Fernando Brandão
| Fernando Brandão | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born |
1983 Belo Horizonte, Brazil |
| Residence | United States |
| Fields | physics, computer science, mathematics |
| Institutions | California Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Martin Bodo Plenio |
Fernando Brandão (born 22 January 1983, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) is a Brazilian physicist and computer scientist working on quantum information and quantum computation. He is currently the Bren Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology.[1] Before he was a Researcher at Microsoft and a Reader in Computer Science at University College London.
Some of Brandão's main contributions involve the development of the theory of quantum entanglement. Together with Martin Bodo Plenio he developed a reversible framework for quantum entanglement inspired by thermodynamics.[2] Together with Matthias Christandl and Jon Yard he showed that the problem of deciding whether a quantum state is entangled can be solved in quasi-polynomial time.[3] Together with Michal Horodecki he proved an area law for entanglement in every one-dimensional quantum state with a finite correlation length.[4]
He is an editor of the journal Physics Reports.[5] He was awarded the 2013 European Quantum Information Young Investigator Award for "for his highly appraised achievements in entanglement theory, quantum complexity theory, and quantum many-body physics, which combine dazzling mathematical ability and impressive physical insight" [6]
References
- ↑ "Caltech Academic Page".
- ↑ "Entanglement Theory and the Second Law of Thermodynamics, Nature Physics 4, 873 - 877 (2008)".
- ↑ "A QuasiPolynomial-Time Algorithm for the Quantum Separability Problem, STOC '11".
- ↑ "An area law for entanglement from exponential decay of correlations, Nature Physics 9, 721–726 (2013)".
- ↑ "Editorial Board of Physics Reports".
- ↑ "2013 European Quantum Information Young Investigator Award".