Robert W. Spekkens Junior faculty Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics 31 Caroline St. North, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 2Y5, Canada Publications Research Talks CV Collaborators Contact

News:

• March 26, 2009:
  

  My paper with Gilad Gour entitled "The resource theory of quantum reference frames: manipulations and monotones" has been chosen to be part of the New Journal of Physics Best of 2008 collection.

• Jan. 9, 2009:
  

  My paper with Gilad Gour entitled "Measuring the quality of a quantum reference frame: the relative entropy of frameness" is available as arXiv:0901.0943 (quant-ph).

• Jan. 5, 2009:
  

  My paper with Daniel Buzacott, Tony Keehn, Ben Toner and Geoff Pryde entitled "Preparation contextuality powers parity-oblivious multiplexing" has been published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 010401 (2009).

• Dec. 30, 2008:
  

  My paper with Stephen Bartlett, Terry Rudolph, and Peter Turner entitled "Quantum communication using a bounded-size quantum reference frame" is available as arXiv:0812.5040 (quant-ph)

• Nov. 3, 2008: New job!
  

  I have finished my Royal Society fellowship at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge , and started my new position as junior faculty at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.

• Sept. 25, 2008:
  

  My paper with Dennis Kretschmann and David Kribs entitled "Complementarity of Private and Correctable Subsystems in Quantum Cryptography and Error Correction" has been published in Phys. Rev. A 78, 032330 (2008).

• July 7, 2008:
  

  My paper entitled "Negativity and contextuality are equivalent notions of nonclassicality" has been published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 020401 (2008) and was highlighted as an Editor's suggestion.

• June 27, 2008:
  

  I have been awarded the Birkhoff-von Neumann Prize by the International Quantum Structures Association (IQSA)

• April 1, 2008:
  

  John Sipe arrives in Cambridge and will be visiting until June 15. We are collaborating on a textbook on interpretations of quantum mechanics.

• Feb. 13, 2008:
  

  My paper with Gilad Gour entitled "The resource theory of quantum reference frames: manipulations and monotones" has been published in New J. Phys. 10, 033023 (2008) and has received the distinction of being selected for IOP select