Alexei Kitaev
Alexei Yurievich Kitaev (Russian: Алексей Юрьевич
Китаев; born August 26, 1963) is a Russian–American Alexei Yurievich Kitaev
professor of physics at the California Institute of Алексей Юрьевич Китаев
Technology and permanent member of the Kavli Born August 23, 1963
Institute for Theoretical Physics.[1] He is best known Moscow, Soviet Union
for introducing the quantum phase estimation Alma mater Moscow Institute of Physics and
algorithm and the concept of the topological quantum Technology
computer[2] while working at the Landau Institute for
Known for Kitaev chain
Theoretical Physics. He is also known for introducing
Kitaev spin liquid
the complexity class QMA and showing the 2-local
Kitaev's periodic table
Hamiltonian problem is QMA-complete, the most
Toric code
complete result for k-local Hamiltonians.[3] Kitaev is
Sachdev–Ye–Kitaev model
also known for contributions to research on a model
Quantum phase estimation
relevant to researchers of the AdS/CFT correspondence Solovay–Kitaev theorem
started by Subir Sachdev and Jinwu Ye; this model is
Magic state distillation
known as the Sachdev–Ye–Kitaev (SYK) model.[4]
Gottesman–Kitaev–Preskill
codes
Quantum threshold theorem
Life QIP
QMA
Kitaev was educated in Russia, receiving an M.Sc.
Awards Breakthrough Prize in
from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
(1986), and a Ph.D. from the Landau Institute for Fundamental Physics (2012)
Theoretical Physics under the supervision of Valery Dirac Medal (2015)
Pokrovsky in 1989.[5] He served previously as a Oliver E. Buckley Condensed
researcher (1999–2001) at Microsoft Research, a Matter Prize (2017)
research associate (1989–1998) at the Landau Institute Henri Poincaré Prize (2024)
and a professor at Caltech (2002–present).[1]
Scientific career
Fields Topological quantum field theory
Honors and awards Quantum computing
Institutions California Institute of Technology
In 2008 Kitaev was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. Kavli Institute for Theoretical
Physics
In July 2012, he was an inaugural awardee of the
Thesis Electronic properties of
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, the
quasicrystals Russian:
creation of physicist and internet entrepreneur, Yuri
Электронные свойства
Milner.[6]
квазикристаллов (1989)
In 2015, he was jointly awarded the 2015 Dirac Medal Doctoral Valery Pokrovsky
by ICTP.[7] advisor
In 2017, he was, together with Xiao-Gang Wen, the winner of the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter
Prize.[8]
In 2021, he was elected into the National Academy of Sciences.[9]
In 2024, he received the Henri Poincaré Prize from the International Association of Mathematical
Physics.[10]
In 2024, he was awarded a 2024 Basic Science Lifetime Award in Theoretical Physics.
Political positions
In February–March 2022, he signed an open letter by Breakthrough Prize laureates condemning the 2022
Russian invasion of Ukraine.[11]
See also
Kitaev chain
Magic state distillation
Quantum threshold theorem
Quantum Interactive Polynomial time
Solovay–Kitaev theorem
Topological entanglement entropy
Toric code
References
1. "Alexei Y. Kitaev" (https://web.archive.org/web/20130211115801/http://www.cms.caltech.ed
u/people/3083/profile). California Institute of Technology. Archived from the original (http://w
ww.cms.caltech.edu/people/3083/profile) on 11 February 2013. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
2. Kitaev, A. Yu. (2003). "Fault-tolerant quantum computation by anyons". Annals of Physics.
303 (1): 2–30. arXiv:quant-ph/9707021v1 (https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9707021v1).
Bibcode:2003AnPhy.303....2K (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003AnPhy.303....2K).
doi:10.1016/S0003-4916(02)00018-0 (https://doi.org/10.1016%2FS0003-4916%2802%2900
018-0). S2CID 119087885 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:119087885).
3. Dorit Aharonov; Tomer Naveh (2002). "Quantum NP—A Survey". arXiv:quant-ph/0210077 (h
ttps://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0210077).
4. Kitaev, Alexei; Suh, S. Josephine (2017). "The soft mode in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model
and its gravity dual". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2018 (5): 183. arXiv:1711.08467 (http
s://arxiv.org/abs/1711.08467). Bibcode:2018JHEP...05..183K (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/
abs/2018JHEP...05..183K). doi:10.1007/JHEP05(2018)183 (https://doi.org/10.1007%2FJHE
P05%282018%29183). S2CID 55052843 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:550528
43).
5. "Диссертации, подготовленные или защищенные в ИТФ им. Л.Д. Ландау" (http://www.it
p.ac.ru/ru/dissertation-council/thesis/). www.itp.ac.ru. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
6. "New annual US$3 million Fundamental Physics Prize recognizes transformative advances
in the field" (https://web.archive.org/web/20120803211628/http://www.fundamentalphysicspr
ize.org/news.html). Fundamental Physics Prize. Archived from the original (http://fundament
alphysicsprize.org/news.html) on 2012-08-03. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
7. "2015 Dirac Medallists announced - Gonit Sora" (http://gonitsora.com/2015-dirac-medallists-
announced/). 9 August 2015.
8. "Kitaev and Wen awarded 2017 APS Buckley Prize" (http://iqim.caltech.edu/2016/10/11/kita
ev-and-wen-awarded-2017-aps-buckley-prize/).
9. "2021 NAS Election" (http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/2021-nas-electio
n.html). www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
10. "ICMP 2024" (https://icmp2024.org/program-by-session.html). icmp2024.org. Retrieved
2024-07-14.
11. An open letter from Breakthrough Prize laureates (https://breakthroughprize.org/News/69)
External links
http://www.macfound.org/fellows/802/
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