Paul Benioff

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Paul A. Benioff (born May 1, 1930 in Pasadena (California) ) is an American physicist who is one of the pioneers of quantum information theory and the theoretical treatment of quantum computers .

Benioff received his doctorate in 1959 from the University of California, Berkeley , was a Weizmann Fellow at the Weizmann Institute in 1960 and a Ford Fellow at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen in 1961 . From 1961 he was at the Argonne National Laboratory , where he officially retired in 1995, but continued research afterwards. Until 1978 he worked at the Argonne Laboratory with theoretical nuclear chemistry, then with environmental issues.

From the 1980s he dealt with the theoretical foundations of quantum computers and the relationship between mathematics and physics in general. In 1980 he was the first to describe a quantum mechanical model of a quantum computer with a Hamilton function.

In 1979 and 1982 he was visiting scientist at the CNRS at the University of Marseille in Luminy and in 1979 visiting professor at the University of Tel Aviv .

In 2000 he received the International Quantum Communication Award from the International Organization for Quantum Communication, Computing, and Measurement , in 2001 he received the Distinguished Performance Award from the University of Chicago (which includes the Argonne Laboratory) and in 2001 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .

He was married to Hanna Leshner since 1959 and has three children.

Fonts (selection)

  • The computer as a physical system: A microscopic quantum mechanical Hamiltonian model of computers as represented by Turing machines, Journal of Statistical Physics, Volume 22, 1980, pp. 563-591
  • Quantum mechanical Hamiltonian models of turing machines, Journal of Statistical Physics, Volume 29, 1982, pp. 515-546.
  • Quantum Mechanical Models of Turing Machines That Dissipate No Energy, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 48, 1982, pp. 1581-1585
  • Quantum mechanical Hamiltonian models of discrete processes that erase their own histories: Application to Turing machines, Int. J. Theor. Phys., Vol. 21, 1982, pp. 177-201
  • Quantum Mechanical Hamiltonian Models of Computers, Annals New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 480, 1986, pp. 475-486
  • Quantum ballistic evolution in quantum mechanics: Application to quantum computers, Phys. Rev. A, Vol. 54, 1996, pp. 1106-1123, Arxiv
  • Tight binding Hamiltonians and Quantum Turing Machines, Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 78, 1997, pp. 590-593
  • Models of Quantum Turing Machines, Advances in Physics, Volume 46, 1998, pp. 423-441, Arxiv
  • Quantum robots and environments, Phys. Rev. A, Vol. 58, 1998, pp. 893-904, Arxiv
  • Quantum Robots and Quantum Computers, in: AJG Hey (Ed.), Feynman and Computation, Perseus Books 1999, pp. 155-176, Arxiv
  • The Representation of Natural Numbers in Quantum Mechanics, Phys. Rev. A, Vol. 63, 2001, p. 032305, Arxiv
  • Efficient Implementation and the Product State Representation of Numbers, Phys. Rev. A, Volume 64, 2001, p. 052310, Arxiv
  • Towards a Coherent Theory of Physics and Mathematics, Found. Phys., Vol. 32, 2002, pp. 989-1029, Arxiv
  • The Representation of Numbers in Quantum Mechanics, Algorithmica, Volume 34, 2002, pp. 529-559, Arxiv
  • Towards a Coherent Theory of Physics and Mathematics: The Theory-Experiment Connection, Foundations of Physics, Volume 35, 2005, pp. 1825-1856, Arxiv
  • Representation of complex rational numbers in quantum mechanics, Phys. Rev. A, Volume 72, 2005, p. 032314, Arxiv

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Contribution to a 1981 MIT conference on quantum computers
personal data
SURNAME Benioff, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Benioff, Paul A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Pasadena, California