Raymond Laflamme

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Raymond Laflamme (* 1960 in Québec ) is a Canadian theoretical physicist.

Laflamme studied at Laval University with a bachelor's degree in physics in 1983 and at Cambridge University , where he took part 3 of the Tripos exams in 1984 and received his PhD in 1988 with Stephen Hawking . He was then a Killam post-doctoral student at the University of British Columbia and from 1990 a Research Fellow at Peterhouse College, Cambridge. From 1994 to 1997 he was an Oppenheimer Fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and then a member of the laboratory until 2001. In 2001 he became a professor at the University of Waterloo at the Institute for Quantum Computing, of which he was founding director from 2002 to 2017. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Quantum Information Theory and, since 2017, the John von Neumann Chair in Quantum Information at the University of Waterloo and is the Scientific Director of QuantumWorks (the Canadian Research Consortium for Quantum Information Theory).

He is also at the Perimeter Institute (since 2001), Program Director for Quantum Information Theory of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and, since 2011, Chief Strategic Officer of Universal Quantum Devices.

At first he dealt with cosmology. Stephen Hawking in his book A Brief History of Time, together with Don Page , credits him with convincing him that the arrow of time does not reverse in contracting universes.

But he is best known for his contributions to quantum information theory and quantum computers . In Los Alamos he worked on the implementation of quantum information processing with nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). He was a pioneer in quantum error correction and developed the fundamentals for quantum computers using linear optics (with Emmanuel Knill, Gerald Milburn). In 1996 he and colleagues published an efficient error-correcting quantum code.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2008), the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Physical Society (2011).

In 2013 he received the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal and in 2017 the CAP-CRM Prize and the Order of Canada . In 2012 he received an honorary doctorate from the Université de Sherbrooke.

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Unless stated in the footnotes.

  • with Phillip Kaye, Michele Mosca: Introduction to quantum computing, Oxford UP 2007
  • with Knill, Zurek: Resilient quantum computation, Science, Volume 279, 1998, p. 342
  • with Knill, Ashikhmin, Barnum, Viola, Zurek: Introduction to quantum error correction, Los Alamos Science, No. 27, 2002, pdf

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Knill, Laflamme, A Theory of Quantum Error-Correcting Codes, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 84, 20002, pp. 2525-2528, Arxiv
  2. ↑ Knill, Laflamme, GJ Milburn: A scheme for efficient quantum computation with linear optics, Nature, Volume 409, 2001, pp. 46-52. Knill, Laflamme, Milburn, Efficient linear optics quantum computation, Arxiv 2000
  3. ↑ R. Laflamme, C. Miquel, J.-P. Paz, W. Zurek: Perfect quantum error-correcting code, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 77, 1996, p. 298
personal data
SURNAME Laflamme, Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Quebec