Dr Peter Kirton
Chancellor’S Fellow - Senior Lecturer
Physics
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Publications
- Dissipative phase transition in the two-photon Dicke model
- Jayesh Shah Aanal, Kirton Peter, Felicetti Simone, Alaenian Hadiseh
- Physical Review Letters Vol 135 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/mz92-6l9g
- Superfluorescent upconversion nanoparticles as an emerging second generation quantum technology material
- MacKenzie Lewis E, Kirton Peter
- Nanoscale Horizons Vol 10, pp. 1242-1249 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1039/D4NH00651H
- A numerical approach for calculating exact non-adiabatic terms in quantum dynamics
- Lawrence Ewen DC, Schmid Sebastian FJ, Čepaitė Ieva, Kirton Peter, Duncan Callum W
- SciPost Physics Vol 18 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.21468/SciPostPhys.18.1.014
- OQuPy : A Python package to efficiently simulate non-Markovian open quantum systems with process tensors
- Fux Gerald E, Fowler-Wright Piper, Beckles Joel, Butler Eoin P, Eastham Paul R, Gribben Dominic, Keeling Jonathan, Kilda Dainius, Kirton Peter, Lawrence Ewen D C, Lovett Brendon W, O'Neill Eoin, Strathearn Aidan, de Wit Roosmarijn
- Journal of Chemical Physics Vol 161 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0225367
- Liouville space neural network representation of density matrices
- Kothe Simon, Kirton Peter
- Physical Review A Vol 109 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.109.062215
- Determining the validity of cumulant expansions for central spin models
- Fowler-Wright Piper, Arnardóttir Kristín B, Kirton Peter, Lovett Brendon W, Keeling Jonathan
- Physical Review Research Vol 5 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.033148
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Professional Activities
- Exotic Phase Transitions in Open Quantum Systems
- Speaker
- 11/6/2025
- External PhD examination, University of Manchester
- Examiner
- 7/5/2025
- External PhD examination, Trinity College Dublin
- Examiner
- 15/11/2024
- PT symmetry breaking in open quantum systems
- Speaker
- 15/5/2024
- Strathclyde open quantum systems
- Speaker
- 30/11/2023
- Time-evolving matrix product operators and environment dynamics
- Speaker
- 13/9/2023
Projects
- Supersolids and quantum droplets via light mediated interactions
- Ackemann, Thorsten (Principal Investigator) Haller, Elmar (Co-investigator) Kirton, Peter (Co-investigator) Robb, Gordon (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2028
- DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Carfora, Lorenzo
- Kuhr, Stefan (Principal Investigator) Kirton, Peter (Co-investigator) Carfora, Lorenzo (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2027
- Engineering many-body quantum states and dissipative dynamics in quantum simulators | Lawrence, Ewen
- Kirton, Peter (Principal Investigator) Daley, Andrew (Co-investigator) Lawrence, Ewen (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2025
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | Lawrence, Ewen
- Kirton, Peter (Principal Investigator) Daley, Andrew (Co-investigator) Lawrence, Ewen (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2025
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | Schmid, Sebastian Franz-Josef
- Daley, Andrew (Principal Investigator) Kirton, Peter (Co-investigator) Schmid, Sebastian Franz-Josef (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 19-Jan-2025
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | Kothe, Simon
- Kirton, Peter (Principal Investigator) Daley, Andrew (Co-investigator) Kothe, Simon (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 12-Jan-2024
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Contact
Dr
Peter
Kirton
Chancellor’S Fellow - Senior Lecturer
Physics
Email: peter.kirton@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3478