Andrew Martin Steane is Professor of
physics
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at the
University of Oxford
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. He is also a fellow of
Exeter College, Oxford
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The college was founde ...
.
He was a student at
St Edmund Hall, Oxford
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where he obtained his MA and DPhil.
His major works to date are on error correction in
quantum information processing
Quantum information science is a field that combines the principles of quantum mechanics with information theory to study the processing, analysis, and transmission of information. It covers both theoretical and experimental aspects of quantum phys ...
, including
Steane code
The Steane code is a tool in quantum error correction introduced by Andrew Steane in 1996. It is a CSS code (Calderbank-Shor-Steane), using the classical binary ,4,3Hamming code to correct for both qubit flip errors (X errors) and phase flip er ...
s. He was awarded the
Maxwell Medal and Prize
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Bilateral awards
* Th ...
of the
Institute of Physics
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It was founded in 1874 and has a worldwide ...
in 2000.
Papers
* "Quantum Computing" Reports on Progress in Physics 61: 117–173. Steane, A.M. (1998)
* "A Quantum Computer Needs Only One Universe" Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 34B: 469–478, Steane, A.M. (2003)
Books
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'Relativity Made Relatively Easy' is a text that follows closely to the 'Symmetry and Relativity' course that he teaches to third-year undergraduates at the University of Oxford. Except for Spinors, which is intended to be included in his next publication.
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*''Thermodynamics'' by Andrew Steane
References
External links
Homepage
Living people
British physicists
Fellows of Exeter College, Oxford
Alumni of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Quantum information scientists
1965 births
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