Dorit Aharonov

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Dorit Aharonov ( Hebrew דורית אהרונוב, * 1970 ) is an Israeli computer scientist and physicist who deals with quantum informatics .

Life

Aharonov studied mathematics and physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a bachelor's degree in 1994, received her master's degree in physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science and received her doctorate in computer science from the Hebrew University in 1999 with Avi Wigderson and Michael Ben-Or (Noisy Quantum Computation). She was a post-doctoral student at Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley . In 1998/99 she was at the Institute for Advanced Study . She is a professor at the Hebrew University.

Theoretically, she investigated quantum computers with noise and found that a transition to classical behavior occurs from a certain noise level. The transition is not gradual (decoherence), as was often expected until then, but rather abruptly as in a phase transition (expressed by the quantum entanglement length introduced by Aharonov). In the 1990s with Michael Ben-Or, she found that reliable quantum computers are still possible for low noise levels.

In 2004, she and others proved that the adiabatic model of the quantum computer is essentially identical to the conventional model.

Aharonov is open to the question of whether quantum computers are feasible at all, but sees research on them as revealing for exploring the nature of quantum mechanics.

In 2010 she was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad (India) (Mathematical Aspects of Computer Science).

She is the niece of the quantum physicist Yakir Aharonov .

Fonts

  • with Michael Ben-Or: Fault Tolerant Quantum Computation with Constant Error . Preprint 1996, arxiv : quant-ph / 9611025
  • Quantum to classical phase transition in noisy quantum computers . In: Physical Review A , Volume 62, 2000, p. 062311, abstract
  • with Wim van Dam, Julia Kempe, Zeph Landau, Seth Lloyd , Oded Regev: Adiabatic Quantum Computation is Equivalent to Standard Quantum Computation . In: SIAM J. of Computing , Volume 37, 2007, pp. 166-194, arxiv : quant-ph / 0405098

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  1. ↑ Waitzman, Nature 433, 2005, see web links
personal data
SURNAME Aharonov, Dorit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES דורית אהרונוב (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli computer scientist and physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1970