Robert Spekkens | |
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Nationality | Canadian |
Citizenship | Canadian |
Alma mater | McGill University, University of Toronto |
Known for |
Spekkens toy model; quantum contextuality |
Awards | Birkhoff-von Neumann Prize of the International Quantum Structures Association (2008); FQXI Essay contest "Questioning the Foundations: Which of Our Assumptions Are Wrong?" (2012) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physicist |
Institutions |
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics University of Cambridge University of Waterloo Griffith University |
Robert W. Spekkens is a Canadian theoretical quantum physicist working in the fields of quantum foundations and quantum information. [1] [2] [3]
He is known for his work on epistemic view of quantum states (in particular the Spekkens toy model), [4] [5] [6] quantum contextuality, [7] [8] [9] quantum resource theories [10] [11] and quantum causality. [12] [13]
He co-edited the book Quantum Theory: Informational Foundations and Foils. [14]
Spekkens is a faculty member and the leader of the quantum causal inference initiative at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. [15] [16] He regularly teaches the course on quantum foundations in the Perimeter Scholars International master's program. [17] [18]
He is an adjunct faculty in the Department of Physics of the University of Waterloo [19] and an adjunct research fellow in the Centre for Quantum Dynamics of Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. [15]
Robert Spekkens | |
---|---|
Nationality | Canadian |
Citizenship | Canadian |
Alma mater | McGill University, University of Toronto |
Known for |
Spekkens toy model; quantum contextuality |
Awards | Birkhoff-von Neumann Prize of the International Quantum Structures Association (2008); FQXI Essay contest "Questioning the Foundations: Which of Our Assumptions Are Wrong?" (2012) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physicist |
Institutions |
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics University of Cambridge University of Waterloo Griffith University |
Robert W. Spekkens is a Canadian theoretical quantum physicist working in the fields of quantum foundations and quantum information. [1] [2] [3]
He is known for his work on epistemic view of quantum states (in particular the Spekkens toy model), [4] [5] [6] quantum contextuality, [7] [8] [9] quantum resource theories [10] [11] and quantum causality. [12] [13]
He co-edited the book Quantum Theory: Informational Foundations and Foils. [14]
Spekkens is a faculty member and the leader of the quantum causal inference initiative at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. [15] [16] He regularly teaches the course on quantum foundations in the Perimeter Scholars International master's program. [17] [18]
He is an adjunct faculty in the Department of Physics of the University of Waterloo [19] and an adjunct research fellow in the Centre for Quantum Dynamics of Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. [15]