Pieter Kok

Pieter Kok
Born	June 1972 (age 53) Friesland, Netherlands
Alma mater	University of Utrecht University of Wales, Bangor
Scientific career
Fields	Quantum information theory
Thesis	State Preparation in Quantum Optics  (2001)
Doctoral advisor	Samuel L. Braunstein

Pieter Kok is a Dutch physicist and one of the co-developers of quantum interferometric optical lithography. His research specializations include linear optical implementations of quantum communication and computation protocols, quantum teleportation and the interpretation of quantum theory. ^[1] He is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Sheffield. ^[2]

Professor Kok was born in Friesland, Netherlands, graduated from the University of Utrecht with a masters in degree in Foundations of Quantum Theory, and later completing a PhD in physics from the University of Wales, Bangor in 2001. He has previously worked in the Quantum Computing Technologies Group at the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Bristol, England and at the Department of Materials, University of Oxford.

References

1. "Quantum Computing" in "The Material World". BBC Radio 4. 6 April 2006.
2. Youtube video: The physics of time travel by the University of Sheffield.

Selected publications

• Kok, Pieter; Lovett, Brendon W. (2010). Introduction to Optical Quantum Information Processing. ISBN   978-1-139-19365-8.
• Kok, Pieter (2023). A First Introduction to Quantum Physics. Springer. ISBN   978-3-031-16164-3.

• Barrett, Sean D.; Kok, Pieter (24 June 2005). "Efficient high-fidelity quantum computation using matter qubits and linear optics". Physical Review A. 71 (6): 060310. arXiv: quant-ph/0408040 . Bibcode:2005PhRvA..71f0310B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.71.060310. S2CID   119407129.

• Boto, Agedi N.; Kok, Pieter; Abrams, Daniel S.; Braunstein, Samuel L.; Williams, Colin P.; Dowling, Jonathan P. (25 September 2000). "Quantum Interferometric Optical Lithography: Exploiting Entanglement to Beat the Diffraction Limit". Physical Review Letters. 85 (13): 2733–2736. arXiv: quant-ph/9912052 . Bibcode:2000PhRvL..85.2733B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.2733. PMID   10991220. S2CID   7373285.

• Campbell, Earl T; Fitzsimons, Joseph; Benjamin, Simon C; Kok, Pieter (29 June 2007). "Efficient growth of complex graph states via imperfect path erasure". New Journal of Physics. 9 (6): 196. arXiv: quant-ph/0702209 . Bibcode:2007NJPh....9..196C. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/9/6/196. S2CID   59127514.

• Kok, Pieter; Barrett, Sean D; Spiller, Timothy P (1 July 2005). "Preparing multi-partite entanglement of photons and matter qubits". Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics. 7 (7): S166 –S170. arXiv: quant-ph/0506164 . Bibcode:2005JOptB...7S.166K. doi:10.1088/1464-4266/7/7/006. S2CID   119546665.

• Kok, Pieter; Lovett, Brendon W. (November 2006). "Qubits in the pink". Nature. 444 (7115): 49. doi: 10.1038/444049a . PMID   17080080.

• Kok, Pieter; Munro, W. J.; Nemoto, Kae; Ralph, T. C.; Dowling, Jonathan P.; Milburn, G. J. (24 January 2007). "Linear optical quantum computing with photonic qubits". Reviews of Modern Physics. 79 (1): 135–174. arXiv: quant-ph/0512071 . Bibcode:2007RvMP...79..135K. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.79.135. S2CID   119335959.

External links

• A First Course in Quantum Mechanics ebook
• New Scientist
• University of Sheffield Staff Profile
• Pieter Kok's Home Page