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Daniel Amihud Lidar is the holder of the Viterbi Professorship of Engineering at the
University of Southern California , mottoeng = "Let whoever earns the palm bear it" , religious_affiliation = Nonsectarian—historically Methodist , established = , accreditation = WSCUC , type = Private research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $8.1 ...
, where he is a Professor of Electrical Engineering, Chemistry, Physics & Astronomy. He is the Director and co-founder of the USC Center for Quantum Information Science & Technology (CQIST) as well as Scientific Director of the
USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center The USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center (QCC) is a joint scientific research effort between Lockheed Martin Corporation and the University of Southern California (USC). The QCC is housed at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI), a comp ...
, notable for his research on control of quantum systems and
quantum information processing Quantum information science is an interdisciplinary field that seeks to understand the analysis, processing, and transmission of information using quantum mechanics principles. It combines the study of Information science with quantum effects in p ...
.


Education

He is a class of 1986 graduate of the
Armand Hammer United World College of the American West UWC-USA (legally named the Armand Hammer United World College of the American West) is a United World College founded in 1982 by industrialist and philanthropist Armand Hammer. Located in Montezuma, New Mexico, it is a two-year, independent, co- ...
. He obtained his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1997 under Robert Benny Gerber and Ofer Biham, with a thesis entitled ''Structural Characterization of Disordered Systems''.


Career

In 1997–2000, he was a postdoc at
UC Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant uni ...
, having been awarded Rothschild Foundation and
Fulbright Program The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people o ...
fellowships (the latter of which he declined); in 2000–2005, he was an assistant professor and then later an associate professor of Chemistry at the
University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 ...
, with cross-appointments in Physics and Mathematics. He moved to the
University of Southern California , mottoeng = "Let whoever earns the palm bear it" , religious_affiliation = Nonsectarian—historically Methodist , established = , accreditation = WSCUC , type = Private research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $8.1 ...
in 2005, where he is a Professor of Electrical Engineering, Chemistry, and
Physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...
.


Honors

He was a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, a 2007 Fellow of the American Physical Society, a 2012 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and 2015 Fellow of the
IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operat ...
. He is listed as one of the top 20 authors of the decade 2000–2009 in Quantum Computing by
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' Sciencewatch. In 2009 he was elected an Outstanding Referee of the American Physical Society. His early career awards include a
Sloan Foundation The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is an American philanthropic nonprofit organization. It was established in 1934 by Alfred P. Sloan Jr., then-president and chief executive officer of General Motors. The Sloan Foundation makes grants to support o ...
Fellowship, the Young Explorer Award given by the
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) is a Canadian-based global research organization that brings together teams of top researchers from around the world to address important and complex questions. It was founded in 1982 and is s ...
for the top 20 researchers in Canada under age 40, and the
John Charles Polanyi John Charles Polanyi ( hu, Polányi János Károly; born 23 January 1929) is a German-born Canadian chemist. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research in chemical kinetics. Polanyi was born into the prominent Hungari ...
Prize in Chemistry awarded by the Ontario Council of Graduate Studies.


Research

He has made numerous contributions to quantum computing and
quantum control Coherent control is a quantum mechanics-based method for controlling dynamic processes by light. The basic principle is to control quantum interference phenomena, typically by shaping the phase of laser pulses. The basic ideas have proliferated, f ...
, and is the coeditor and coauthor of a book on quantum error correction. His current work focuses on adiabatic quantum computing and quantum annealing, areas where he has made widely cited contributions to studying the capabilities of the
D-Wave Systems D-Wave Systems Inc. is a Canadian quantum computing company, based in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. D-Wave was the world's first company to sell computers to exploit quantum effects in their operation. D-Wave's early customers include Loc ...
processors. His past interests include scattering theory and
fractals In mathematics, a fractal is a geometric shape containing detailed structure at arbitrarily small scales, usually having a fractal dimension strictly exceeding the topological dimension. Many fractals appear similar at various scales, as illus ...
. Lidar's research in quantum information processing has focused primarily on methods for overcoming
decoherence Quantum decoherence is the loss of quantum coherence. In quantum mechanics, particles such as electrons are described by a wave function, a mathematical representation of the quantum state of a system; a probabilistic interpretation of the wa ...
. He wrote some of the founding papers on
decoherence-free subspaces A decoherence-free subspace (DFS) is a subspace of a quantum system's Hilbert space that is invariant to non- unitary dynamics. Alternatively stated, they are a small section of the system Hilbert space where the system is decoupled from the en ...
, most notably his widely cited paper "Decoherence-free subspaces for quantum computation", and their generalization, noiseless subsystems. These contributions were noted in his APS Fellow citation. He has also made major contributions to
dynamical decoupling Dynamical decoupling (DD) is an open-loop quantum control technique employed in quantum computing to suppress decoherence by taking advantage of rapid, time-dependent control modulation. In its simplest form, DD is implemented by periodic sequenc ...
, in particular the invention of the concatenated dynamical decoupling (CDD) method. He has made a proposal to protect
adiabatic quantum computation Adiabatic quantum computation (AQC) is a form of quantum computing which relies on the adiabatic theorem to do calculations and is closely related to quantum annealing. Description First, a (potentially complicated) Hamiltonian is found whose g ...
against decoherence, using dynamical decoupling, one of the only proposals to date dealing with error correction for the adiabatic model. Lidar has also worked on quantum algorithms, having written some of the pioneering papers in the subject on simulation of classical statistical mechanics and quantum chemistry. In his PhD work he made a widely cited observation on the limited scaling range of empirically observed
fractals In mathematics, a fractal is a geometric shape containing detailed structure at arbitrarily small scales, usually having a fractal dimension strictly exceeding the topological dimension. Many fractals appear similar at various scales, as illus ...
, which led to an exchange with Benoit Mandelbrot.


Patents

He holds four U.S. patents in the area of quantum computing.


Publications

* ''Quantum Aspects of Life'' (book), 2008, section co-author * "Attack of the quantum worms",
New Scientist ''New Scientist'' is a magazine covering all aspects of science and technology. Based in London, it publishes weekly English-language editions in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia. An editorially separate organisation publish ...
, October 29, 2005, pp. 30–33 * "Single field shapes quantum bits", Technology Research News, November 3/10, 2004 * "Sturdy quantum computing demoed", Technology Research News, April 7/14, 2004 * "World Computations", Lifestyles Magazine Vol. 31, No. 182, 2002, pp. 38–40 (an interview) * "Quantum Protection", NSERC Newsbureau Bulletin No. 46, published April 25, 2002 * "A quantum leap in the way computers think",
Toronto Star The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circulation. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and pa ...
, March 28, 2002, National Report section * "Alternative quantum bits go natural", Technology Research News, April 2001 * "Quantum Computers",
Chemical & Engineering News ''Chemical & Engineering News'' (''C&EN'') is a weekly news magazine published by the American Chemical Society, providing professional and technical news and analysis in the fields of chemistry and chemical engineering.''Science'', Editor’s Choice, September 2000 * "Quantum Computing for Chemists",
New Scientist ''New Scientist'' is a magazine covering all aspects of science and technology. Based in London, it publishes weekly English-language editions in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia. An editorially separate organisation publish ...
, August 1998


References


Sciencewatch lists of top 20 authors in Quantum Computing

Rothschild Fellowship

Sloan Research Fellowship

APS Fellowship

AAAS Fellowship



External links

* ttps://www.wired.com/2013/06/d-wave-quantum-computer-usc/ Wired interview with Lidar
Sciencewatch interview with Lidar



Lidar's homepage

Lidar at the ACM portal

Lidar's math genealogy

Lidar's Qwiki profile

Center for Quantum Information Science & Technology (CQIST) at USC

USC Lockheed-Martin Quantum Computation Center
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