Daniel Gottesman
Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS)
3251 Atlantic Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20817
USA
dgottesm@umd.edu
I am the Brin Family Endowed Professor in Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Maryland. I am in the Computer Science department and a member of UMIACS and a QuICS Fellow. I got my Ph.D. at Caltech in 1997, and did
postdocs at Los Alamos National Lab and Microsoft Research, after
which I served in the UC Berkeley CS department as a Long-Term CMI
Prize Fellow with the Clay Mathematics Institute. I then spent 19 years as a faculty member at
Perimeter Institute in
Waterloo, Ontario before moving to Maryland.
Most of my work is in the field of quantum computation and quantum information. I have worked in a number of subfields, particularly quantum error correction,
fault-tolerant quantum computation, quantum complexity, and
quantum cryptography. I am best known for developing the stabilizer
code formalism for creating and describing a large class of quantum
codes, and for work on performing quantum
gates using quantum teleportation.
I was named to the MIT Technology Review's TR100:
Top Young Innovators for 2003 and I am an APS Fellow.
Research
- Papers
- Some recent work:
- Some past work:
- Fault tolerance overhead (QIC 2014, arXiv:1310.2984 [quant-ph])
- Interferometric telescopes and quantum repeaters
(PRL 2012,
arXiv:1107.2939 [quant-ph])
- Complexity of translationally-invariant
spin systems
(FOCS 2009,
ToC 2013,
arXiv:0905.2419 [quant-ph])
- Threshold for fault-tolerant quantum
computation
(QIC 2006,
quant-ph/0504218)
- Authentication of quantum
messages
(FOCS 2002,
quant-ph/0205128)
- Digitizing continuous quantum
variables
(PRA 2001,
quant-ph/0008040)
- Quantum secret sharing
(PRL 1999,
quant-ph/9901025)
- Teleporting quantum gates (Nature 1999,
quant-ph/9908010)
- Stabilizer codes (Caltech Ph.D. thesis,
quant-ph/9705052)
- Information loss in black hole
evaporation
- Some talks (some animations Mac-only):
- List of resources to learn about
quantum error correction.
- My CV.
- Map of these pages.
- Physics Today article on
quantum cryptography (Nov. 2000
issue)
Teaching
- Introduction to Quantum Information Processing (CMSC 657, UMD). This is a graduate-level semester course introducing the ideas of quantum information.
- Introduction to Cryptography (CMSC 456, UMD). This is an undergraduate course on classical cryptography.
- Quantum Complexity (CMSC 858L, UMD). This is a graduate course giving an overview of quantum complexity.
- Quantum Error Correction and Fault Tolerance (CMSC 858G, UMD). This is the UMD version of my course on quantum error correction.
- Quantum Error Correction and Fault Tolerance. This is a semester graduate class for IQC taught either at PI or UW. The times it was at PI, the lectures were recorded. The course web pages contain problem sets and sometimes solution sets:
- PSI Quantum Information Review. This is an introduction to quantum information for Master's students at Perimeter. Each class consists of 14-15 one-hour recorded lectures:
Hobbies and Interests
I am married to Lucy Zhang. We have one son.
- Reading science fiction and fantasy
- Role-playing games
Here is a fairy tale I wrote one morning while I was in graduate school:
Snow White and the Seven Quarks. It should
not be taken to be representative of my own graduate experience.
Read my quantum error correction sonnet.
I was tapped to give an after-dinner speech at the QIP 2002
conference, and spoke about the penetration of
quantum computation into popular culture.
Last Updated: Feb. 16, 2024