Samuel Scalet

Email: sscalet [at] ucdavis [dot] edu

About

I am a postdoc at UC Davis advised by Isaac Kim. I got my PhD from Cambridge University in 2025 where I was fortunate to be advised by Hamza Fawzi. I also was lucky to receive inofficial cosupervision by Omar Fawzi.

I am interested broadly in quantum many-body systems governed by local Hamiltonians. I study classical and quantum algorithms for Gibbs states and ground states to predict free energies and local observables. I am also interested in the structure and correlations of such states in general. More recently, I have focused on Lindblad dynamics that model thermalization and can be seen as efficient algorithms for Gibbs sampling.

I am always happy to discuss interesting problems, so please do reach out if you are interested :)

Publications and Preprints

The arxiv or my google scholar may be more up to date.