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Michael A Jones

@backjam.bsky.social
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Quantum computing researcher (postdoc) at the University of Melbourne. Especially interested in quantum simulation and other applications to chemistry.

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Michael A Jones @backjam.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Some very cool quantum biotechnology projects here including one working with me on running quantum molecular dynamics calculations on real quantum computers The program runs for 4 weeks from Jan to Feb 2027 and is open to domestic undergrad students in their second to final year of study.
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Undergraduate Summer Internship Program | The ARC Centre of Excellence in Quantum Biotechnology (QUBIC)
Apply for QUBIC’s Summer Internship Program and gain hands-on experience in quantum biotechnology research across leading Australian universities.
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Michael A Jones @backjam.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Together with 7 other scientists I got to travel around Tasmania bringing science to schools and pubs. I enjoyed it and I’m certain the students (and teachers) did to. A huge thanks to the other road trippers and the many people whose time and effort made this such a success!
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Michael A Jones @backjam.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Last week I had the great pleasure to be part of the National Quantum and Dark Matter Road Trip, organised by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics and @arcqubic.bsky.social
Most of the road trippers standing in front of the Queen Victoria Museum in Launceston.Friday night, science themed pub trivia. We had to sit on the floor of the stage because the place was so packed!Me describing the double slit interference experiment using an online graphic.The road trippers assigned to car 2 posing in front of the car.
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Michael A Jones @backjam.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Happy to share that this work from my PhD is now published: link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/... This is a more complete version of the arxiv version (which is itself a longer version of a thesis chapter)
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Moments-based improved quantum computation of the electric dipole moment of molecular systems
With rapid progress being made in the development of platforms for quantum computation, there has been considerable interest in whether present-day and near-term devices can be used to solve problems ...
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Michael A Jones @backjam.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
name tags for the conferences
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Michael A Jones @backjam.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
At the QUBIC Symposium and qLIFE it’s always inspiring to see the way quantum sensing technologies are beginning to have an impact for the life sciences, as well as the potential applications of quantum computing in this sector.
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Michael A Jones @backjam.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
At QDC it was great to see the impressive experiments being run on the IBM Quantum devices and the way Qiskit is evolving to be easier and more transparent for researchers, the advanced error mitigation techniques that are being introduced and the sustained progress of the quantum hardware.
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Michael A Jones @backjam.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Over the past two weeks I had the pleasure to attend the IBM Quantum Developer Conference (QDC), the ARC Centre of Excellence in Quantum Biotechnology (QUBIC) annual symposium and the Quantum technologies in the Life Sciences conference (qLIFE).
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Abhinav Anand @abhinav-anand.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
🚀 New Paper Announcement! (Accpted for publication at HPCA2026) We’re excited to introduce Cyclone (arxiv.org/abs/2511.15910) an efficient, highly parallel architectural design for QCCD-based quantum devices aimed at enabling dense, fault-tolerant quantum memory.
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Cyclone: Designing Efficient and Highly Parallel QCCD Architectural Codesigns for Fault Tolerant Quantum Memory
Modular trapped-ion quantum computing hardware, known as QCCDs require shuttling operations in order to maintain effective all-to-all connectivity. Each module or trap can perform only one operation a...
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Michael A Jones @backjam.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Again, thanks to Lloyd, Manolo, Harish and Harry for their input!
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Michael A Jones @backjam.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
An updated version of Chapter 4 was also recently uploaded to arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2509.10758 What started as a straightforward application of the method became a 2 year long investigation on various implementations and their resilience/susceptibility to quantum hardware noise.
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Moments-based quantum computation of the electric dipole moment of molecular systems
With rapid progress being made in the development of platforms for quantum computation, there has been considerable interest in whether present-day and near-term devices can be used to solve problems ...
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Michael A Jones @backjam.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The full list of acknowledgments is in the thesis but I’d like to give a special thanks to Lloyd Hollenberg, Harry Quiney, Andy Martin, Charles Hill, Harish Vallury, Alana Fiusco and Manolo Per.
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Michael A Jones @backjam.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
I’m excited to share that my PhD thesis, on ground-state-energy estimation of molecular systems using quantum computers, has been accepted and is now publicly available: hdl.handle.net/11343/358082
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Michael A Jones @backjam.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
I’m excited (despite the jet lag) to be heading back to LA for the IPAM Mathematical and Computational Challenges in Quantum Computing workshop!
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