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Raymond Laflamme is a Canadian physicist and the co-founder and current director of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo. He is also a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo and an associate faculty member at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Laflamme is currently a Canada Research Chair in Quantum Information.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/chairholders-titulaires/profile-eng.aspx?profileId=747 )〕 As Stephen Hawking's PhD student, he first became famous for convincing Stephen Hawking that time does not reverse in a contracting universe, along with Don Page. Stephen Hawking told the story of how this happened in his famous book A Brief History of Time in the chapter The Arrow of Time.〔 Later on Laflamme made a name for himself in quantum computing and quantum information theory, which is what he is famous for today. In 2005, Laflamme's research group created the world's largest quantum information processor with 12 qubits.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://uwaterloo.ca/science/research/research-stories/dr-raymond-laflamme )〕 Along with Phillip Kaye and Michele Mosca, he published ''An Introduction to Quantum Computing'' in 2006.〔 〕 Laflamme's research focuses on understanding the impact of manipulating information using the laws of quantum mechanics, the development of methods to protect quantum information against noise through quantum control and quantum error correction for quantum computing and cryptography, the implementation of ideas and concepts of quantum information processing using nuclear magnetic resonance to develop scalable methods of control of quantum systems, and the development of blueprints for quantum information processors such as linear optical quantum computing.〔 ==Biography== Laflamme was born in Quebec City in 1960 to a medical doctor father and a dietician mother. He finished his undergraduate education at the Universite Laval in Canada and went on to doctoral studies at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://services.iqc.uwaterloo.ca/people/profile/laflamme/ )〕 His PhD supervisor was Stephen Hawking. Hawking has mentioned in his book A Brief History of Time that Laflamme and Don Page were responsible for convincing him that time does not reverse in a contracting universe.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=98 )〕 After completing his PhD, Laflamme worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia as well as Cambridge before joining the Los Alamos National Laboratory. His work during this time was ranked amongst the Top Ten Breakthroughs of the Year from the journal Science in 1998. In 2001, he joined the newly founded Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Physics and Astronomy department of the affiliated University of Waterloo, where he and Michele Mosca founded the Institute for Quantum Computing.〔 In 2003, he became director of the Quantum Information program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research; he is also the scientific director of QuantumWorks, Canada's national research consortium on Quantum Information Science, and holds the Canadian Research Chair in Quantum Information.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/News/In_The_Media/Raymond_Laflamme_named_APS_Fellow/ )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Raymond Laflamme」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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