Alexei Kitaev
Alexei Yurievich Kitaev | |
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| Алексей Юрьевич Китаев | |
| Born | August 23, 1963 |
| Alma mater | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology |
| Known for | Kitaev chain Kitaev spin liquid Kitaev's periodic table Toric code Sachdev–Ye–Kitaev model Quantum phase estimation Solovay–Kitaev theorem Magic state distillation Gottesman–Kitaev–Preskill code Quantum threshold theorem QIP QMA |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Condensed matter theory Quantum computing |
| Institutions | California Institute of Technology Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics |
| Thesis | Electronic properties of quasicrystals (Russian: Электронные свойства квазикристаллов) (1989) |
| Doctoral advisor | Valery Pokrovsky |
Alexei Yurievich Kitaev (Russian: Алексей Юрьевич Китаев; born August 26, 1963) is a Russian-American theoretical physicist.
He is currently a professor of theoretical physics and mathematics at the California Institute of Technology.
Kitaev has received multiple awards recognizing his contributions to quantum information science and condensed matter physics, particularly in quantum computation and topological phases of matter.