Robert Spekkens | |
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Nationality | Canadian |
Citizenship | Canadian |
Alma mater | McGill University, University of Toronto |
Known for | Spekkens toy model; quantum contextuality |
Awards | Birkhoff-von Neumann Prize of the International Quantum Structures Association (2008); FQXI Essay contest "Questioning the Foundations: Which of Our Assumptions Are Wrong?" (2012) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physicist |
Institutions | Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics University of Cambridge University of Waterloo Griffith University |
Robert W. Spekkens is a Canadian theoretical quantum physicist working in the fields of quantum foundations and quantum information.[1][2][3]
He is known for his work on epistemic view of quantum states (in particular the Spekkens toy model),[4][5][6] quantum contextuality,[7][8][9] quantum resource theories[10][11] and quantum causality.[12][13]
He co-edited the book Quantum Theory: Informational Foundations and Foils.[14]
Spekkens is a faculty member and the leader of the quantum causal inference initiative at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.[15][16] He regularly teaches the course on quantum foundations in the Perimeter Scholars International master's program.[17][18]
He is an adjunct faculty in the Department of Physics of the University of Waterloo[19] and an adjunct research fellow in the Centre for Quantum Dynamics of Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.[15]