Biography:Akira Furusawa
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Akira Furusawa (Japanese: 古澤 明 Hepburn: Furusawa Akira, born 1961) is a Japanese physicist known for his contributions to quantum teleportation. He is a professor of physics in University of Tokyo and specilizes in nonlinear optics, quantum optics, and quantum information science.[1]
Education and career
Furusawa was born in 1961 in the Saitama Prefecture of Japan and attended Saitama Prefectural Urawa High School.[2][3]
He received his undergraduate degree in Engineering Physics from University of Tokyo in 1984 and a master's degree from the same institution in 1986. In the same year, he began working for Nikon.[4] He obtained his PhD from University of Tokyo in 1991.[1]
He was an assistant researcher at Jeff Kimble's lab in California Institute of Technology from 1996 to 1998, where he made advancements in quantum teleportation research.[1]
In 2000, he left Nikon and became an assistant professor in University of Tokyo's Engineering Physics department.[4] In 2007, he became a full professor.[1]
In 2013, his research group perfected existing quantum teleportation techniques and reduced noise in communications.[5]
As of 2024, Furusawa is working on building an optical quantum computer. It is generally believed that several different hardware-based technology platforms are possible candidates for building a quantum computer. Though some of these technologies, particularly superconductors and semiconductors, have a head start, Furusawa believes that light has advantages that will eventually lead to an optical quantum computer winning against other approaches.[6] A significant part of Furusawa's recent work has focused on generating large-scale cluster states, which are a major substrate for photonics-based universal quantum computing[7][8].
Awards and recognitions
He was awarded the purple ribbon of Japan's Medals of Honor in 2017 for his contributions to Quantum Computing.[9]
Publications
Furusawa published several books on quantum mechanics.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Nobel Prize Dialogue - Akira Furusawa". https://www.nobelprize.org/events/nobel-prize-dialogue/tokyo-2025/panelist-ja/%E5%8F%A4%E6%BE%A4%E3%80%80%E6%98%8E-akira-furusawa/.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Error: no
|title=specified when using {{Cite web}}" (in ja). https://gendai.media/list/author/akirafurusawa. - ↑ "Error: no
|title=specified when using {{Cite web}}" (in ja). 2016-09-14. https://urawa-h.spec.ed.jp/blogs/blog_entries/view/340/9b76f5e49e4e90109b04a89bbb36448e. - ↑ 4.0 4.1 (in ja), 2007, p. 14-15, doi:10.1241/jstnews.4.9_14
- ↑ "Error: no
|title=specified when using {{Cite web}}" (in ja). 2013-08-30. https://eetimes.itmedia.co.jp/ee/articles/1308/19/news028.html. - ↑ "Quantum computers move into the light". 2024-02-28. https://www.nature.com/articles/d42473-023-00436-7.
- ↑ "General-Purpose Optical Quantum Computer Comes to Japan - IEEE Spectrum" (in en). https://spectrum.ieee.org/optical-quantum-computer.
- ↑ "Prototype Large-Scale Quantum Processor Made Entirely of Light" (in en-US). 2019-10-18. https://scitechdaily.com/prototype-large-scale-quantum-processor-made-entirely-of-light/.
- ↑ "Error: no
|title=specified when using {{Cite web}}" (in ja). 2016-11-02. https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXLZO09062450R01C16A1CR8000/.
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