Thomas Jennewein

Thomas Jennewein
NationalityAustrian
Alma mater
Known for
Awards
  • Loschmidt-Prize of the Austrian Physical-Chemical Society (2002)[1]
  • International ARC Research Fellowship, Australian Research Council (2007)[2]
  • Wilhelm Exner Medal (2018)[3]
Scientific career
FieldsQuantum key distribution, Quantum optics
Institutions
Thesis

Thomas Jennewein is an Austrian physicist who conducts research in quantum communication and quantum key distribution. He has taught as an associate professor at the University of Waterloo and the Institute for Quantum Computing in Waterloo, Canada since 2009.[4] He earned his PhD under Anton Zeilinger at the University of Vienna in 2002, during which time he performed experiments on Bell's inequality and cryptography with entangled photons.[5][7] His current work at the Institute for Quantum Computing focuses on satellite-based free space quantum key distribution, with the goal of creating a global quantum network.[9][10]

He is also an affiliate of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,[11] a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research,[1] and CEO and co-founder of quantum optics measurement device company UQDevices alongside physicist Raymond Laflamme.[12]

  1. ^ a b "CIFAR Profile". Retrieved 2017-06-18.
  2. ^ a b "UWaterloo Profile". Retrieved 2017-06-18.
  3. ^ "Wilhelm Exner Medal 2018". Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  4. ^ a b "IQC Profile". Retrieved 2017-06-18.
  5. ^ a b G. Weihs, T. Jennewein, C. Simon, H. Weinfurter, and A. Zeilinger, "Violation of Bell's Inequality under Strict Einstein Locality Conditions", Physical Review Letters 81, 5031 (1998), doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.5039
  6. ^ L. K. Shalm, E. Meyer-Scott, B. G. Christensen, P. Bierhorst, M. A. Wayne, M. J. Stevens, T. Gerrits, S. Glancy, D. R. Hamel, M. S. Allman, K. J. Coakley, S. D. Dyer, C. Hodge, A. E. Lita, V. B. Berma, C. Lambrocco, E. Tortorici, A. L. Migdall, Y. Zhang, D. R. Kumor, W. H. Farr, F. Marsili, M. D. Shaw, J. A. Stern, C. Abellán, W. Amaya, V. Pruneri, T. Jennewein, M. W. Mitchell, P. G. Kwiat, J. C. Bienfang, R. P. Mirin, E. Knill, and S. W. Nam, "Strong Loophole-Free Test of Local Realism", Physical Review Letters 115, 250402 (2015), doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.250402
  7. ^ a b T. Jennewein, C. Simon, G. Weihs, H. Weinfurter, and A. Zeilinger, "Quantum Cryptography with Entangled Photons", Physical Review Letters 84, 4729 (2000), doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.4729
  8. ^ R. Ursin, F. Tiefenbacher, T. Schmitt-Manderbach, H. Weier, T. Scheidl, M. Lindenthal, B. Blauensteiner, T. Jennewein, J. Perdigues, P. Trojek, B. Ömer, M. Fürst, M. Meyenburg, J. Rarity, Z. Sodnik, C. Barbieri, H. Weinfurter, and A. Zeilinger, "Entanglement-based quantum communication over 144km", Nature Physics 3, 481-486 (2007), doi:10.1038/nphys629
  9. ^ T. Jennewein and B. Higgins, "The quantum space race", Physics World 26, (03) 52 (2013), doi:10.1088/2058-7058/26/03/37
  10. ^ "Quantum communication in the back of a pick-up". 2013-06-06. Retrieved 2017-06-18.
  11. ^ "Perimeter Institute Profile". Retrieved 2017-06-18.
  12. ^ "UQDevices". Retrieved 2017-06-18.