Stephen P. Jordan

I study all areas of quantum information, especially algorithms, complexity, and post-quantum cryptography. My current and recent projects include developing quantum algorithms and hardness results for approximating topological invariants, simulating chemistry and particle physics on quantum computers, and investigating alternative models of quantum computation, such as the adiabatic, permutational, and one-clean-qubit models.

I have been at NIST since April 2011. From 2008-2011 I was a postdoc at Caltech's Institute for Quantum Information. I spent the Summer of 2008 as a visiting scientist at RIKEN's Digital Materials Laboratory.

Most of my publications are available on my arxiv page.

The full text of my Science paper "Quantum algorithms for quantum field theories" can be accessed free of charge here. See also a podcast and a YouTube video.

I maintain the quantum algorithm zoo, a comprehensive list of quantum algorithms.

As an undergraduate I wrote some software to perform molecular dynamics simulations using the Tersoff-Brenner potential. You are free to download and modify the sourcecode. [License.]