I am currently a PhD student, supervised by Animesh Datta, in the quantum information group at the University of Warwick. Before coming 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.

My initial research interests focused principally on the advantages quantum computing can bring to the study of condensed matter physics in the near-ish term.
Historically, classical computers have struggled to model the time evolution and essentially all properties of strongly correlated quantum systems. As it is itself quantum, it is expected that a quantum computer can evade this limitation and allow us to probe previously inaccessible physics.
However, NISQ (Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum) devices are, as the name suggests, very noisy and hence are severely limited in the depth of circuits they can implement, as well as having few qubits. This creates issues for our hopes of examining strongly correlated systems as such devices may struggle with the algorithms we wish to use.
In my PhD, I aim to produce algorithms to implement the time evolution, and compute other properties of strongly correlated systems, with a particular interest in the Hubbard model, whilst keeping the requirements on the device executing the algorithm feasible for the near term.

More recently I've been working on upgrading accreditation protocols and translating them for analogue quantum simulators.
I have auxiliary interests in both classical and quantum complexity theory.

Recent Publications

• [A. Jackson, T. Kapourniotis, A. Datta. Phys. Rev. A 107, 012421 (2023)]Link opens in a new window
• [A. Jackson, T. Kapourniotis, A. Datta. arXiv:2306.03060]Link opens in a new window

Email: andrew.jackson.1@warwick.ac.uk

ORCID: 0000-0002-5981-1604

Address: Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL