Ivette Fuentes

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Ivette Fuentes Guridi (other names: Ivette Fuentes, Ivette Fuentes-Schuller)
Alma mater Imperial College London
Scientific career
Institutions University of Southampton
University of Nottingham
Perimeter Institute
University of Oxford
National Autonomous University of Mexico
University of Waterloo
University of Vienna
Thesis Entanglement and geometric phases in light-matter interactions  (2003)

Ivette Fuentes (born 7 October 1972) is a Professor of Quantum Physics at the University of Southampton [1] and Emmy Fellow (Fellow by Special Election) at Keble College, University of Oxford. Her work considers fundamental quantum mechanics, quantum optics and their interplay with general relativity. She is interested in how quantum information theory can make use of relativistic effects.

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Early life and education

Fuentes grew up in Mexico. Whilst she was at high school she was interested in dance and considered becoming a professional ballet dancer. [2] Fuentes studied physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and graduated in 1997. [3] She worked with Deborah Dultzin on Seyfert galaxies. Whilst at UNAM Fuentes won a competition to spend a summer at Fermilab and she decided that she wanted to continue working in physics. Fuentes earned her doctoral degree at Imperial College London in 2003 under the supervision of Peter Knight and Vlatko Vedral. [4] She moved to the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics as a postdoctoral fellow, where she worked until 2006. In 2004 she was selected as a University of Oxford Junior Research Fellow and joined Mansfield College, Oxford. [5] [6] She was appointed an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship to join Technische Universität Berlin. [7]

Research and career

Fuentes is working on new ways to store and use information using quantum systems. She looks to use relativistic quantum mechanics to improve information tasks such as quantum cryptography and quantum teleportation. She demonstrated a quantum thermometer that could measure the temperature of Bose–Einstein condensates. [8] Fuentes was awarded an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Career Acceleration Fellowship and joined the University of Nottingham. [9]

In 2015 Fuentes joined the University of Vienna where she is a member of the theoretical quantum optics group. [5] [10] [11] She was awarded funding from the Foundational Questions Institute to study quantum theory. [12] In 2017 Fuentes co-founded the Penrose Institute, an organisation that looks to test the scientific ideas of Roger Penrose. [13] [14] Unlike many other prominent physicists, Fuentes rejected financial support from Jeffrey Epstein, citing ethical reasons. [15]

Fuentes has spoken at New Scientist Live, where she discussed building equipment for quantum teleportation. [16] She has worked with the expressionist artist Benjamin Arizmendi on an art - science project entitled "The Aesthetics of Entanglement". [17]

Selected publications

Her publications include;

Fuentes-Schuller, Ivette (2005-09-14). "Alice falls into a black hole: entanglement in noninertial frames". Physical Review Letters. 95 (12): 120404. arXiv: quant-ph/0410172 . Bibcode:2005PhRvL..95l0404F. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.120404. PMID   16197056. S2CID   6916397.

Fuentes-Schuller, Ivette (2006-09-20). "Entanglement of Dirac fields in noninertial frames". Physical Review A. 74 (3): 032326. arXiv: quant-ph/0603269 . Bibcode:2006PhRvA..74c2326A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.74.032326. S2CID   32704515.

Fuentes-Schuller, Ivette (2003-04-23). "Geometric phase in open systems". Physical Review Letters. 90 (16): 160402. arXiv: quant-ph/0301037 . Bibcode:2003PhRvL..90p0402C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.160402. PMID   12731961. S2CID   17339486.

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References

  1. ↑ "Professor Ivette Fuentes Guridi | Physics and Astronomy | University of Southampton". www.phys.soton.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-01-20.
  2. ↑ Alper, Jerry (2018-02-21). "A Conversation with Quantum Physicist Ivette Fuentes". Medium. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  3. ↑ "Ivette Fuentes | Perimeter Institute". www.perimeterinstitute.ca. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  4. ↑ "Ivette Fuentes - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  5. 1 2 "Univ.-Prof. Ivette Fuentes Guridi, PhD". medienportal.univie.ac.at (in German). Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  6. ↑ Cho, Adrian (2005-09-13). "Outracing Quantum Weirdness". Science | AAAS. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  7. ↑ "Lifeboat Foundation Bios: Dr. Ivette Fuentes". lifeboat.com. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  8. ↑ Aron, Jacob. "Quantum thermometer could measure coldest thing ever". www.newscientist.com. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  9. ↑ "Quantum Optics Group at the University of Potsdam". www.quantum.physik.uni-potsdam.de. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  10. ↑ "University Vienna - Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information". Quantum Technology. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  11. ↑ Aron, Jacob. "Quantum thermometer could measure coldest thing ever". www.newscientist.com. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  12. ↑ "FQXi - Foundational Questions Institute". fqxi.org. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  13. ↑ "Ivette Fuentes". The Penrose Institute. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  14. ↑ "Roger Penrose Institute to Form in San Diego". www.newswise.com. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  15. ↑ "What kind of researcher did sex offender Jeffrey Epstein like to fund? He told Science before he died". Science | AAAS. 2019-09-19. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  16. ↑ Ivette Fuentes , retrieved 2019-11-21
  17. ↑ "Art and quantum". Ivette Fuentes. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
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