PhD Studentship: Recalibrating Quantum Advantage for the Simulation of Chemical Reactions

A funded 4-year joint PhD between King's College London and the National Physical Laboratory is available for methodological developments into quantum algorithms for realistic electronic structure. This ambitious PhD project will work at the intersection of classical and quantum algorithm development, to devise scalable and robust quantum algorithms for the simulation of chemistry and physical processes over reactive timescales. The project will consider a grand challenge of simulating photo-induced reactivity of molecular processes, leveraging quantum devices and data-driven inference for the end-to-end simulation of non-adiabatic wave function dynamics over realistic timescales. The candidate will be embedded in an active research environment at both KCL and NPL's Quantum Software and Modelling team at its Teddington campus. The project will challenge the candidate to develop and apply both quantum and data-driven classical algorithms for many-body physics and molecular simulation, and connect quantum software design with industrial application, equipping the student with a combination of expertise in these different domains.