Daniel Loss

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Daniel Loss
Residence Basel, Switzerland
Nationality Swiss
Fields Physicist
Institutions University of Basel
Alma mater University of Zurich
Doctoral advisor A. Thellung
Known for Proposing, with David P. DiVincenzo, the Loss-DiVincenzo quantum computer
Notable awards The Humboldt Prize (2005)

Daniel Loss is a professor of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Basel. With David P. DiVincenzo (at IBM Research), he proposed the Loss-DiVincenzo quantum computer in 1997[1], which would use electron spins in quantum dots as qubits.

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  1. ^ D. Loss and D. P. DiVincenzo, "Quantum computation with quantum dots", Phys. Rev. A 57, p120 (1998); on arXiv.org in Jan. 1997

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