I want to understand the foundations of quantum mechanics through mathematical work that’s motivated by a deliberate philosophy of science. If that approach interests you, come work with me.
I’m a senior research scientist at the Physics & Informatics Lab at NTT Research, which is committed to blue-sky research and student mentorship. Short- and long-term positions are available for postdocs, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students. It’s even possible to do your university dissertation research at NTT with the approval of your university. (That’s how I studied under Wojciech Zurek at Los Alamos National Lab.)
If you already know what you want to research, awesome; let’s talk and we’ll see if our interests overlap. If not, my collaborators and I have a bunch of projects at varying levels of maturity that you could develop or riff on. To give you an idea:
- If you like functional or semiclassical analysis, see the “Future Work” section of this.
- If you’re interested in simulation of open quantum systems, let’s write an extension to QuTiP that slashes computational resources by using adaptive symplectic frames; see the unfinished work alluded to in Sec. VI.2 of arXiv:1704.05369.
- If you want to get a bird’s eye view of the consistent histories formalism, let’s extend this post into a proper review.
- If you have experience with tensor network simulations, let’s show that classical sampling of branches can deliver real compute savings, building off my former student Jordan Taylor’s awesome proof of concept; see the “Future Work” section in a forthcoming paper and his thesis.
- If you’re as obsessed with the foundations of wavefunction branches as me, help me write the definitive branch problem statement, or understand the connection between branches and quantum error correction.
You can contact me by email or twitter. The NTT Research internship page gives more information about interning at NTT, whether with me or a colleague, and is not limited to the summer months.
