Sam Alterman

Graduate Student

Research
My research focuses on the connection between the quantum resources required for simulating a system and the underlying physics of that system, with a particular interest in measures of non-classicality such as engantlement, contextuality, and non-stabilizerness. I've previously worked on how quantum resources change when a quantum field theory is written in light-front coordinates, and I am currently working on the role of quantum resources in quantum chemistry. 

About Me

Prior to my PhD, 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, was a research scientist at MIT Lincoln Laboratory working on theory and simulation of NISQ systems.