Campbell, Earl, Professor

Professor Earl Campbell

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Professor of Quantum Computation

e.campbell@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 4288

Hicks Building

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Professor Earl Campbell
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Hicks Building
Hounsfield Road
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S3 7RH

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The quintessentially quantum features of nature are superposition and entanglement of quantum states.

I am interested in how these properties can be exploited to realise practical quantum technologies with capabilities beyond those allowed by classical, pre-20th century understanding of physics. See the research tab for more information.

My research team has one postdoc (Mark Howard) and one PhD student (Luke Heyfron).

Career history

Research Fellow funded by Royal Commission of Great Exhibition of 1851 (2008-2010, University College London)
Research Associate (2010-2013, Potsdam University and Frei University Berlin, Germany)
Research Associate (2014-2015, University of 91ֱ��)
EPSRC early career Research Fellow (2015-, University of 91ֱ��)

Qualifications

Physics & Philosophy MSc (2001-2005, Bristol University)
Quantum computing PhD (2005-2008, Oxford University)

Research interests

Architectures for fault-tolerant quantum computing
Topological error correcting codes
Magic states
Gate synthesis
Majorana fermions and anyonic quantum computing
Non-locality and foundations of quantum mechanics
Qudit quantum computation

The central question behind my research programme is 'What are the optimal blue-prints for large-scale, reliable quantum technologies?'.

My main focus is fault-tolerance of quantum computation. My group designs protocols and software needed to operate future quantum computers, ensuring they would work reliably despite noise and decoherence.

This includes development of error correction codes and decoders, design of magic state factories and compilation of algorithms into machine level commands.

Magic state factories determine the processing speed of a quantum computers, so can be considered analogous to the CPU of conventional devices.

Publications

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Featured publications

Journal articles

Campbell E (2019) . Physical Review Letters, 123(7).
Howard M & Campbell E (2017) . Physical Review Letters, 118.
Campbell E & Howard M (2017) . Physical Review Letters, 118.
Campbell ET (2014) . Physical Review Letters, 113(23).

All publications

Journal articles

Campbell E (2023) . Physical Review X, 13, 031007-031007.
Frembs M, Roberts S, Campbell ET & Bartlett SD (2023) . New Journal of Physics, 25.
Quintavalle AO, Vasmer M, Roffe J & Campbell ET (2021) . PRX Quantum, 2(2).
Crawford O, van Straaten B, Wang D, Parks T, Campbell E & Brierley S (2021) . Quantum, 5.
Ouyang Y & Campbell ET (2021) . IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 1-1.
Bravyi S, Browne D, Calpin P, Campbell E, Gosset D & Howard M (2019) . Quantum, 3.
Campbell E (2019) . Physical Review Letters, 123(7).
Campbell E, Khurana A & Montanaro A (2019) . Quantum, 3.
Seddon JR & Campbell ET (2019) . Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 475(2227).
Campbell E (2019) . Quantum Science and Technology, 4(2).
Campbell E & Heyfron L (2018) . Quantum Science and Technology, 4(1).
Campbell E & Howard M (2018) . Quantum, 2.
Campbell E, Terhal B & Vuillot C (2017) . Nature, 549, 172-179.
Breuckmann N, Vuillot C, Campbell E, Krishna A & Terhal B (2017) . Quantum Science and Technology, 2.
Kok P, Pearce ME & Campbell ET (2017) . Quantum, 1, 21-21.
Herold M, Kastoryano M, Campbell E & Eisert J (2017) . New Journal of Physics, 19.
Campbell E (2017) . Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, 95(4).
Campbell E (2017) . Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, 95.
Howard M & Campbell E (2017) . Physical Review Letters, 118.
Campbell E & Howard M (2017) . Physical Review A, 95.
Campbell E & Howard M (2017) . Physical Review Letters, 118.
Campbell E & O'Gorman J (2016) . Quantum Science & Technology, 1, 015007-015007.
Waeldchen S, Gertis J, Campbell ET & Eisert J (2016) . Physical Review Letters, 116(2).
Herold M, Campbell ET, Eisert J & Kastoryano MJ (2015) . npj Quantum Information, 1(1).
Watson FHE, Campbell ET, Anwar H & Browne DE (2015) . Physical Review A, 92(2).
Campbell ET (2014) . Physical Review Letters, 113(23).
Bengtsson I, Blanchfield K, Campbell E & Howard M (2014) . Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 47(45), 455302-455302.
Campbell ET, Hoban MJ & Eisert J (2014) Majorana fermions and non-locality. Quantum Information and Computation, 14(11-12), 981-995.
CAMPBELL ET & FITZSIMONS J (2010) . International Journal of Quantum Information, 08(01n02), 219-258.
CAMPBELL ET (2010) . International Journal of Quantum Information, 08(01n02), 161-180.
Ali H, Marques J, Crawford O, Majaniemi J, Serra-Peralta M, Byfield D, Varbanov B, Terhal BM, DiCarlo L & Campbell ET () . Physical Review Applied, 22(4).
Gehér GP, McLauchlan C, Campbell ET, Moylett AE & Crawford O () . Quantum, 8, 1394-1394.
Gehér GP, Crawford O & Campbell ET () . PRX Quantum, 5(1).
Campbell E () . Nature Reviews Physics.
Sünderhauf C, Campbell E & Camps J () . Quantum, 8, 1226-1226.
Blunt NS, Caune L, Izsák R, Campbell ET & Holzmann N () . PRX Quantum, 4(4).
Skoric L, Browne DE, Barnes KM, Gillespie NI & Campbell ET () . Nature Communications, 14(1).
Roffe J, Cohen LZ, Quintavalle AO, Chandra D & Campbell ET () . Quantum, 7, 1005-1005.
Meister R, Benjamin SC & Campbell ET () . Quantum, 6, 637-637.
Seddon JR, Regula B, Pashayan H, Ouyang Y & Campbell ET () . PRX Quantum, 2(1).
Sidhu JS, Ouyang Y, Campbell ET & Kok P () . Physical Review X, 11(1).
Roffe J, White DR, Burton S & Campbell E () . Physical Review Research, 2(4).
Beverland M, Campbell E, Howard M & Kliuchnikov V () . Quantum Science and Technology, 5(3), 035009-035009.
Anwar H, Brown BJ, Campbell ET & Browne DE () . New Journal of Physics, 16(6), 063038-063038.
Campbell ET, Genoni MG & Eisert J () . Physical Review A, 87(4).
Campbell ET, Anwar H & Browne DE () . Physical Review X, 2(4).
Anwar H, Campbell ET & Browne DE () . New Journal of Physics, 14(6), 063006-063006.
Campbell ET & Eisert J () . Physical Review Letters, 108(2).
Campbell ET () . Physical Review A, 83(3).
Hoban MJ, Campbell ET, Loukopoulos K & Browne DE () . New Journal of Physics, 13(2), 023014-023014.
Campbell ET () . Physical Review A, 82(4).
Campbell ET & Browne DE () . Physical Review Letters, 104(3).
Campbell ET & Benjamin SC () . Physical Review Letters, 101(13).
Campbell ET () . Physical Review A, 76(4).
Campbell ET, Fitzsimons J, Benjamin SC & Kok P () . New Journal of Physics, 9(6), 196-196.
Campbell ET, Fitzsimons J, Benjamin SC & Kok P () . Physical Review A, 75(4).
Ouyang Y, White DR & Campbell ET () . Quantum, 4, 235-235.

Conference proceedings papers

Gehér GP, Crawford O & Campbell ET (2023) . 2023 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), 17 September 2023 - 22 September 2023.
Barnes KM, Bialas T, Buğdayci O, Campbell ET, Gillespie NI, Johar K, Rajan R, Richardson AW, Skoric L, Topal C , Turner ML et al (2023) . 2023 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), 17 September 2023 - 22 September 2023.
Dalzell AM, Pancotti N, Campbell ET & Brandão FGSL (2023) . Proceedings of the 55th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing
Meuli G, Soeken M, Campbell E, Roetteler M & de Micheli G (2019) . 2019 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD). Westminster, CO, USA, 4 November 2019 - 7 November 2019.
Jones BDM, White DR, O’Brien GO, Clark JA & Campbell ET (2019) . GECCO '19: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (pp 1223-1231). Prague, Czech Republic, 13 July 2019 - 13 July 2019.
Campbell ET (2015) . Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs, Vol. 44 (pp 111-126)
Campbell ET & Browne DE (2009) (pp 20-32)

Preprints

Ouyang Y & Campbell ET (2020) Trade-offs on number and phase shift resilience in bosonic quantum codes.
Seddon JR, Regula B, Pashayan H, Ouyang Y & Campbell ET (2020) , arXiv.
Sidhu JS, Ouyang Y, Campbell ET & Kok P (2019) , arXiv.
Beverland M, Campbell E, Howard M & Kliuchnikov V (2019) Lower bounds on the non-Clifford resources for quantum computations.
Bravyi S, Browne D, Calpin P, Campbell E, Gosset D & Howard M (2018) Simulation of quantum circuits by low-rank stabilizer decompositions.
Campbell ET & Howard M (2017) Magic state parity-checker with pre-distilled components.

Research group

Inorganic Semiconductors Group

Grants

EPSRC early career fellow project "Towards fault-tolerant quantum computing with minimal resources." EP/M024261/1 value: £675,867
Royal Commission of Great Exhibition of 1851 fellowship funding. value: ~£100,000

Teaching activities

PHY101 Academic tutor
3rd and 4th year project supervisor

Professional activities and memberships

Active member of EPSRC Peer Review College.
Institute of Physics QQQ (Quantum Optics, Quantum Information and Quantum Control) group Committee.
Organiser of FTQT2016 (Fault-tolerant quantum technologies) workshop in Benasque, Spain.

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School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Professor Earl Campbell

Career history

Featured publications

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