Matthew Hastings is an American physicist, currently a Principal Researcher at

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. Previously, he was a professor at

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and a research scientist at the Center for Nonlinear Studies and Theoretical Division,

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. He received his PhD in physics at

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, in 1997, under Leonid Levitov. While Hastings primarily works in

quantum information science 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 ...

, he has made contributions to a range of topics in physics and related fields. He proved an extension of the Lieb-Schultz-Mattis theorem (see Lieb-Robinson bounds) to dimensions greater than one, providing foundational mathematical insights into

topological quantum computing A topological quantum computer is a type of quantum computer. It utilizes anyons, a type of quasiparticle that occurs in two-dimensional systems. The anyons' world lines intertwine to form braids in a three-dimensional spacetime (one temporal and ...

. He disproved the additivity conjecture for the classical capacity of quantum channels, a long standing open problem in quantum Shannon theory. He and

Michael Freedman Michael Hartley Freedman (born April 21, 1951) is an American mathematician at Microsoft Station Q, a research group at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1986, he was awarded a Fields Medal for his work on the 4-dimensional gen ...

formulated the NLTS conjecture, a precursor to a quantum PCP theorem (qPCP).

Awards and honours

He is invited to speak at the 2022

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in the mathematical physics section.

Publications

List of publications
on

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List of Publications at Microsoft

References

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