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ORCID iD:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1504-5039
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Address
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Recent Books:
Ultracold Gases and Quantum Information
ISBN-13: 9780199603657
(1 July 2011)
Ultracold Gases and Quantum Information: Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School in Singapore: Volume 91, July 2009
ISBN-13: 9780199603657
(5 May 2011)
The physics of quantum information
ISBN-13: 9783540667780
(2000)
Recent Publications:
Entanglement-based secure quantum cryptography over 1,120 kilometres
Nature
volume 582
page 501-505
(15 June 2020)
Quantum principle of relativity
New Journal of Physics
issue 3
volume 22
(17 February 2020)
A Relational Time-Symmetric Framework for Analyzing the Quantum Computational Speedup
FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICS
issue 10
volume 49
page 1200-1230
(October 2019)
Full text available
The power of independence
NATURE PHYSICS
issue 2
volume 14
page 114-115
(February 2018)
Full text available
Journeys from quantum optics to quantum technology
PROGRESS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
volume 54
page 19-45
(August 2017)
Full text available
Research interests:
My research extends over most aspects of information processing in quantum-mechanical systems. It is a cross-disciplinary field bringing together theoretical and experimental quantum physics, computer science and information theory. Its scope ranges from deep fundamental issues in physics to prospective commercial exploitation by the computing and communications industries.
My work is mostly theoretical but its results also bear directly on issues of experimental implementation. One reason why it has attracted attention from industry and government agencies is that quantum cryptography can guarantee perfectly secure communication. Another is that projected quantum computers will be capable of efficiently solving some problems (including factorisation, which has a bearing on cryptanalysis) for which there is believed to be no efficient classical algorithm.
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Major / recent publications:
Artur Ekert and Renato Renner, The ultimate physical limits of privacy, Nature 507, 443–447 (27 March 2014).