Michał Horodecki (born 1973) is a Polish physicist at the

University of Gdańsk The University of Gdańsk ( pl, Uniwersytet Gdański) is a public research university located in Gdańsk, Poland. It is one of the top 10 universities in Poland and is also an important centre for the studies of the Kashubian language. History ...

working in the field of

quantum information Quantum information is the information of the state of a quantum system. It is the basic entity of study in quantum information theory, and can be manipulated using quantum information processing techniques. Quantum information refers to both th ...

theory, notable for his work on entanglement theory. He co-discovered the Peres-Horodecki criterion for testing whether a state is entangled, and used it to find

bound entanglement Bound entanglement is a weak form of quantum entanglement, from which no singlets can be distilled with local operations and classical communication (LOCC). Bound entanglement was discovered by M. Horodecki, P. Horodecki, and R. Horodecki. Bipart ...

together with his brother

Paweł Horodecki Paweł Horodecki (born in 1971) is a Polish professor of physics at the Gdańsk University of Technology working in the field of quantum information theory. He is best known for introducing (together with his father Ryszard Horodecki and brother ...

and father Ryszard Horodecki. He co-discovered with Jonathan Oppenheim,

and Karol Horodecki that secret key can be drawn from some bound entangled states. Together with Fernando Brandao he proved that every one-dimensional quantum state with a finite correlation length obeys an area law for entanglement entropy. Together with

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 ...

and

Andreas Winter 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 th ...

, 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.

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1973 births Living people 21st-century Polish physicists Quantum physicists Academic staff of the University of Gdańsk {{physicist-stub