Charles Thomas

Aspiring Theoretical Physicist

Recent Blog Posts

An Introduction to de Sitter Space - Part 1

Most of my work is on a spacetime called de Sitter space, so I wanted to write a series explaining what that actually is and why it is interesting. So let’s dive in. What is a spacetime? A spacetime is the arena in which physics takes place. Prior to Einstein,...
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The Strong CP Problem A Guide

I recently had to give a talk to other PhD students in the Maths department and I choose to do it on my master’s dissertation. This was on a topic called the Strong CP problem which is a fine tuning problem on particle physics and these are my notes from...
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Note taking for Mathematics at University

I have been doing a lot of tutoring recently, and a student of mine asked about how I took notes during university so I thought I would share how I took notes for my mathematics class in both my undergraduate degree and my master’s. Lectures For my in-person lectures, I...
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Basic Quantum Computing - Shor's Algorithm - Phase Estimation

In this series of posts, we’re exploring a famous algorithm called Shor’s Algorithm. In the last post, we talked about using phase estimation to do order finding. In this post, we’re going to explore how phase estimation works. What problem does phase estimation solve? Phase estimation solves the problem of...
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