Daniel Gottesman is a physicist, known for his work regarding
quantum error correction
Quantum error correction (QEC) is used in quantum computing to protect quantum information from errors due to decoherence and other quantum noise. Quantum error correction is theorised as essential to achieve fault tolerant quantum computing that ...
, in particular the invention of the stabilizer formalism for quantum error-correcting codes, and the
Gottesman–Knill theorem In quantum computing, the Gottesman–Knill theorem is a theoretical result by Daniel Gottesman and Emanuel Knill that states that stabilizer circuits, circuits that only consist of gates from the normalizer of the qubit Pauli group, also ca ...
. He is a faculty member at the University of Maryland.
Gottesman completed a B.A. in Physics at Harvard University (1992) and a Ph.D. in Physics at Caltech (1997). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2013). In 2003, he was named to the
MIT
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Technology Review
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TR100
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as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.
See also
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Clifford gates
In quantum computing and quantum information theory, the Clifford gates are the elements of the Clifford group, a set of mathematical transformations which normalize the ''n''-qubit Pauli group, i.e., map tensor products of Pauli matrices to te ...
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Continuous-variable quantum information Continuous-variable (CV) quantum information is the area of quantum information science that makes use of physical observables, like the strength of an electromagnetic field, whose numerical values belong to continuous intervals. One primary applic ...
References
External links
Gottesman's homepage at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario
1970 births
Living people
21st-century American physicists
Quantum information scientists
Harvard College alumni
California Institute of Technology alumni
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
Fellows of the American Physical Society
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