Seth Lloyd
Seth Lloyd | |
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Seth Lloyd in 2013 | |
| Born | August 2, 1960 |
| Alma mater | Phillips Academy Harvard College Cambridge University Rockefeller University |
| Known for | Coherent information Continuous-variable quantum information Dynamical decoupling Effective complexity HHL algorithm Quantum capacity Quantum illumination |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Quantum information science |
| Institutions | MIT Caltech Los Alamos Santa Fe Institute |
| Doctoral advisor | Heinz Pagels |
Seth Lloyd (born August 2, 1960) is an American quantum information scientist and professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering.
He is known for work in quantum information science, including work on designs for a quantum computer, quantum analog computation, quantum analogs of Shannon's theorem, and methods for quantum error correction and noise reduction.