Steven Thomson

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EPSRC Open Fellow in quantum condensed matter theory at the University of Edinburgh. Former Research Scientist at IBM Research, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at FU Berlin, and postdocs at Collège de France, the Ecole Polytechnique and CEA Saclay. He/him.

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My PhD thesis.
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