Sam Alterman

Graduate Student

Research
My work is at the intersections of quantum information, high energy physics, and condensed matter. More specifically, I am investigating how quantum resources like entanglement and contextuality compare between the light-front and instant-time representations of quantum field theory, using the transverse-field Ising model as a test case.

About Me

Before starting my PhD at Tufts, I graduated from Williams College in 2018 with a BA in Physics, and wrote my thesis on Environmentally Assisted Quantum Transport with Prof. Fred Strauch. From 2018 to 2022, I was in the Quantum Information and Integrated Nanosystems group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where I worked on theory and simulation of NISQ systems.