Biography:Pieter Kok
Pieter Kok | |
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| Born | June 1972 (age 52) Friesland, Netherlands |
| Alma mater | University of Utrecht University of Wales, Bangor |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Quantum information theory |
| Thesis | State Preparation in Quantum Optics (2001) |
| Doctoral advisor | Samuel L. Braunstein |
Pieter Kok (born in June 1972) is a Dutch physicist and one of the co-developers of quantum interferometric optical lithography.
Kok was born in Friesland in the Netherlands. In 1997 he graduated from the University of Utrecht with a degree in Foundations of Quantum Theory. In 2001, he received his PhD in physics from the University of Wales, Bangor. His research specializations include linear optical implementations of quantum communication and computation protocols, quantum teleportation and the interpretation of quantum theory. [1] Dr. Kok has worked in the Quantum Computing Technologies Group at the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California , Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Bristol, England and at the Department of Materials, University of Oxford. He is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Sheffield. [2] [3] [4]
He and his wife,[5] Rose Roberto,[6] live in northern England with their two children.
References
Selected publications
- Boto, Agedi N.; Kok, Pieter; Abrams, Daniel S.; Braunstein, Samuel L.; Williams, Colin P.; Dowling, Jonathan P. (25 September 2000). "Quantum Interferometric Optical Lithography: Exploiting Entanglement to Beat the Diffraction Limit". Physical Review Letters 85 (13): 2733–2736. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.2733. PMID 10991220. Bibcode: 2000PhRvL..85.2733B.
- Barrett, Sean D.; Kok, Pieter (24 June 2005). "Efficient high-fidelity quantum computation using matter qubits and linear optics". Physical Review A 71 (6): 060310. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.71.060310. Bibcode: 2005PhRvA..71f0310B.
- Kok, Pieter; Barrett, Sean D; Spiller, Timothy P (1 July 2005). "Preparing multi-partite entanglement of photons and matter qubits". Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics 7 (7): S166–S170. doi:10.1088/1464-4266/7/7/006. Bibcode: 2005JOptB...7S.166K.
- Kok, Pieter; Lovett, Brendon W. (November 2006). "Qubits in the pink". Nature 444 (7115): 49. doi:10.1038/444049a. PMID 17080080.
- Kok, Pieter; Munro, W. J.; Nemoto, Kae; Ralph, T. C.; Dowling, Jonathan P.; Milburn, G. J. (24 January 2007). "Linear optical quantum computing with photonic qubits". Reviews of Modern Physics 79 (1): 135–174. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.79.135. Bibcode: 2007RvMP...79..135K.
- Campbell, Earl T; Fitzsimons, Joseph; Benjamin, Simon C; Kok, Pieter (29 June 2007). "Efficient growth of complex graph states via imperfect path erasure". New Journal of Physics 9 (6): 196. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/9/6/196. Bibcode: 2007NJPh....9..196C.
- Kok, Pieter; Lovett, Brendon W. (2010). Introduction to Optical Quantum Information Processing. ISBN 978-1-139-19365-8.
External links
- "Quantum Computing" in "The Material World". 6 April 2006. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/thematerialworld_20060406.shtml.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120209122709/http://ldsd.group.shef.ac.uk/members/?name=Kok
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