Alexei Kitaev
Alexei Yurievich Kitaev | |
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| Алексей Юрьевич Китаев | |
| Born | August 23, 1963 |
| Alma mater | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology |
| Known for | Kitaev chain Kitaev spin liquid Kitaev's periodic table Toric code Sachdev–Ye–Kitaev model Quantum phase estimation Solovay–Kitaev theorem Magic state distillation Gottesman–Kitaev–Preskill codes Quantum threshold theorem QIP QMA |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Topological quantum field theory Quantum computing |
| Institutions | California Institute of Technology Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics |
| Thesis | Electronic properties of quasicrystals Russian: Электронные свойства квазикристаллов (1989) |
| Doctoral advisor | Valery Pokrovsky |
Alexei Yurievich Kitaev (Russian: Алексей Юрьевич Китаев; born August 26, 1963) is a Russian–American professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology and permanent member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics.[1] He is best known for introducing the quantum phase estimation algorithm and the concept of the topological quantum computer[2] while working at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics. He is also known for introducing the complexity class QMA and showing the 2-local Hamiltonian problem is QMA-complete, the most complete result for k-local Hamiltonians.[3] Kitaev is also known for contributions to research on a model relevant to researchers of the AdS/CFT correspondence started by Subir Sachdev and Jinwu Ye; this model is known as the Sachdev–Ye–Kitaev (SYK) model.[4]
Life
[edit]Kitaev was educated in Russia, receiving an M.Sc. from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1986), and a Ph.D. from the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics under the supervision of Valery Pokrovsky in 1989.[5] He served previously as a researcher (1999–2001) at Microsoft Research, a research associate (1989–1998) at the Landau Institute and a professor at Caltech (2002–present).[1]
Honors and awards
[edit]In 2008 Kitaev was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
In July 2012, he was an inaugural awardee of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, the creation of physicist and internet entrepreneur, Yuri Milner.[6]
In 2015, he was jointly awarded the 2015 Dirac Medal by ICTP.[7]
In 2017, he was, together with Xiao-Gang Wen, the winner of the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.[8]
In 2021, he was elected into the National Academy of Sciences.[9]
In 2024, he received the Henri Poincaré Prize from the International Association of Mathematical Physics.[10]
In 2024, he was awarded a 2024 Basic Science Lifetime Award in Theoretical Physics.
Political positions
[edit]In February–March 2022, he signed an open letter by Breakthrough Prize laureates condemning the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[11]
See also
[edit]- Kitaev chain
- Magic state distillation
- Quantum threshold theorem
- Quantum Interactive Polynomial time
- Solovay–Kitaev theorem
- Topological entanglement entropy
- Toric code
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Alexei Y. Kitaev". California Institute of Technology. Archived from the original on 11 February 2013. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
- ^ Kitaev, A. Yu. (2003). "Fault-tolerant quantum computation by anyons". Annals of Physics. 303 (1): 2–30. arXiv:quant-ph/9707021v1. Bibcode:2003AnPhy.303....2K. doi:10.1016/S0003-4916(02)00018-0. S2CID 119087885.
- ^ Dorit Aharonov; Tomer Naveh (2002). "Quantum NP—A Survey". arXiv:quant-ph/0210077.
- ^ Kitaev, Alexei; Suh, S. Josephine (2017). "The soft mode in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model and its gravity dual". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2018 (5): 183. arXiv:1711.08467. Bibcode:2018JHEP...05..183K. doi:10.1007/JHEP05(2018)183. S2CID 55052843.
- ^ "Диссертации, подготовленные или защищенные в ИТФ им. Л.Д. Ландау". www.itp.ac.ru. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
- ^ "New annual US$3 million Fundamental Physics Prize recognizes transformative advances in the field". Fundamental Physics Prize. Archived from the original on 2012-08-03. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ^ "2015 Dirac Medallists announced - Gonit Sora". 9 August 2015.
- ^ "Kitaev and Wen awarded 2017 APS Buckley Prize".
- ^ "2021 NAS Election". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
- ^ "ICMP 2024". icmp2024.org. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
- ^ An open letter from Breakthrough Prize laureates
External links
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- Living people
- MacArthur Fellows
- California Institute of Technology faculty
- Soviet physicists
- 20th-century American physicists
- Simons Investigator
- Quantum information scientists
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology alumni
- Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize winners
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- 1963 births