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Hans Jürgen Briegel
Born (1962-08-09) 9 August 1962 (age 62)
Ochsenhausen, Germany
NationalityGerman
Alma materLMU München
Known forQuantum computation, Quantum information, Quantum biology
Scientific career
FieldsPhysicist
InstitutionsUniversity of Innsbruck

Hans Jürgen Briegel (born 9 August 1962 in Ochsenhausen)[1] is a German theoretical physicist. He is Full Professor at the University of Innsbruck and conducts research in the field of quantum physics and quantum information.[2]

Biography

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Briegel studied physics and philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich (1983-1990, terms 1986–1987 at the University of Edinburgh).[1] In 1990 he graduated with a diploma, and in 1994 he completed the PhD program (thesis title: The Jaynes-Cummings Model with Dissipation and its Application for the Dynamics of Microscopic Masers and Lasers).[3] He worked as Research Associate at the Texas A&M University and as Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University and the University of Innsbruck.[1] During that time he was also visiting scientist at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. In 1997 he became Research Associate at the University of Munich and after his habilitation in 2002 (Quantum Information and Computer) he became Associate Professor (German: Privatdozent). In 2003 he was offered a Chair in Theoretical Physics at the University of Düsseldorf, which he declined. In the same year he accepted the post as Full Professor at the University of Innsbruck and as a Scientific Director at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.[4] Among other institutions, he has lectured and researched as visiting professor at the University of Bristol, UK, and the Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.[5] Hans Briegel is married and has two children.

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Hans Briegel has developed fundamental concepts in the field of quantum information, quantum computing and quantum communication. In 2001, together with Robert Raussendorf, he introduced the concept of a one-way quantum computer or measurement-based quantum computer model, which presented a new paradigm for building a quantum computer.[6] According to Thomson Reuter's analysis, the publication of this work is the second most-often cited publication in the field of quantum computing research in the first decade of the 21st century.[7] Together with his work in cluster and graph states, it led to a completely new understanding of entanglement as a resource for quantum information processing. The concept of the quantum repeater, presented by Hans Briegel and his colleagues in 1998,[8] plays an important role in quantum communication.

In recent years Hans Briegel has explored topics bordering on other scientific fields: He has investigated whether entanglement states also exist in biological systems, for example in the magnetic compass of migratory birds.[9] Briegel has also published work relating to the topic of agency and free will;[10] he opposes the notion that the laws of nature don't permit free will. He developed a theoretical model that he calls “projective simulation”,[11] which allows for a rudimentary form of creative behavior for artificial agents.

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Biography Hans J. Briegel" (PDF). University of Innsbruck. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  2. ^ "Website Hans J. Briegel". University of Innsbruck. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  3. ^ "Online Katalog der Universitätsbibliothek der LMU". LMU München. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  4. ^ "Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information". IQOQI. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
  5. ^ "Enge Kooperation mit Bristol". IQOQI. 22 March 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  6. ^ Raussendorf, Robert; Briegel, Hans J. (May 2001). "A One-Way Quantum Computer". Physical Review Letters. 86 (22). APS: 5188–5191. Bibcode:2001PhRvL..86.5188R. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.5188. PMID 11384453.
  7. ^ "Hans Briegel on the Advances and Applications of Quantum Computers". Science Watch. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
  8. ^ Briegel, Hans J.; Dür, Wolfgang; Cirac, Ignacio; Zoller, Peter (1998). "Quantum repeaters: The role of imperfect local operations in quantum communication". Physical Review Letters. 81 (26). APS: 5932–5935. Bibcode:1998PhRvL..81.5932B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.5932.
  9. ^ Cai, Jianming; Guerreschi, Gian G.; Briegel, Hans J. (2010). "Quantum control and entanglement in a chemical compass". Physical Review Letters. 104 (22): 220502(4). arXiv:0906.2383. Bibcode:2010PhRvL.104v0502C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.220502. PMID 20867156. S2CID 18572873.
  10. ^ Briegel, Hans J. (2012). "On creative machines and the physical origins of freedom". Scientific Reports. 2. Nature: 522. Bibcode:2012NatSR...2E.522B. doi:10.1038/srep00522. PMC 3400932. PMID 22822427.
  11. ^ Briegel, Hans J.; De Las Cuevas, Gemma (2012). "Projective simulation for artificial intelligence". Scientific Reports. 2: 400. arXiv:1104.3787. Bibcode:2012NatSR...2E.400B. doi:10.1038/srep00400. PMC 3351754. PMID 22590690.
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