Asher Peres

Asher Peres

Asher Peres ( Hebrew אשר פרס; *  January 30, 1934 as Aristide Pressman in Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne , France ; † January 1 , 2005 in Haifa , Israel ) was an Israeli physicist . He is considered one of the pioneers of quantum information theory .

Life

Peres was born in France to Polish parents of Jewish faith. He was given the name Aristide because the maternal grandfather's name, Asher , desired by the parents , was not allowed. In the same year the family, like all guest workers, had to leave France due to the global economic crisis . In 1938 Peres took French citizenship and returned to France with his parents from Poland. There the family survived the Second World War . In 1949 they emigrated to Israel. Peres changed his first name to Asher and Pressman's surname to Peres .

Peres studied at the Technion in Haifa and at the nuclear research center in Saclay near Paris and received his doctorate in 1959 with a dissertation on gravitation theory under the supervision of Nathan Rosen and was (apart from short stays abroad) worked as a lecturer and professor at the Technion from 1959 until his death.

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In more than 250 publications, Peres made important contributions in the areas of gravitation theory (including gravitational waves ) and quantum field theory and to the fundamentals and interpretation of quantum mechanics . He was one of the pioneers of quantum information theory. Among others, he was one of the discoverers of quantum teleportation with William Wootters , Charles H. Bennett , Gilles Brassard , Claude Crépeau and Richard Jozsa in 1993 and proposed the Peres-Horodecki criterion to distinguish entangled and separable states.

literature

• CG Kuper and A. Peres (Eds.): Relativity and Gravitation . Gordon and Breach, New York, 1971.
• Asher Peres: Quantum Theory, Concepts and Methods . Kluwer, 1993, ISBN 0-7923-2549-4 .
• CH Bennett, G. Brassard, C. Crépeau, R. Jozsa, A. Peres, WK Wootters: Teleporting an unknown quantum state via dual classical and EPR channels . In: Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 1993, pp. 1895-1899. ( Abstract )
• A. Peres: Separability Criterion for Density Matrices . In: Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 1996, pp. 1413-1415. ( Abstract )
• A. Peres: I am the cat who walks by himself . In: Foundations of Physics . 36, 2006, pp. 1-18. Autobiography, first published in 2004. ( online ).

Web links

• Joseph E. Terzian, Charles H. Bennett, Ady Mann, William K. Wootters: Asher Peres (obituary) . In: Physics Today . tape 58 , no. 8 , 2005, p. 65 , doi : 10.1063 / 1.2062925 ( technion.ac.il [PDF]).
• N. Lindner, P. Scudo, D. Terno: Asher Peres, 1934-2005. 2005 (English, obituary from his students). 
• Lydia Peres Hari: Asher Peres, 1934-2005. (English, souvenir page of his daughter, with photos). 
• Asher Peres — List of Publications . In: Foundations of Physics . tape 36 , 2006, p. 157-173 , doi : 10.1007 / s10701-005-9003-2 .