Curriculum Vitae - Quantum Mechanics

Curriculum Vitae
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Oliver Rudolph
Quit - Quantum Information Theory Group
Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (INFM)
Dipartimento di Fisica “A. Volta,” Università di Pavia,
via Bassi 6, I-27100 Pavia, Italy
[email protected]
English (fluent), German (fluent)
Academic record:
10/1987 - 03/1993
04/1993 - 02/1997
04/1997 - 11/1997
12/1997 - 11/1999
10/2001 - present
Studies in physics at the University of Hamburg, Germany.
Topic of diploma thesis: “Thermodynamic and multifractal formalism for the geodesic
flow on Riemann surfaces with constant negative curvature.”
Doctoral studies in mathematical physics at the University of Hamburg, Germany.
Supervisor: Professor F Steiner; Scholarship by the German Research Association (DFG).
Topic of doctoral thesis: “Consistent Histories: Mathematical and Structural Foundations.”
Postdoctoral student at the University of Hamburg, Germany.
Postdoctoral Marie Curie Research Fellow in the Theoretical Physics Group at Imperial
College London, UK; research project on “history quantum theories;”
Supervisor: Professor C J Isham.
Researcher in Quantum Information Theory, Department of Physics “A Volta,” University
of Pavia, Italy.
Employment record:
12/1997 - 11/1999
11/1999 - 07/2001
10/2001 - present
Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK.
Post: Marie Curie Research Fellow (TMR program of the European Commission);
Research Scientist, Starlab nv/sa, Engelandstraat 555, 1180 Brussels, Belgium.
Post: Theoretical research in Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information Processing;
Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (INFM), Dipartimento di Fisica “A. Volta,”
Università di Pavia, via Bassi 6, I-27100 Pavia, Italy.
Post: Researcher in Quantum Information Theory.
Academic degrees:
Dr rer nat
University of Hamburg, February 1997, grade: “very good.”
Diplomphysiker
University of Hamburg, February 1993, grade: “excellent.”
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List of Publications:
Papers in peer-reviewed journals
• Sum-over-histories representation for the causal Green function of free scalar field theory, Physical Review D 51 (1995), 1818-1830.
• Thermodynamic and multifractal formalism and the Bowen-Series map, Fortschritte der Physik 43 (1995),
349-450. Erratum, ibid. 43 (1995), 669.
• Consistent histories and operational quantum physics, International Journal of Theoretical Physics 35
(1996), 1581-1636.
• On the consistent effect histories approach to quantum mechanics, Journal of Mathematical Physics 37
(1996), 5368-5379.
• On tracial operator representations of quantum decoherence functionals, with J D M Wright, Journal of
Mathematical Physics 38 (1997), 5643-5652.
• Symmetries of history quantum theories and decoherence functionals, Journal of Mathematical Physics
39 (1998), 5850-5855.
• The multi-form generalized Gleason theorem, with J D M Wright, Communications in Mathematical
Physics 198 (1998), 705-709.
• Temporal quantum theory, Physical Review A 59 (1999), 1045-1055.
• Consistent histories and POV measures, Helvetica Physica Acta 72 (1999), 33-70.
• Homogeneous decoherence functionals in standard and history quantum mechanics, with J D M Wright,
Communications in Mathematical Physics 204 (1999), 249-267.
• The representation theory of decoherence functionals in history quantum theories, International Journal
of Theoretical Physics 39 (2000), 871-884.
• A separability criterion for density operators, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 33 (2000),
3951-3955.
• Super Hilbert Spaces, Communications in Mathematical Physics 214 (2000), 449-467.
• On unentangled Gleason theorems for quantum information theory, with J D M Wright, Letters in Mathematical Physics 52 (2000), 239-245.
• A uniqueness theorem for entanglement measures, Journal of Mathematical Physics 42 (2001), 25072512.
• A new class of entanglement measures, Journal of Mathematical Physics 42 (2001), 5306 - 5314.
• The uniqueness theorem for entanglement measures, with M J Donald and M Horodecki, Journal of
Mathematical Physics 43 (2002), 4252-4272.
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• Further results on the cross norm criterion for separability, e-print quant-ph/0202121.
• Some Properties of the Computable Cross Norm Criterion for Separability, Physical Review A 67,
032312 (2003).
Other papers
• On the Classification of Decoherence Functionals, DESY-Report 96-176.
• A note on ”A Matrix Realignment Method for Recognizing Entanglement” quant-ph/0205017 v1, e-print
quant-ph/0205054.
• On the cross norm criterion for separability, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 36 (2003),
5825.
Abstracts and short papers
• Since April 1996: regular reviewer/author for Mathematical Reviews, including two book reviews.
• Since October 1997: regular reviewer/author for Zentralblatt für Mathematik, including one book review.
• Invited contribution to the Concise Encyclopedia of Supersymmetry edited by J Bagger, S A Duplij and
W Siegel; Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, 2003.
Recent seminars and presentations
• On History Quantum Theories, invited talk, ‘Quantumclub,’ University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 4 October 2001.
• On Entanglement and Entanglement Measures in Quantum Theory, invited colloquium, Institute for
History and Foundations of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The
Netherlands, 5 October 2001.
• On the Theory of Entanglement Measures, Quantum Optics Seminar, Dipartimento di Fisica “A. Volta,”
Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy, 15 November 2001.
• On the Mathematical Characterization of Entanglement and Separability, invited seminar, Dipartimento
di Fisica - Sezione Teorica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy, 22 May 2002.
• The Theory of Quantum Entanglement, School of Engineering and Science, International University
Bremen, Bremen, Germany, 28 May 2002.
• The Theory of Quantum Entanglement, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham,
Nottingham, United Kingdom, 15 January 2003.
• Computable Separability Criteria, invited lecture, Quantum Optics and Laser Science Group, Imperial
College London, London, United Kingdom, 16 January 2003.
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• Distinguishing Separable and Entangled States, contributed conference talk, presented at Annual Spring
Conference of the German Physical Society (DPG), Hannover, 25 March 2003.
• Distinguishing Separable and Entangled States, invited conference talk presented at 12th UK Conference
on the Foundations of Physics, Leeds, 4 September 2003.
• Distinguishing Separable and Entangled States, invited seminar talk presented at the Center for Nonlinear
Phenomena and Complex Systems, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, 8 September 2003.
• Characterizing separable and entangled states, invited seminar, Department of Physics, Theoretical
Physics Section, University of Ulm, 20 November 2003.
References are available upon request.
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