William K. Wootters

【生年月日】

?年

【肩書】

ウィリアムズ大学 物理学部教授
等

【学歴】

学部…スタンフォード大学（1973年）
テキサス大学オースティン校でPhD取得（1980年、物理学）。

【予想授賞理由】

量子テレポーテーションに関する先駆的研究（Charles H. Bennett、Gilles Brassardとの共同受賞の可能性あり）

【著書】

• Wootters, W. K. (2006). Protecting Information: From Classical Error Correction to Quantum Cryptography. Cambridge University Press.

【主要業績】

• W. K. Wootters, "Statistical Distance and Hilbert Space," Phys. Rev. D 23, 357 (1981).
• W. K. Wootters and W. H. Zurek, "A Single Quantum Cannot Be Cloned," Nature 299, 802 (1982).
• W. K. Wootters, "A Wigner-Function Formulation of Finite-State Quantum Mechanics," Annals of Physics 176, 1 (1987).
• W. K. Wootters and C. G. Langton, “Is There a Sharp Phase Transition for Deterministic Cellular Automata?” Physica D 45, 95-104 (1990).
• A. Peres and W. K. Wootters, "Optimal Detection of Quantum Information," Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1119-1122 (1991).
• C. H. Bennett, G. Brassard, C. Crepeau, R. Jozsa, A. Peres, and W. K. Wootters, "Teleporting an Unknown Quantum State via Dual Classical and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Channels," Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 1895 (1993).
• L. P. Hughston, R. Jozsa, W. K. Wootters, "A complete classification of quantum ensembles having a given density matrix," Phys. Lett. A 183, 14-18 (1993).
• R. Jozsa, D. Robb ’93, and W. K. Wootters, "A Lower Bound for Accessible Information in Quantum Mechanics," Phys. Rev. A 49, 668 (1994).
• W. K. Wootters, "Is Time Asymmetry Logically Prior to Quantum Mechanics?" in Physical Origins of Time Asymmetry, ed. by J. Halliwell, J. Perez-Mercader and W. Zurek (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994).
• P. Hausladen '93 and W. K. Wootters, "A 'Pretty Good' Measurement for Distinguishing Quantum States," J. Mod. Optics, 41, 2385 (1994).
• P. Hausladen '93, R. Jozsa, B. Schumacher, M. Westmoreland, and W. K. Wootters, "Classical information capacity of a quantum channel," Phys. Rev. A 54, 1869 (1996).
• C. H. Bennett, G. Brassard, S. Popescu, B. Schumacher, J. A. Smolin, and W. K. Wootters, "Purification of Noisy Entanglement and Faithful Teleportation via Noisy Channels," Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 722 (1996).
• S. Hill '97 and W. K. Wootters, "Entanglement of a Pair of Quantum Bits," Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 5022 (1997).
• W. K. Wootters, "Entanglement of Formation of an Arbitrary State of Two Qubits," Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2245 (1998).
• V. Coffman, J. Kundu, and W. K. Wootters, "Distributed Entanglement," Phys. Rev. A 61, 052306 (2000).
• C. H. Bennett, D. P. DiVincenzo, J. A. Smolin, B. M. Terhal, and W. K. Wootters, "Remote State Preparation," Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 077902 (2000).
• K. M. O'Connor '00 and W. K. Wootters, "Entangled Rings," Phys. Rev. A 63, 052302 (2001).
• W. K. Wootters, "Entanglement of Formation and Concurrence," Quantum Information and Computation 1, 27 (2001).
• W. K. Wootters, "Entangled Chains," in Quantum Computation and Information, S. J. Lomonaco and H. E. Brandt, editors (American Mathematical Society, Providence, 2002), pp. 299-310.
• K. A. Dennison '01 and W. K. Wootters, "Entanglement Sharing among quantum Particles with More than Two Orthogonal States," Phys. Rev. A 65, 010301 (2002).
• W. K. Wootters, "Parallel Transport in an Entangled Ring," J. Math. Phys. 43, 4307 (2002).
• N. Linden, S. Popescu, and W. K. Wootters, "Almost Every Pure State of Three Qubits Is Completely Determined by Its Two-Particle Reduced Density Matrices," Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 207901 (2002).
• N. Linden and W. K. Wootters, "The Parts Determine the Whole in a Generic Pure Quantum State," Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 277906 (2002).
• S. R. Nichols '03 and W. K. Wootters, "Between Entropy and Subentropy," Quantum Information and Computation 3, 1 (2003).
• W. K. Wootters, "Why Things Fall," Foundations of Physics 33, 1549 (2003).
• W. K. Wootters, "Picturing Qubits in Phase Space,"IBM Journal of Research and Development 48, no. 1, p. 99 (2004).
• K. S. Gibbons '03, M. J. Hoffman '04, and W. K. Wootters, "Discrete Phase Space Based on Finite Fields," Phys. Rev. A 70, 062101 (2004).
• W. K. Wootters, "Quantum Measurements and Finite Geometry," Foundations of Physics 36, 112 (2006).
• W. K. Wootters, "Distinguishing Unentangled States with an Unentangled Measurement," Int. J. Quant. Inf. 4, 219 (2006).
• W. K. Wootters and D. M. Sussman, "Discrete phase space and minimum-uncertainty states," Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computation, 269 (2007).
• S. Bandyopadhyay, G. Brassard, S. Kimmel, and W. K. Wootters, "Entanglement Cost of Nonlocal Measurements," Phys. Rev. A 80, 012313 (2009).
• C. Chudzicki, O. Oke, and W. K. Wootters, "Entanglement and Composite Bosons," Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 070402 (2010).
• S. Bandyopadhyay, R. Rahaman, and W. K. Wootters, "Entanglement cost of two-qubit nonlocal orthogonal measurements," J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 43, 455303 (2010).
• M. S. Williamson, M. Ericsson. M. Johannson, E. Sjoqvist, A. Sudbery, V. Vedral, and W. K. Wootters, "Geometric local invariants and pure three-qubit states," Phys. Rev. A 83, 062308 (2011).
• "W. K. Wootters, Entanglement Sharing in Real-Vector-Space Quantum Theory," Found. Phys. 42, 19 (2012).
• L. Hardy and W. K. Wootters, "Limited Holism and Real-Vector-Space Quantum Theory," Found. Phys. 42, 454 (2012).
• A. Aleksandrova, V. Borish, and W. K. Wootters, "Real-vector-space quantum theory with a universal quantum bit," Phys. Rev. A 87, 052106 (2013).
• W. K. Wootters, "Communicating through Probabilities: Does Quantum Theory Optimize the Transfer of Information?" Entropy 15, 3220 (2013).

【本人HP】

• ウィリアムズ大学内のページ

【関連本】

• 佐藤勝彦 「「量子論」を楽しむ本 ミクロの世界から宇宙まで最先端物理学が図解でわかる! (PHP文庫)」 PHP研究所、2000年。
• ジョージ・ジョンソン 「量子コンピュータとは何か (ハヤカワ文庫NF―数理を愉しむシリーズ) (ハヤカワ文庫 NF 361 〈数理を愉しむ〉シリーズ)」 早川書房、2009年。
• 古澤 明 「量子テレポーテーション―瞬間移動は可能なのか? (ブルーバックス)」 講談社、2009年。