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Curriculum Vitae
John King Gamble
Contact Information
Department of Physics Office: 5102 Chamberlin Hall
University of Wisconsin–Madison Phone: +1.608.263.6367
1150 University Avenue Email: jgamble@wisc.edu
Madison, WI 53706-1390 Web: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/∼jgamble
Education
2004 Secondary education, magna cum laude, Harbor Creek High School, Harborcreek, PA,
USA.
2004 Two courses (Chemistry and Economics) at Pennsylvania State University, Erie, PA,
USA.
2007 One course in frontier research topics in physics at The University of New Mexico, Los
Alamos, NM, USA.
2008 Bachelors of Arts, Physics and Mathematics, summa cum laude and departmental honors,
The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH, USA.
2010 Tenth Canadian Summer School in Quantum Information at the University of British
Columbia-Vancouver, Canada.
2010 Masters of Science, Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
Present
Pursuing a Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
Publications
1. Neil Bushong, John Gamble, and Massimiliano Di Ventra, Electron turbulence at nanoscale junctions.
Nano Lett., 7 (6), 1789-1792, 2007.
2. Jingfu Zhang, Fernando M. Cucchietti, C. M. Chandrashekar, Marten Laforest, Colm A. Ryan, Michael
Ditty, Adam Hubbard, John K. Gamble, and Raymond Laflamme, Direct observation of quantum
criticality in Ising spin chains. Phys. Rev. A, 79 (012305), 2009.
3. John King Gamble and John F. Lindner, Demystifying decoherence and the master equation of
quantum Brownian motion. Am. J. Phys., 77 (3), 224-252. 2009.
4. John King Gamble, Mark Friesen, Dong Zhou, Robert Joynt, and S. N. Coppersmith, Two-particle
quantum walks applied to the graph isomorphism problem, Phys. Rev. A 81, 052313 (2010).
5. John King Gamble, Mark Friesen, Robert Joynt, and S. N. Coppersmith, Cooling of cryogenic
electron bilayers via the Coulomb interaction, Phys. Rev. B 84, 125321 (2011).

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6. Zhan Shi, C. B. Simmons, J. R. Prance, John King Gamble, Mark Friesen, D. E. Savage, M. G.
Lagally, S. N. Coppersmith, and M. A. Eriksson, Tunable singlet-triplet splitting in a few-electron
Si/SiGe quantum dot, Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 233108 (2011).
7. Zhan Shi, C. B. Simmons, J. R. Prance, John King Gamble, Teck Seng Koh, Yun-Pil Shim, Xuedong
Hu, D. E. Savage, M. G. Lagally, M. A. Eriksson, Mark Friesen, and S. N. Coppersmith, A fast “hybrid”
silicon double quantum dot qubit, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 140503 (2012).
8. John King Gamble, Mark Friesen, S.N. Coppersmith, and Xuedong Hu. Two-electron dephasing in
single Si and GaAs quantum dots, Phys. Rev. B 86, 035302 (2012).
9. Kenneth Rudinger, John King Gamble, Mark Wellons, Eric Bach, Mark Friesen, Robert Joynt,
and S.N. Coppersmith. Non-interacting multi-particle quantum random walks applied to the graph
isomorphism problem for strongly regular graphs, to appear in Phys. Rev. A.
10. Kenneth Rudinger, John King Gamble, Eric Bach, Mark Friesen, Robert Joynt, and S. N. Coppersmith.
Comparing algorithms for graph isomorphism using discrete- and continuous-time quantum
random walks. Submitted for publication.
11. Teck Seng Koh, John King Gamble, Mark Friesen, M. A. Eriksson, and S. N. Coppersmith. Pulsegated
quantum dot hybrid qubit. Submitted for publication.
12. Zhan Shi, C. B. Simmons, D. R. Ward, J. R. Prance, Teck Seng Koh, John King Gamble, X. Wu, D.
E. Savage, M. G. Lagally, Mark Friesen, S. N. Coppersmith, and M. A. Eriksson. Coherent Quantum
Oscillations in a Silicon Charge Qubit. Submitted for publication.
Presentations
1. John Gamble and Fernando Cuccietti, Simulating a quantum Ising model on a liquid-phase NMR
quantum computer. Los Alamos student research symposium, August 2007.
2. John King Gamble, Mark Friesen, Dong Zhou, Robert Joynt, and S. N. Coppersmith, Two-particle
quantum walks applied to the graph isomorphism problem, National Meeting of the American Physical
Society, Dallas TX, March 2011.
3. John King Gamble, Teck Seng Koh, Zhan Shi, C. B. Simmons, J. R. Prance, D. E. Savage, M. G.
Lagally, Xuedong Hu, Mark Friesen, M. A. Eriksson, and S. N. Coppersmith, Tunability of singlettriplet
splitting and dephasing of two-electron states in a silicon quantum dot, International Workshop
on Silicon Quantum Electronics, Denver CO, August 2011.
4. John King Gamble, Mark Friesen, S. N. Coppersmith, and Xuedong Hu. Two-electron dephasing in
a single silicon quantum dot, International Workshop on Silicon Quantum Electronics, Sydney NSW,
Australia, February 2012.
5. John King Gamble, Mark Friesen, S. N. Coppersmith, and Xuedong Hu. Two-electron dephasing in
a single silicon quantum dot, National meeting of the American Physical Society, Boston MA, March
2012.
Honors and Awards
2004 The College Scholar Award from The College of Wooster.
2005 The Freshman Chemistry Achievement Award from CRC Press.
2006 The Joseph Albertus Culler Prize in Physics from The College of Wooster.
2007 Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.

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2008 The Arthur H. Compton Prize in Physics from The College of Wooster.
2008 The William H. Wilson Prize in Mathematics from The College of Wooster.
2008 Recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Service
2006 Technical writing and educational consulting for the Applied Mathematics Research
Experience program at The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio.
2006–2008 Participation in Society of Physics Students outreach effort to local elementary schools.
2005–2008 Teaching assistant and tutor, The Department of Physics, The College of Wooster,
Wooster, Ohio.
2010 Referee, Quantum Information Processing.
2011 Referee, Recent Patents on Computer Science.
2012 Referee, Physical Review Letters.
Professional Experience
2005 Experimental work under the Research Experience for Undergraduates program funded
by the National Science Foundation at The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio.
Overview: Investigated the dielectric properties of binary mixtures of nematic-phase liquid
crystals. Correlations were found between the concentration of mixture components
and the resulting anisotropy of dielectric permattivity. The supervising scientist was Dr.
Shila Garg (Professor of Physics and Dean of the Faculty, The College of Wooster).
2006 Theoretical research for the REU program at The University of California, San Diego
(UCSD), La Jolla, California.
Overview: Investigated the nature of turbulence in the electron liquid at a nanoscale
junction. Comparisons were made between classical simulations integrating the Navier-
Stokes equations and quantum time-dependent current density functional theory (TD-
CDFT) simulations. The two were found to be startlingly similar, providing evidence
for the validity of approximations used in earlier work on the similarity between classical
fluid and electron liquid stress tensors when confined to a nanoscale junction. The
principal investigator was Dr. Massimiliano Di Ventra (Professor of Physics, UCSD).
2007 Theoretical research for the Los Alamos Summer School in Physics REU program at
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Overview: Theoretically developed, numerically implemented , and tested a new quantum
simulation algorithm for experimental realization on a seven-qubit liquid-phase
NMR quantum computer. The simulation successfully numerically reproduced a sevenspin
disordered Ising model Hamiltonian. The supervising scientist was Dr. Fernando
Cucchietti (Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow, LANL).
2007–2008 Theoretical research at The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio.
Overview: Completed a yearlong research project investigating the physical foundations
of quantum decoherence theory. The study illuminated connections between discrete
and continuous quantum systems, and showed how random noise formally resulted in
the loss of quantum information. The supervising professor was Dr. John Lindner
(Moore Professor of Astronomy and Chair of Physics, The College of Wooster).

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2008–present
Theoretical research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Overview: Current research interests include the theory of Si-based quantum dot heterostructures,
heat transfer in low-dimensional electron systems, quantum algorithms,
and quantum random walks. The supervisors are Dr. Susan Coppersmith (Professor of
Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Dr. Mark Friesen (Associate Scientist,
University of Wisconsin-Madison).
Denver, CO, August 15, 2012