Michał Horodecki (born 1973) is a Polish physicist at the
University of Gdańsk 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 t ...
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 together with his brother
Paweł Horodecki and father
Ryszard Horodecki. He co-discovered with Jonathan Oppenheim,
Paweł Horodecki 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 a ...
, he discovered quantum
state-merging and used this primitive to show that quantum information could be negative.
Papers
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References
1973 births
Living people
21st-century Polish physicists
Quantum physicists
Academic staff of the University of Gdańsk
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