Andreas J. Winter (born 14 June 1971,
Mühldorf, Germany) is a German mathematician and mathematical physicist at the
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in Spain. He received his Ph.D. in 1999 under
Rudolf Ahlswede and
Friedrich Götze at the
Universität Bielefeld in Germany before moving to the
University of Bristol and then to the
Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) at the
National University of Singapore
The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national public research university in Singapore. Founded in 1905 as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School, NUS is the oldest autonomous university in the c ...
. In 2013 he was appointed
ICREA ICREA, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, is a foundation jointly promoted by the Catalan Government through its Department of Innovation, Universities and Enterprise, and the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation (FCRI) ...
Research Professor at UAB.
Winter's research is focused in the field of
quantum information theory. Some of his main contributions concern the understanding of quantum communication protocols, the coding theory for
quantum channels, and the theory of
quantum entanglement. Together with
Michał Horodecki
Michał Horodecki (born 1973) is a Polish physicist at the University of Gdańsk working in the field of quantum information theory, notable for his work on entanglement theory.
He co-discovered the Peres-Horodecki criterion for testing whether ...
and
Jonathan Oppenheim
Jonathan Oppenheim is a professor of physics at University College London. He is an expert in quantum information theory and quantum gravity.
Work
Oppenheim proved the third law of thermodynamics (first conjectured by Walther Nernst in 1912) w ...
, he discovered quantum
state-merging In quantum information theory, quantum state merging is the transfer of a quantum state when the receiver already has part of the state. The process optimally transfers partial information using entanglement and classical communication. It allows f ...
and used this primitive to show that quantum information could be negative. Together with Marcin Pawlowski, Tomasz Paterek, Dagomir Kaszlikowski, and Valerio Scarani, he discovered
information causality. Together with Runyao Duan and
Simone Severini, he introduced a quantum mechanical version of the
Lovász number. Together with
Sandu Popescu,
Noah Linden and
Tony Short he proved that local equilibration of large quantum systems is a generic phenomena.
He was awarded the
Philip Leverhulme Prize
The Philip Leverhulme Prize is awarded by the Leverhulme Trust to recognise the achievement of outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition and whose future career is exceptionally promising. The prize schem ...
for Mathematics and Statistics in 2008 and in 2012 the
Whitehead Prize of the
London Mathematical Society
The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is one of the United Kingdom's learned societies for mathematics (the others being the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), the Edinburgh Mathematical S ...
.
London Mathematical Society: Whitehead Prizes 2012
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Papers
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References
External links
Andreas Winter's HomepageAndreas Winter's entry in the Mathematics Genealogy Project
Living people
1971 births
21st-century German mathematicians
Quantum physicists
Bielefeld University alumni
Academic staff of the Autonomous University of Barcelona
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