Patrick Hayden is a physicist and computer scientist active in the fields of quantum information theory and quantum computing. He is currently a professor in the Stanford University physics department and a distinguished research chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Prior to that he held a Canada Research Chair in the physics of information at McGill University. He received a B.Sc. (1998) from McGill University and won a Rhodes Scholarship to study for a D.Phil. (2001) at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Artur Ekert. In 2007 he was awarded the Sloan Research Fellowship in Computer Science. He was a Canadian Mathematical Society Public Lecturer in 2008 and received a Simons Investigator Award in 2014.[1]

Hayden has contributed substantially to quantum information theory. His contributions range from quantum information approaches to the theory of black holes[2][3] to the study of quantum entanglement.[4] Hayden and John Preskill considered information retrieval from evaporating black holes. Their study of a black hole's retention time for quantum information before it is revealed in the Hawking radiation; called the Hayden-Preskill thought experiment, turned out to be compatible with the black hole complementarity hypothesis.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Simons Foundation
  2. 1 2 Hayden, Patrick; Preskill, John (2007). "Black holes as mirrors: Quantum information in random subsystems". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2007 (9): 120. arXiv:0708.4025. Bibcode:2007JHEP...09..120H. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2007/09/120. S2CID 15261400.
  3. ↑ Amanda Gefter, Theoretical physics: Complexity on the horizon, Nature 509, 552–553 (29 May 2014).
  4. ↑ Hayden, Patrick; Leung, Debbie W.; Winter, Andreas (2006). "Aspects of Generic Entanglement". Communications in Mathematical Physics. 265 (1): 95–117. arXiv:quant-ph/0407049. Bibcode:2006CMaPh.265...95H. doi:10.1007/s00220-006-1535-6. S2CID 349565.


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