Raymond Laflamme
Appointment
Advisory Committee Chair
Quantum Information Science
About
Physicist Raymond Laflamme is interested in theoretical methods for error control in quantum devices, the use of quantum computers to simulate quantum systems, and the experimental implementation of small quantum information processing devices using spins (nuclear or electronic) and photons.
Laflamme, together with Don Page, was responsible for changing Stephen Hawking’s mind on the reversal of the direction of time in a contracting universe (see Hawking’s book A Brief History of Time).
Awards
- Officer of the Order of Canada, 2017
- Canadian Association of Physicists, CAP-CRM award, 2017
- Honorary Degree, Université de Sherbrooke, 2012
- Canada Research Chair, 2002 to present
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2011
- Premier's Discovery Award, Government of Ontario, 2008
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 2008
- Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2008
Relevant Publications
Rodriguez-Briones, N.A., and Raymond Laflamme. “Achievable polarization for heat-bath algorithmic cooling.” Physical Review Letters 116, no. 17 (2016): 170501.
Jochym-O’Connor, T., and R. Laflamme. “Using Concatenated Quantum Codes for Universal Fault-Tolerant Quantum Gates.” Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, no. 1 (2014): 010505.
Ladd, T.D. et al. “Quantum computers.” Nature 464 (2010): 43–53.
Kaye, P. et al. An Introduction to Quantum Computing. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
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