Seth Lloyd
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Seth Lloyd in 2013
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| Born | August 2, 1960 |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology Los Alamos National Laboratory Santa Fe Institute |
| Alma mater |
Phillips Academy (1978) Harvard College (A.B., 1982) Cambridge University (M.Phil, 1984) Rockefeller University (Ph.D. physics, 1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Heinz Pagels |
| Doctoral students | Daniel S. Abrams Richard Joseph Nelson Lin Tian |
| Known for | Studying limits of computation Programming the Universe |
Seth Lloyd (born August 2, 1960) is a professor of mechanical engineering and physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He refers to himself as a "quantum mechanic".
His research area is the interplay of information with complex systems, especially quantum systems. He has performed seminal work in the fields of quantum computation, quantum communication and quantum biology, including proposing the first technologically feasible design for a quantum computer, demonstrating the viability of quantum analog computation, proving quantum analogs of Shannon's noisy channel theorem, and designing novel methods for quantum error correction and noise reduction.
Lloyd was born on August 2, 1960. He graduated from Phillips Academy in 1978 and received a bachelor of arts degree from Harvard College in 1982. He earned a certificate of advanced study in mathematics and a master of philosophy degree from Cambridge University in 1983 and 1984, while on a Marshall Scholarship. Lloyd was awarded a doctorate by Rockefeller University in 1988 (advisor Heinz Pagels) after submitting a thesis on Black Holes, Demons, and the Loss of Coherence: How Complex Systems Get Information, and What They Do With It.
From 1988 to 1991, Lloyd was a postdoctoral fellow in the High Energy Physics Department at the California Institute of Technology, where he worked with Murray Gell-Mann on applications of information to quantum-mechanical systems. From 1991 to 1994, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he worked at the Center for Nonlinear Systems on quantum computation. In 1994, he joined the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Since 1988, Lloyd has also been an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute.
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