Biography:Robert Spekkens

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Short description: Canadian theoretical quantum physicist
Robert Spekkens
NationalityCanadian
CitizenshipCanadian
Alma materMcGill University, University of Toronto
Known forSpekkens toy model;
quantum contextuality
AwardsBirkhoff-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
FieldsPhysicist
InstitutionsPerimeter 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]

Career

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]

Awards

  • 2012 FQXI Essay contest "Questioning the Foundations: Which of Our Assumptions Are Wrong?"[20]

References

  1. ↑ Castelvecchi, Davide (2018-09-18). "Reimagining of Schrödinger's cat breaks quantum mechanics — and stumps physicists" (in en). Nature 561 (7724): 446–447. doi:10.1038/d41586-018-06749-8. PMID 30254348. 
  2. ↑ Cavalcanti, Eric. "Schrödinger's cat gets a reality check" (in en). http://theconversation.com/schrodingers-cat-gets-a-reality-check-37278. 
  3. ↑ Castelvecchi, Davide (19 September 2018). "Reimagining of Schrödinger's Cat Breaks Quantum Mechanics and Stumps Physicists" (in en). Nature 561 (7724): 446–447. doi:10.1038/d41586-018-06749-8. PMID 30254348. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reimagining-of-schroedingers-cat-breaks-quantum-mechanics-mdash-and-stumps-physicists1/. Retrieved 2022-04-14. 
  4. ↑ Harrigan, Nicholas; Spekkens, Robert W. (2010-02-01). "Einstein, Incompleteness, and the Epistemic View of Quantum States" (in en). Foundations of Physics 40 (2): 125–157. doi:10.1007/s10701-009-9347-0. ISSN 1572-9516. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-009-9347-0. 
  5. ↑ Spekkens, Robert W. (March 19, 2007). "Evidence for the epistemic view of quantum states: A toy theory". Physical Review A 75 (3): 032110. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.75.032110. Bibcode: 2007PhRvA..75c2110S. 
  6. ↑ "Entangled photons cast a new light on cause and effect" (in en-GB). 2015-03-30. https://physicsworld.com/a/entangled-photons-cast-a-new-light-on-cause-and-effect/. 
  7. ↑ Spekkens, R. W. (2005-05-31). "Contextuality for preparations, transformations, and unsharp measurements". Physical Review A 71 (5): 052108. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.71.052108. https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.71.052108. 
  8. ↑ Liang, Yeong-Cherng; Spekkens, Robert W.; Wiseman, Howard M. (2011-09-01). "Specker's parable of the overprotective seer: A road to contextuality, nonlocality and complementarity" (in en). Physics Reports 506 (1): 1–39. doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2011.05.001. ISSN 0370-1573. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370157311001517. 
  9. ↑ Musser, George (2016-01-19). "Quantum Weirdness Now a Matter of Time" (in en). https://www.quantamagazine.org/time-entanglement-raises-quantum-mysteries-20160119/. 
  10. ↑ Brandão, Fernando G. S. L.; Horodecki, Michał; Oppenheim, Jonathan; Renes, Joseph M.; Spekkens, Robert W. (2013-12-18). "Resource Theory of Quantum States Out of Thermal Equilibrium". Physical Review Letters 111 (25): 250404. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.250404. PMID 24483734. https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.250404. 
  11. ↑ Gour, Gilad; Spekkens, Robert W. (2008-03-17). "The resource theory of quantum reference frames: manipulations and monotones" (in en). New Journal of Physics 10 (3): 033023. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/10/3/033023. ISSN 1367-2630. 
  12. ↑ Wood, Christopher J; Spekkens, Robert W (2015-03-03). "The lesson of causal discovery algorithms for quantum correlations: causal explanations of Bell-inequality violations require fine-tuning". New Journal of Physics 17 (3): 033002. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/17/3/033002. ISSN 1367-2630. 
  13. ↑ Leifer, M. S.; Spekkens, Robert W. (2013-11-27). "Towards a formulation of quantum theory as a causally neutral theory of Bayesian inference". Physical Review A 88 (5): 052130. doi:10.1103/physreva.88.052130. ISSN 1050-2947. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physreva.88.052130. 
  14. ↑ Colbeck, Roger; Renner, Renato (2016). Chiribella, Giulio; Spekkens, Robert W.. eds. "Quantum Theory: Informational Foundations and Foils" (in en-gb). Fundamental Theories of Physics 181. doi:10.1007/978-94-017-7303-4. ISBN 978-94-017-7302-7. ISSN 0168-1222. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-017-7303-4. 
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 "Robert Spekkens | Perimeter Institute". https://perimeterinstitute.ca/people/robert-spekkens. 
  16. ↑ "Quantum causal inference initiative | Perimeter Institute" (in en). https://perimeterinstitute.ca/quantum-causal-inference-initiative. 
  17. ↑ "12/13 PSI - Found Quantum Mechanics | PIRSA". https://pirsa.org/C13004. 
  18. ↑ "PSI master's program | Perimeter Institute". https://perimeterinstitute.ca/psi-masters-program. 
  19. ↑ "Robert Spekkens" (in en). 2012-04-02. https://uwaterloo.ca/physics-astronomy/about/people/robert-spekkens. 
  20. ↑ "The Paradigm of Kinematics and Dynamics Must Yield to Causal Structure by Robert W. Spekkens" (in en-US). https://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1558. 



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