensed matter physics.

You can find more details on my personal website

Recent Publications

• PAPAEFSTATHIOU, IRENE, SMITH, ADAM and KNOLLE, JOHANNES, 2020. Disorder-free localization in a simple U (1) lattice gauge theory PHYSICAL REVIEW B. 102(16),
• OMRI GOLAN, ADAM SMITH and ZOHAR RINGEL, 2020. Intrinsic sign problem in fermionic and bosonic chiral topological matter Physical Review Research. 2, 043032
• ADAM SMITH, OMRI GOLAN and ZOHAR RINGEL, 2020. Intrinsic Sign Problems in Topological Quantum Field Theories Physical Review Research. 2, 033515
• SMITH, ADAM, ICNOLLE, JOHANNES, MOESSNER, RODERICH and KOVRIZHIN, DMITRY L., 2019. Logarithmic Spreading of Out-of-Time-Ordered Correlators without Many-Body Localization PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. 123(8),

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• PAPAEFSTATHIOU, IRENE, SMITH, ADAM and KNOLLE, JOHANNES, 2020. Disorder-free localization in a simple U (1) lattice gauge theory PHYSICAL REVIEW B. 102(16),
• OMRI GOLAN, ADAM SMITH and ZOHAR RINGEL, 2020. Intrinsic sign problem in fermionic and bosonic chiral topological matter Physical Review Research. 2, 043032
• ADAM SMITH, OMRI GOLAN and ZOHAR RINGEL, 2020. Intrinsic Sign Problems in Topological Quantum Field Theories Physical Review Research. 2, 033515
• SMITH, ADAM, ICNOLLE, JOHANNES, MOESSNER, RODERICH and KOVRIZHIN, DMITRY L., 2019. Logarithmic Spreading of Out-of-Time-Ordered Correlators without Many-Body Localization PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. 123(8),
• SMITH, ADAM, KIM, M. S., POLLMANN, FRANK and KNOLLE, JOHANNES, 2019. Simulating quantum many-body dynamics on a current digital quantum computer NPJ QUANTUM INFORMATION. 5,
• SMITH, ADAM, KNOLLE, JOHANNES, MOESSNER, RODERICH and KOVRIZHIN, DMITRY L., 2018. Dynamical localization in Z(2) lattice gauge theories PHYSICAL REVIEW B. 97(24),
• SMITH, ADAM, KOVRIZHIN, DMITRY L., MOESSNER, RODERICH and KNOLLE, JOHANNES, 2018. Dynamics of a lattice gauge theory with fermionic matter-minimal quantum simulator with time-dependent impurities in ultracold gases QUANTUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. 3(4),
• SMITH, A., KNOLLE, J., KOVRIZHIN, D. L. and MOESSNER, R., 2017. Disorder-Free Localization PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. 118(26),
• SMITH, A., KNOLLE, J., MOESSNER, R. and KOVRIZHIN, D. L., 2017. Absence of Ergodicity without Quenched Disorder: From Quantum Disentangled Liquids to Many-Body Localization PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. 119(17),
• SMITH, A., KNOLLE, J., KOVRIZHIN, D. L., CHALKER, J. T. and MOESSNER, R., 2016. Majorana spectroscopy of three-dimensional Kitaev spin liquids PHYSICAL REVIEW B. 93(23),
• ADAM SMITH, JOHANNES KNOLLE, DMITRY L. KOVRIZHIN, JOHN T. CHALKER and RODERICH MOESSNER, 2015. Neutron scattering signatures of the 3D hyperhoneycomb Kitaev quantum spin liquid Physical Review B. 92, 180408(R)