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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 2008 - CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Canadian Association of Physicists and Centre de Recherches Mathématiques

Overview

Richard Cleve is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada. Their research spans multiple fields including Physics and Astronomy, Computer Science, and Mathematics. The scientist's work covers several subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Artificial Intelligence; Applied Mathematics; Computational Theory and Mathematics; and Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics.

Their research topics include Quantum Mechanics and Applications, Quantum Information and Cryptography, Quantum and electron transport phenomena, Algebraic and Geometric Analysis, Matrix Theory and Algorithms, and Finite Group Theory Research.

Richard Cleve has published papers in notable venues including Quantum and arXiv (Cornell University). Recent publications are:

  • Constant gap between conventional strategies and those based on C*-dynamics for self-embezzlement, 2022, Quantum
  • Improved Clifford operations in constant commutative depth, 2025, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent collaborators in their publications include Benoît Collins, Li Liu, Vern I. Paulsen, ZP Ding, and Luke Schaeffer.

The scientist has been recognized with awards such as the Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2010 for the Academy of Science and the CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics awarded by the Canadian Association of Physicists and Centre de Recherches Mathématiques in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Elementary gates for quantum computation.

    Adriano Barenco;Charles H. Bennett;Richard Cleve;David P. DiVincenzo

  • HOW TO SHARE A QUANTUM SECRET

    Richard Cleve;Daniel Gottesman;Hoi-Kwong Lo

  • QUANTUM ALGORITHMS REVISITED

    Richard Cleve;Artur Ekert;Chiara Macchiavello;Michele Mosca

  • Quantum fingerprinting

    Harry Buhrman;Richard Cleve;John Watrous;Ronald de Wolf

  • Efficient Quantum Algorithms for Simulating Sparse Hamiltonians

    Dominic W. Berry;Dominic W. Berry;Graeme Ahokas;Richard Cleve;Richard Cleve;Barry C. Sanders;Barry C. Sanders

  • Exponential algorithmic speedup by a quantum walk

    Andrew M. Childs;Richard Cleve;Enrico Deotto;Edward Farhi

  • Quantum lower bounds by polynomials

    Robert Beals;Harry Buhrman;Richard Cleve;Michele Mosca

  • Exact and approximate unitary 2-designs and their application to fidelity estimation

    Christoph Dankert;Richard Cleve;Richard Cleve;Joseph Emerson;Etera Livine

  • Simulating Hamiltonian Dynamics with a Truncated Taylor Series

    Dominic W. Berry;Andrew M. Childs;Richard Cleve;Richard Cleve;Robin Kothari;Robin Kothari

  • Nonlocality and communication complexity

    Harry Buhrman;Richard R. Cleve;Serge Massar;Ronald De Wolf

  • Limits on the security of coin flips when half the processors are faulty

    R Cleve

  • Consequences and limits of nonlocal strategies

    R. Cleve;P. Hoyer;B. Toner;J. Watrous

  • Quantum vs. classical communication and computation

    Harry Buhrman;Richard Cleve;Avi Wigderson

  • Exponential improvement in precision for simulating sparse Hamiltonians

    Dominic W. Berry;Andrew M. Childs;Andrew M. Childs;Richard Cleve;Richard Cleve;Robin Kothari;Robin Kothari

  • Exponential algorithmic speedup by quantum walk

    Andrew M. Childs;Richard Cleve;Enrico Deotto;Edward Farhi

  • Quantum lower bounds by polynomials

    R. Beals;H. Buhrman;R. Cleve;M. Mosca

  • Experimental realization of an order-finding algorithm with an NMR quantum computer.

    Lieven M. K. Vandersypen;Lieven M. K. Vandersypen;Matthias Steffen;Matthias Steffen;Gregory Breyta;Costantino S. Yannoni

  • Oracles and Queries That Are Sufficient for Exact Learning

    Nader H. Bshouty;Richard Cleve;Ricard Gavaldà;Sampath Kannan

  • Fast parallel circuits for the quantum Fourier transform

    R. Cleve;J. Watrous

  • Quantum Entanglement and Communication Complexity

    Harry Buhrman;Richard Cleve;Wim van Dam

  • Teleportation as a quantum computation

    Gilles Brassard;Samuel L. Braunstein;Richard Cleve

Frequent Co-Authors

Harry Buhrman
Harry Buhrman University of Amsterdam
Andrew M. Childs
Andrew M. Childs University of Maryland, College Park
Michele Mosca
Michele Mosca University of Waterloo
Barry C. Sanders
Barry C. Sanders University of Calgary
Ronald de Wolf
Ronald de Wolf University of Amsterdam
Kazuo Iwama
Kazuo Iwama Kyoto University
Chiara Macchiavello
Chiara Macchiavello University of Pavia
Daniel Gottesman
Daniel Gottesman University of Maryland, College Park
Artur Ekert
Artur Ekert University of Oxford
Debbie Leung
Debbie Leung University of Waterloo

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