Juan Pablo Paz (born 1959) is an Argentinian

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate caus ...

that works in the field of

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. A research scientist currently working at the

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, he has also worked at the

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in the

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Biography

Juan Pablo Paz was born in

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in 1959. He studied at the

, where he got his Master and Ph.D. degrees and then worked as researcher, teacher, and director of the Physics department of his faculty. He has worked as well in the

. Between 1984 and 2004 he was married with Silvina Ponce Dawson (who is also a physicist) with whom he had two children.

Research

Paz has worked in the quantum theory of error correction, and has developed a number of techniques to correct errors in this kind of computers. He has also used quantum computer to simulate chaotic systems, in the context of

chaos theory Chaos theory is an interdisciplinary area of scientific study and branch of mathematics focused on underlying patterns and deterministic laws of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions, and were once thought to have co ...

. In 2002, alongside César Miguel and Marcos Saraceno, he developed a program that allows efficient

spectroscopy Spectroscopy is the field of study that measures and interprets the electromagnetic spectra that result from the interaction between electromagnetic radiation and matter as a function of the wavelength or frequency of the radiation. Matter wa ...

and

tomography Tomography is imaging by sections or sectioning that uses any kind of penetrating wave. The method is used in radiology, archaeology, biology, atmospheric science, geophysics, oceanography, plasma physics, materials science, astrophysics, quantu ...

using a

quantum computer Quantum computing is a type of computation whose operations can harness the phenomena of quantum mechanics, such as superposition, interference, and entanglement. Devices that perform quantum computations are known as quantum computers. Though ...

, establishing for the first time an analogy between these tasks.

Awards

* Ernesto E. Galloni Award in Physics, 1994 * International Fellow, Santa Fe Institute, 2001-2003 *

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

, 2004 * W. Bessel Award, 2006. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation * Bunge & Born Foundation, 2010 *

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in Physics, 2012 * Bernardo Houssay Award and Researcher of the Nation, 2014

References

External links

''Un paso hacia la computación cuántica'', Axxon, July 8, 2002 (spanish)
* ttp://www.df.uba.ar/users/paz/ Personal websitebr>2001 Lecture
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