Stephan Hoyer
I am a second year Ph.D. student in physics at UC Berkeley.
Originally from Portland, Oregon, I graduated from Swarthmore College in 2008 with a B.A. in physics with High Honors and Phi Beta Kappa.
Research Interests
I am part of the Whaley Group in the Berkeley Quantum Information & Computation Center and is working on the quantum mechanics of photosynthesis from the perspective of quantum information theory.
As an undergraduate, I worked with David Meyer at UCSD on algorithms with discrete time quantum walks.
More broadly, I am interested in applied theoretical physics.
Publications
- Stephan Hoyer and David A. Meyer. Faster transport with a directed quantum walk. Phys. Rev. A 79, 024307 (2009).
- arXiv:0901.1007 [quant-ph].
- Selected for publication in the Virtual Journal of Quantum Information.
- Mathematica source for Fig. 2.
- Stephan Hoyer, Mohan Sarovar and K. Birgitta Whaley. Limits of quantum speedup in photosynthetic light harvesting. Submitted.
- arXiv:0910.1847 [quant-ph].
Talks
- Quantum random walks in energy landscapes. Workshop on Quantum Effects in Biological Systems (QuEBS 2009), Lisbon, Portugal (July 2009).
Chromophores and their electronic coupling strengths in the FMO complex of green sulfur bacteria.
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Anderson localization in a 1D continuous time quantum walk.
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Writing from Swarthmore
- Thesis: Quantum random walk search on satisfiability problems
- Math senior conference paper: Classification of completely positive maps
- Just for fun: Physical eschatology and life in the distant universe
Contact
Department address
Stephan Hoyer
Department of Physics
366 LeConte Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-7300
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