IBM Watson
Abstract:
Auxiliary resources such as shared randomness and feedback have no
effect on the capacity of classical channels, but can have a dramatic
effect on both the classical and quantum capacities of quantum
channels. The quantum analog of shared randomness, namely
sender:receiver entanglement, is the most powerful auxiliary resource,
leading to assisted capacities that are both larger, and given by a
simpler mathematical expressions, than other capacities.
Bio:
Charles H. Bennett was born in 1943, the son of music teachers Anne
Wolfe Bennett and Boyd Bennett. He graduated from Croton-Harmon High
School in 1960 and from Brandeis University, majoring in chemistry, in
1964. He received his PhD from Harvard in 1970 for molecular dynamics
studies (computer simulation of molecular motion) under David Turnbull
and Berni Alder. For the next two years he continued this research
under the late Aneesur Rahman at Argonne Laboratory. Since coming to
IBM Reseach in 1972, he has worked on various aspects of the relation
between physics and information. In 1973, building on the work of IBM's
Rolf Landauer, he showed that general-purpose computation can be
performed by a logically and thermodynamically reversible apparatus,
which can operate with arbitrarily little energy dissipation per step
because it avoids throwing away information about past logical states;
and in 1982 he proposed a reinterpretation of Maxwell's demon,
attributing its inability to break the second law to the thermodynamic
cost of destroying, rather than acquiring, information. In
collaboration with Gilles Brassard of the University of Montreal he
developed a practical system of quantum cryptography, allowing secure
communication between parties who share no secret information
initially, based on the uncertainty principle instead of usual
computational assumptions such as the difficulty of factoring, and with
the help of John Smolin built a working demonstration of it in 1989.
Other research interests include algorithmic information theory, in
which the concepts of information and randomness are developed in terms
of the input/output relation of universal computers, and the analogous
use of universal computers to define the intrinsic complexity or
"logical depth" of a physical state as the time required by a universal
computer to simulate the the evolution of the state from a random
initial state. In 1983-5 as visiting professor of computer science at
Boston University, he taught courses on cryptography and the physics of
computation. In 1993 Bennett and Brassard, in collaboration with
Claude Crepeau, Richard Jozsa, Asher Peres, and William Wootters,
discovered "quantum teleportation," an effect in which the complete
information in an unknown quantum state is decomposed into purely
classical information and purely non-classical Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen
(EPR) correlations, sent through two separate channels, and later
reassembled in a new location to produce an exact replica of the
original quantum state that was destroyed in the sending process. In
1995-7, working with Smolin, Wootters, IBM's David DiVincenzo, and
other collaborators, he helped found the quantitative theory of
entanglement and introduced several techniques for faithful
transmission of classical and quantum information through noisy
channels, part of the larger and recently very active field of quantum
information and computation theory. More recently He is an IBM Fellow,
a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and a member of the National
Academy of Sciences. He is married with three grown children. His
wife, Theodora M. Bennett, heads a housing mobility program in
Yonkers. His main hobbies are photography and music.
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