Quantum error correction NMR quantum computing Linear optical quantum computing One Clean Qubit Gregory–Laflamme instability KLM protocol
Awards
CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
Scientific career
Fields
Theoretical Physics Quantum Information
Institutions
Institute for Quantum Computing Los Alamos National Laboratory University of Waterloo Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Doctoral advisor
Stephen Hawking
Raymond Laflamme (born 1960), OC, FRSC is a Canadian theoretical physicist and founder and until mid 2017, was the director of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo. He is also a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo and an associate faculty member at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Laflamme is currently a Canada Research Chair in Quantum Information.[1] In December 2017, he was named as one of the appointees to the Order of Canada.[2]
As Stephen Hawking's PhD student, he first became famous for convincing Hawking that time does not reverse in a contracting universe, along with Don Page. Hawking told the story of how this happened in his famous book A Brief History of Time in the chapter The Arrow of Time.[3] Later on Laflamme made a name for himself in quantum computing and quantum information theory, which is what he is famous for today. In 2005, Laflamme's research group created the world's largest quantum information processor with 12 qubits.[4] Along with Phillip Kaye and Michele Mosca, he published the book An Introduction to Quantum Computing in 2006.[5]
Laflamme's research focuses on understanding the impact of manipulating information using the laws of quantum mechanics, the development of methods to protect quantum information against noise through quantum control and quantum error correction for quantum computing and cryptography, the implementation of ideas and concepts of quantum information processing using nuclear magnetic resonance to develop scalable methods of control of quantum systems, and the development of blueprints for quantum information processors such as linear optical quantum computing.[6]
^"Canada Research Chair Chairholders - Raymond Laflamme". Retrieved 4 January 2013.
^Davis, Brent (31 December 2017). "Locals honoured with Order of Canada appointments". Retrieved 23 March 2018.
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Kaye, Phillip; Laflamme, Raymond; Mosca, Michele (November 2006). An Introduction to Quantum Computing. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198570004. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
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RaymondLaflamme (born 1960), OC, FRSC is a Canadian theoretical physicist and founder and until mid 2017, was the director of the Institute for Quantum...
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run backwards. A paper by Don Page and independent calculations by RaymondLaflamme led Hawking to withdraw this concept. Honours continued to be awarded:...
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academia, the private sector, and the federal and provincial governments. RaymondLaflamme is the founding executive director. At its establishment, the institute...
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(born 1959) Carlo Beenakker (born 1960) David Drabold (born 1960) RaymondLaflamme (born 1960) Cumrun Vafa (born 1960) Zvi Bern (born 1960) Stéphane Roux...
1103/RevModPhys.84.621. S2CID 119250535. John A. Holbrook, David W. Kribs, and RaymondLaflamme. "Noiseless Subsystems and the Structure of the Commutant in Quantum...
code that does the same with 7 instead of 9 qubits, see Steane code. RaymondLaflamme and collaborators found a class of 5-qubit codes that do the same,...
of Pauli decomposition coefficient estimation. Knill, Emanuel; Laflamme, RaymondLaflamme (1998). "Power of One Bit of Quantum Information". Physical Review...
quantum optics measurement device company UQDevices alongside physicist RaymondLaflamme. Thomas Jennewein obtained an engineering degree in physics from HTL...
Eminence Award Urbasi Sinha; Christophe Couteau; Thomas Jennewein; RaymondLaflamme; Gregor Weihs (1 July 2010). "Ruling out multi-order interference in...
1990. An Introduction to Quantum Computing. (2007). Phillip Kaye, RaymondLaflamme, and Michele Mosca. New York City: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-857049-3...
Retrieved January 11, 2010. Steve Paikin, Tara Hunt, Neil Gershenfeld, RaymondLaflamme, Jaron Lanier and Neal Stephenson (October 20, 2009). The Agenda with...
Ovide Laflamme (10 December 1925 – 29 June 1993) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Saint-Damien, Quebec and...
Award to study Time and Extra Dimensions in Space. Gregory, Ruth; Laflamme, Raymond (1993), "Black strings and p-branes are unstable", Physical Review...
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Professional and academic associations Preceded by Raymond Casgrain President of the Royal Society of Canada 1890–1891 Succeeded by Joseph-Clovis-Kemner Laflamme...
University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-63503-5, pp. 25. Kaye, Phillip; Laflamme, Raymond; Mosca, Michele (2007), An introduction to quantum computing, Oxford...
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