- Pieter Kok
Pieter Kok, Ph.D. (born
June 17 1972 ) is one of the co-developers of quantum interferometric opticallithography . [ [http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v85/p2733 Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 (2000): Agedi N. Boto, Pieter Kok, Daniel S. Abrams, Samuel L. Braunstein, Colin P. Williams, and Jonathan P. Dowling - Quantum Interferometric Optical Lithography: ] ]Dr. Kok was born in
Friesland in theNetherlands . In 1997 he graduated from theUniversity of Utrecht with a degree in Foundations of Quantum Theory. In 2001, he received his PhD in physics from theUniversity of Wales, Bangor . His research specializations include linear optical implementations ofquantum communication and computation protocols,quantum teleportation and the interpretation of quantum theory. Dr. Kok has worked in the Quantum Computing Technologies Group at theNASA /Jet Propulsion Laboratory , in Pasadena,California ,Hewlett-Packard Laboratories inBristol ,England and at the Department of Materials [http://www.materials.ox.ac.uk] inOxford University . He is currently teaching and researching at the University of Sheffield. [ [http://www.pieter-kok.staff.shef.ac.uk Pieter Kok's Home Page ] ]He and his wife, Rose Roberto, live in northern England with their son.
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External links
*http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7115/full/444049a.html;jsessionid=683D345C02704C3BA168E32EC077DA3E
*http://www.iqc.ca/~kresch/Media_files/NewScientist_Danube.pdf
*http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/thematerialworld_20060406.shtml (bottom of page under Quantum Computing section)
*http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v85/p2733
*http://link.aps.org/abstract/RMP/v79/p135
*http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1367-2630/9/6/196/
*http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/-search=38249546.1/1367-2630/9/6/196
*http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/-search=38249546.2/1464-4266/7/7/006
*http://ldsd.group.shef.ac.uk/members/?name=Kok
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