Samuel Leon Braunstein (born 1961) is a professor at the

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, England. He is a member of a research group in non-standard computation and has a particular interest in

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, and

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. Braunstein has written or edited three books and has published more than 140 papers, which have been cited over 36,000 times. His most important work is on

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, and published in a paper titled ''Unconditional Quantum Teleportation''. The paper has been cited more than 3,000 times and received significant coverage in both the scientific and mainstream press. In February 2006, Braunstein made the news due to his involvement in the first successful demonstration of quantum telecloning. From 2009, he began to research

, contributing to the

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and the

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paradox. Braunstein co-authored papers with

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and Simone Severini, with whom he introduced the Braunstein-Ghosh-Severini Entropy of a graph.

Education

Braunstein completed his PhD in 1988 at

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, under

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. His dissertation was titled ''Novel Quantum States and Measurements.''

Academic career

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- BSc and MSc in Physics *

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- PhD in Physics, awarded in 1988 *

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, USA - Research Associate (1988 - 1991) * Technion, Israel -

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(1991 - 1993) *

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, Israel - Feinberg Fellow (1993 - 1995) *

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, Germany - Humboldt Fellow (1995 - 1996) * School of Informatics,

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, Wales - Lecturer through Professor (1996 - 2003) * Department of Computer Science,

, England - Professor (2003-)

Awards and honors

*2001 — Fellow of the

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*2003 —

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*2008 — Fellow of

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*2011 — Fellow of the

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Books

* Samuel L. Braunstein: ''Quantum Computing: Where Do We Want To Go Tomorrow?'', Wiley-VCH, * Samuel L. Braunstein and Hoi-Kwong Lo: ''Scalable Quantum Computers: Paving the Way to Realization'', Wiley-VCH, * Samuel L. Braunstein and Arun K. Pati (Eds.): ''Quantum Information with Continuous Variables'', Springer,

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