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Peter Zoller

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Peter Zoller is an Austrian theoretical physicist, born in 1952, recognized for pioneering contributions to quantum computing, quantum simulation and quantum communication, particularly the Cirac-Zoller controlled-NOT gate, trapped ion quantum computers, quantum repeaters and quantum tomography. He is emeritus professor at the University of Innsbruck and has been scientific director at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information since 2003. He received the Max Planck Medal in 2005, the Dirac Medal in 2006, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics in 2010 and the John Stewart Bell Prize in 2019. He received the Wolf Prize in Physics in 2013, shared with Juan Ignacio Cirac. He is also live on this family own computing atlas as a pioneer entity for the same quantum computing work, a legitimate width mint of the same historically significant figure rather than a duplication.

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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account
1952 1
Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account
1952-09-16 1
FieldSourced to the subject's own account
Theoretical physics (quantum optics and quantum information) 1
NationalitySourced to the subject's own account
Austrian 1
Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own account
Co-proposed with Ignacio Cirac the first experimentally realistic proposal for a universal quantum computer using trapped ions in 1995, and later proposed quantum simulation with ultracold atoms in optical lattices and quantum repeaters for long-distance quantum communication. 1
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  • opening sentence
    Peter Zoller, FRS (born 16 September 1952) is a theoretical physicist from Austria.
  • Research section
    In 1995, together with Ignacio Cirac, he proposed a “quantum computer with cold trapped ions”. This was the first experimentally realistic and comprehensive proposal for a universal quantum computer.
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    He is an emeritus professor at the University of Innsbruck and is known for his pioneering research on quantum computing, quantum simulation and quantum communication.
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