Prof Paul D Stevenson Academic Website
I am a Professor in the School of Maths and Physics of the University of Surrey, member of the Nuclear Physics Group and the Quantum Foundations and Technology group, and an AWE William Penney Fellow.
My research is mainly in theoretical nuclear physics and quantum computing, with some occasional projects in quantum biology and chemsitry, and in computational methods. Further details can be found in the Research tabs, with a full list of outputs in the Publications tab.
I write a blog about nuclear physics (loosely) called blog of the isotopes and contribute occassionally to blogs about plotting, and the Physics Department’s blog.
See also my official University of Surrey Page page.
You can contact me on p.stevenson@surrey.ac.uk
Latest News Post (click on title to expand):
A Comment on Li et al.
Published:
A recent paper by Li et al. introduced a variance minimization quantum algorithm. As one of their examples, they took a much-used nuclear physics case: A one-body model of the deuteron. Unfortunately, their presentation was a bit problematic, so I wrote a comment to submit to the journal (Physica Scripta) to try to correct the record. The comment was rejected by the editor, so I present the comment here instead, for the record - link at end of post. I would have put it on the arXiv, but they don’t publish comments of papers unless those papers are in the arXiv.