Dorit Aharonov

Dorit Aharonov
Born	1970
Residence	Jerusalem, Israel
Fields	quantum computing
Institutions	Hebrew University
Alma mater	Hebrew University (B.Sc., Ph.D.) Weizmann Institute of Science (M.Sc.) Princeton University (post-doctorate) University of California Berkeley (post-doctorate)
Notable awards	Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research

Dorit Aharonov (Hebrew: דורית אהרונוב‎; born 1970) is an Israeli computer scientist specializing in quantum computing.

Aharonov graduated from Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a BSc in Mathematics and Physics in 1994. She then graduated from Weizmann Institute of Science with an MSc in Physics. She received her doctorate for Computer Science in 1999 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and her thesis was entitled "Noisy Quantum Computation." She also did her post-doctorate in the mathematics department of Princeton University, and in the computer science department of University of California Berkeley.^[1]

In 2005, Aharonov was profiled by the journal Nature as one of four "young theorists... who are making waves in their chosen fields.", and in the following year, she then received the Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research.

Dorit Aharonov is the niece of physicist Yakir Aharonov.

Research

Aharonov's research is mainly about quantum information processes, which includes:^[1][2]

• quantum algorithms
• quantum cryptography and computational complexity
• quantum error corrections and fault tolerance
• connections between quantum computation and quantum Markov chains and lattices
• quantum Hamiltonian complexity and its connections to condensed matter physics
• transition from quantum to classical physics
• understanding entanglement by studying quantum complexity

External links

• Aharonov's home page at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Profile in Nature
• Dorit Aharonov in panel discussion, "Harnessing Quantum Physics" with Michele Mosca, Avi Wigderson, Daniel Gottesman, Peter Shor,and Ignacio Cirac.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Institute for Quantum Computing". http://www.iqc.ca/people/person.php?id=144. Retrieved 2011-02-16. 
2. ^ "Dorit Aharonov's Home Page". http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~doria/. Retrieved 2011-02-16. 

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