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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1991 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For investigations in quantum field theory and theoretical cosmology, especially contributions regarding the properties of topological defects, chiral symmetry and its consequences, and the physics of the very early Universe
  • 1982 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

John Preskill is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Computer Science and Physics and Astronomy, with a significant focus on subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Additional areas of interest include Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Computational Theory and Mathematics, and Nuclear and High Energy Physics.

The main topics covered in Preskill's work include Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture, Quantum Information and Cryptography, Quantum many-body systems, Quantum Mechanics and Applications, and Quantum and electron transport phenomena. Their research also addresses Machine Learning in Materials Science as well as Quantum chaos and dynamical systems.

Preskill has published frequently in a variety of scientific journals and platforms. The top venues for their publications are arXiv (Cornell University) with 34 papers, followed by PRX Quantum with 7 publications. Other notable venues include Physical Review Letters (5 publications), Science (4 publications), and Nature Communications (3 publications).

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by John Preskill include:

  • "Quantum advantage in learning from experiments," 2022, Science
  • "The randomized measurement toolbox," 2022, Nature Reviews Physics
  • "Mixed-State Entanglement from Local Randomized Measurements," 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • "Building a Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer Using Concatenated Cat Codes," 2022, PRX Quantum
  • "Quantum Simulation for High-Energy Physics," 2023, PRX Quantum

Frequent collaborators in Preskill's research include Hsin-Yuan Huang, Richard Kueng, Victor V. Albert, Steven T. Flammia, and Sitan Chen.

John Preskill has been recognized with several awards throughout their career. They were named a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2014. In 1991, they were elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) with the citation acknowledging contributions to quantum field theory and theoretical cosmology, particularly regarding properties of topological defects, chiral symmetry, and physics of the very early Universe. Earlier in their career, Preskill received a fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1982.

Best Publications

  • Cosmology of the invisible axion

    John Preskill;Mark B. Wise;Frank Wilczek

  • Quantum Computing in the NISQ era and beyond

    John Preskill

  • Topological entanglement entropy

    Alexei Kitaev;Alexei Kitaev;John Preskill

  • Topological quantum memory

    Eric Dennis;Alexei Kitaev;Andrew Landahl;John Preskill

  • Encoding a qubit in an oscillator

    Daniel Gottesman;Daniel Gottesman;Alexei Kitaev;John Preskill

  • Black holes as mirrors: Quantum information in random subsystems

    Patrick Hayden;John Preskill

  • RELIABLE QUANTUM COMPUTERS

    John Preskill

  • Cosmological Production of Superheavy Magnetic Monopoles

    John P. Preskill

  • Predicting many properties of a quantum system from very few measurements

    Hsin-Yuan Huang;Richard Kueng;Richard Kueng;John Preskill

  • Holographic quantum error-correcting codes: Toy models for the bulk/boundary correspondence

    Fernando Pastawski;Beni Yoshida;Daniel Harlow;John Preskill

  • Vortices and monopoles.

    J. Preskill

  • Quantum accuracy threshold for concatenated distance-3 codes

    Panos Aliferis;Daniel Gottesman;John Preskill

  • Robustness of adiabatic quantum computation

    Andrew M. Childs;Edward Farhi;John Preskill

  • Quantum Algorithms for Quantum Field Theories

    Stephen P. Jordan;Keith S. M. Lee;John Preskill

  • Efficient networks for quantum factoring.

    David Beckman;Amalavoyal N. Chari;Srikrishna Devabhaktuni;John Preskill

  • Secure quantum key distribution using squeezed states

    Daniel Gottesman;John Preskill

  • Subgroup alignment in hypercolor theories

    John Preskill

  • Do Black Holes Destroy Information

    John Preskill

  • Quantum computing and the entanglement frontier

    John Preskill

  • Topological Quantum Computation

    R. Walter Ogburn;John Preskill

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Gottesman
Daniel Gottesman University of Maryland, College Park
Liang Jiang
Liang Jiang University of Chicago
Hoi-Kwong Lo
Hoi-Kwong Lo University of Toronto
Mark B. Wise
Mark B. Wise California Institute of Technology
Christopher Monroe
Christopher Monroe University of Maryland, College Park
Mikhail D. Lukin
Mikhail D. Lukin Harvard University
Andrew M. Childs
Andrew M. Childs University of Maryland, College Park

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