David DiVincenzo
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David P. DiVincenzo (born 1959) is an American theoretical physicist. He is the director of the Institute of Theoretical Nanoelectronics at the Peter Grünberg Institute at the Forschungszentrum Jülich and professor at the Institute for Quantum Information at RWTH Aachen University. With Daniel Loss (at the University of Basel), he proposed the Loss–DiVincenzo quantum computer in 1997,[2] which would use electron spins in quantum dots as qubits.[3]
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Born | 1959 (age 64–65) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Nationality | USA American |
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Spouse | Barbara Terhal[citation needed] |
Awards | Alexander von Humboldt Professorship (2011)[1] |
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Fields | Physics (theoretical) |
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Doctoral advisor | Eugene J. Mele |
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