Benjamin Brown
Postdoctoral Fellow, Quantum Physics
I work in quantum information, and more specifically on quantum error correction and fault-tolerant quantum computing (a project funded by a H2020 Marie S. Curie Individual Fellowship no. 897158, more information here)
This means I spend my time looking for the best ways to put together all of the noisy quantum components we can produce in the laboratory to make a working quantum computer that runs (almost) perfectly every time we use it.
As well as researching quantum error-correcting codes; the many-body quantum systems that will store quantum information robustly, I also work on decoding algorithms. These are classical algorithms that support quantum error-correcting codes.
Not only this but I also develop fault-tolerant quantum logic gates. These are dynamical processes that manipulate quantum information that is stored on a quantum error correcting code while still keeping track of the errors the quantum computer experiences as the gate progresses.