Patrick Hayden (scientist)

Patrick Hayden is a physicist and computer scientist active in the fields of quantum information theory and quantum computing. He is currently a professor in the Stanford University physics department and a distinguished research chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Prior to that he held a Canada Research Chair in the physics of information at McGill University. He received a B.Sc. (1998) from McGill University and won a Rhodes Scholarship to study for a D.Phil. (2001) at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Artur Ekert. In 2007 he was awarded the Sloan Research Fellowship in Computer Science. He was a Canadian Mathematical Society Public Lecturer in 2008 and received a Simons Investigator Award in 2014.^[1]

Hayden contributed substantially to quantum information theory. His contributions range from quantum information approaches to the theory of black holes^[2]^[3] to the study of quantum entanglement.^[4] Hayden and John Preskill considered information retrieval from evaporating black holes. Their study of a black hole’s retention time for quantum information before it is revealed in the Hawking radiation; called the Hayden-Preskill thought experiment, turned out to be compatible with the black hole complementarity hypothesis.^[2]

References[edit]

^ Simons Foundation
^ ^a ^b Patrick Hayden, John Preskill, Black holes as mirrors: quantum information in random subsystems, JHEP 0709:120,2007. https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.4025v2
^ Amanda Gefter, Theoretical physics: Complexity on the horizon, Nature 509, 552–553 (29 May 2014).
^ Patrick Hayden, Debbie W. Leung, Andreas Winter, Aspects of generic entanglement, Comm. Math. Phys. Vol. 265, No. 1, pp. 95-117, 2006. https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0407049v2

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