Daniel Loss

Daniel Loss
Born	February 25, 1958[1] Winterthur
Residence	Basel, Switzerland
Nationality	Swiss
Fields	Physicist
Institutions	University of Basel
Alma mater	University of Zurich
Doctoral advisor	Armin Thellung
Known for	Proposing, with David P. DiVincenzo, the Loss-DiVincenzo quantum computer
Notable awards	The Humboldt Prize (2005), Marcel Benoist Prize (2010)[2]

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,^[3] which would use electron spins in quantum dots as qubits.

References

1. ^ CV
2. ^ http://www.marcel-benoist.c
3. ^ D. Loss and D. P. DiVincenzo, "Quantum computation with quantum dots", Phys. Rev. A 57, p120 (1998); on arXiv.org in Jan. 1997

External links

• University of Basel biography & publications list

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