We have the pleasure to welcome John Sous, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics, as our newest, and 30th YQI member
John is a theorist who works at the interfaces between condensed matter and quantum simulation. His research aims to develop methods to understand the behavior of static systems with large degrees of freedom such as quantum solids and artificial quantum simulators as well as dynamical systems such as nonlinearly driven optical materials and neural networks. He progresses in this research by developing and advancing quantum information theoretic algorithms which take advantage of the entanglement structure of quantum systems, namely tensor networks. Current projects include study of conditions which enable efficient classical simulation of 2D boson-coupled fermionic systems as well the extensions to isolate the regimes where quantum advantage and volume-law entanglement become operative.
For more information about his work, visit his research group website.