The Department of Physics and Astronomy is looking to appoint a Post-doctoral Research Associate to work on the EPSRC funded project "Towards fault-tolerant quantum computing with minimal resources" under direction of Dr Earl Campbell.

The project's goal is to quantify and reduce the resource cost of fault-tolerance protocols in quantum computation. The appointment is initially for 3 years. The project will leverage tools from physics, mathematics and computer science, and so applicants are welcomed with a training from any of these backgrounds. You will combine analytic insights with intensive numerical simulation to determine resource costs of quantum error correction, magic state distillation or gauge-fixing, gate compilation, etc. Concepts from topology and homology theory will be used to explore the merits of exotic quantum codes beyond the well known toric code. You will have, or be about to obtain a PhD (or have equivalent experience), in quantum computing theory or a related research field.

Informal enquiries can me made to Dr Earl Campbell via e.campbell@sheffield.ac.uk. Applications must be processed through University of Sheffield jobs page (http://tinyurl.com/o2tove2) where the position is listed under reference UOS010923.

Planned start date: 1st October 2015