Daniel Loss
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| Daniel Loss | |
| Residence | Basel, Switzerland  |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions | University of Basel |
| Alma mater | University of Zurich |
| Doctoral advisor | A. Thellung |
| Known for | Proposing, with David P. DiVincenzo, the Loss-DiVincenzo quantum computer |
| Notable awards | The Humboldt Prize (2005) |
Daniel Loss is a professor of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Basel. With David P. DiVincenzo (at IBM Research), he proposed the Loss-DiVincenzo quantum computer in 1997[1], which would use electron spins in quantum dots as qubits.
[edit] References
- ^ D. Loss and D. P. DiVincenzo, "Quantum computation with quantum dots", Phys. Rev. A 57, p120 (1998); on arXiv.org in Jan. 1997
