Benjamin Schumacher

Benjamin Schumacher
Other names Ben
Occupation Theoretical physicist
Employer Kenyon College
Known for Schumacher compression
Spouse(s) Carol Schumacher[1]
Children 2 daughters[2]
Awards 2002 Quantum Communication Award, International Organization for Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing[3]
Rosenbaum Fellowship, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (1999).
Robert M. Tomsich Science Award, Kenyon College (1996).
University Fellowship, the University of Texas at Austin (1982-1984 and 1985-1986).
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (1982-1985).
President's Medal for the outstanding graduating senior, Hendrix College (1982).[4]
Website http://physics.kenyon.edu/people/schumacher/schumacher.htm

Benjamin "Ben" Schumacher is an American theoretical physicist, working mostly in the field of quantum information theory.[2]

He discovered a way of interpreting quantum states as information. He came up with a way of compressing the information in a state, and storing the information in a smaller number of states. This is now known as Schumacher compression. This was the quantum analog of Shannon's noiseless coding theorem, and it helped to start the field known as quantum information theory.

Schumacher is also credited with inventing the term qubit along with William Wootters of Williams College, which is to quantum computation as a bit is to traditional computation.

He is the author of Physics in Spacetime,[1] a textbook on Special Relativity, and is also a professor at Kenyon College, a small liberal arts college in rural Ohio. Also he holds the lecture on Quantum Mechanics: The Physics of the Microscopic World in The Teaching Company program.[5]

Schumacher earned his bachelor's degree at Hendrix College and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.

Influential research papers

References

  1. 1 2 When you're #253,287 you try harder, April 27, 2005, Zeroth Order Approximation
  2. 1 2 What I'm up to, Tuesday, December 21, 2004, Zeroth Order Approximation
  3. ↑ Ben's Bio, Lecture Series on Science of Information, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University:
  4. ↑ Benjamin Schumacher - CV
  5. ↑ Quantum Mechanics: The Physics of the Microscopic World

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