David DiVincenzo

David P. DiVincenzo
Born1959 (age 64–65)
Nationality USA American
Alma mater
Known for
SpouseBarbara Terhal[citation needed]
AwardsAlexander von Humboldt Professorship (2011)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics (theoretical)
Institutions
Doctoral advisorEugene J. Mele

David P. DiVincenzo (born 1959) is an American theoretical physicist. He is the director of the Institute of Theoretical Nanoelectronics at the Peter Grünberg Institute at the Forschungszentrum Jülich and professor at the Institute for Quantum Information at RWTH Aachen University. With Daniel Loss (at the University of Basel), he proposed the Loss–DiVincenzo quantum computer in 1997,[2] which would use electron spins in quantum dots as qubits.[3]

  1. ^ "Alexander von Humboldt Professorship – Award Winners 2011". Archived from the original on 2018-10-20. Retrieved 2015-12-14.
  2. ^ D. Loss and D. P. DiVincenzo, "Quantum computation with quantum dots", Phys. Rev. A 57, p120 (1998); on arXiv.org in Jan. 1997
  3. ^ Hellemans, Alexander (2 October 2015). "David DiVincenzo on his Tenure at IBM and the Future of Quantum Computing". IEEE Spectrum. Retrieved 14 December 2015.