Professor Jonathan Barrett
Professor of Quantum Information Science, Department of Computer Science
About
Professor Jonathan Barrett is a member of the Quantum Group at the Department of Computer Science in Oxford, and a Visiting Fellow at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada.
His research is interdisciplinary, spanning computer science, physics and the philosophy of physics. His main interests are in quantum information science and the foundations of quantum theory. His work focuses on developing new ways in which quantum systems can be used for tasks such as computation and cryptography, and on the use of tools from information science to address the conceptual problems of quantum theory.
Expertise
- Quantum computing
- Quantum cryptography
- Quantum foundations
Selected publications
- Causal and compositional structure of unitary transformations (2021)
- Certified Quantum Random Numbers from Untrusted Light (2020)
- Quantum Common Causes and Quantum Causal Models (2017)
- Memory Attacks on Device−Independent Quantum Cryptography (2013)
- No psi−epistemic model can fully explain the indistinguishability of quantum states (2013)
- Unconditionally secure device−independent quantum key distribution with only two devices (2012)
- On the reality of the quantum state (2012)
Languages
English