Alexei Kitaev
Alexei Yurievich Kitaev | |
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| Алексей Юрьевич Китаев | |
| Born | August 23, 1963 |
| Alma mater | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology |
| Known for | Kitaev chain Kitaev spin liquid Kitaev's periodic table Toric code Sachdev–Ye–Kitaev model Quantum phase estimation Solovay–Kitaev theorem Magic state distillation Gottesman–Kitaev–Preskill code Quantum threshold theorem QIP QMA |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Topological quantum field theory Quantum computing |
| Institutions | California Institute of Technology Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics |
| Thesis | Electronic properties of quasicrystals (Russian: Электронные свойства квазикристаллов) (1989) |
| Doctoral advisor | Valery Pokrovsky |
Alexei Yurievich Kitaev (Russian: Алексей Юрьевич Китаев; born August 26, 1963) is a Russian-American theoretical physicist.
He is currently a professor of theoretical physics and mathematics at the California Institute of Technology.
Kitaev has received multiple awards for his contributions to the field of quantum mechanics, specifically quantum computing.