Göran Lindblad (physicist)
Göran Lindblad | |
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| Born | 9 July 1940 |
| Died | 30 November 2022 (aged 82) |
| Known for | Lindblad equation data-processing inequality for quantum relative entropy |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Institutions | KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | The concepts of information and entropy applied to the measurement process in quantum theory and statistical mechanics (1974) |
| Doctoral advisor | Bengt Nagel |
Göran Lindblad (9 July 1940 – 30 November 2022) was a Swedish theoretical physicist and a professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He made major foundational contributions in mathematical physics and quantum information theory, having to do with open quantum systems, entropy inequalities, and quantum measurements.