William Wootters

William Kent Wootters is an American theoretical physicist who works on the fundamentals of quantum mechanics.

Wootters graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in 1973 and received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 1980 . Since 1982 he has been at Williams College in Williamstown , Massachusetts, where he is Professor of Physics (Barclay Jermain Professor of Natural Philosophy). In 1989/90 he was visiting scholar at the Santa Fe Institute and in 1994 at the University of Montreal . In 1999 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .

Wootters works on quantum information theory. In 1982 he and Wojciech Zurek proved the no-cloning theorem in quantum mechanics. He is also one of the co-discoverers of quantum teleportation .

In 1999 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 2006 he received the 6th International Prize for Quantum Information with Peter Zoller , Ignacio Cirac , Philippe Grangier .

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References

1. ^ CH Bennett , Gilles Brassard , Claude Crépeau , Richard Jozsa , Asher Peres , WK Wootters, "Teleporting to Unknown Quantum State via Dual Classical and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Channels," Phys. Rev. Lett. Vol. 70, 1993, p. 1895.