Pieter Kok, Ph.D.

Doctor of Philosophy

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 (born June 17, 1972) is one of the co-developers of quantum interferometric

Interferometry

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 optical lithography

Lithography

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.
He is a co-author of a measurement-based entanglement protocol
and also the book Introduction to Optical Quantum Information Processing with Brendon Lovett.

Dr. Kok was born in Friesland

Friesland

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 in the Netherlands

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. In 1997 he graduated from the University of Utrecht with a degree in Foundations of Quantum Theory. In 2001, he received his PhD in physics from the University of Wales, Bangor. His research specializations include linear optical implementations of quantum communication and computation

Quantum computer

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 protocols, quantum teleportation

Quantum teleportation

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 and the interpretation of quantum theory

Quantum optics

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. Dr. Kok has worked in the Quantum Computing Technologies Group at the NASA

NASA

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/Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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, in Pasadena

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, California

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, Hewlett-Packard

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 Laboratories in Bristol

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, England

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 and at the Department of Materials http://www.materials.ox.ac.uk in Oxford University. He is currently teaching and researching at the University of Sheffield.

He and his wife, Rose Roberto, live in northern England with their son.

External links

• http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7115/full/444049a.html;jsessionid=683D345C02704C3BA168E32EC077DA3E
• http://www.iqc.ca/~kresch/Media_files/NewScientist_Danube.pdf
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/thematerialworld_20060406.shtml (bottom of page under Quantum Computing section)
• http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v85/p2733
• http://link.aps.org/abstract/RMP/v79/p135
• http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1367-2630/9/6/196/
• http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/-search=38249546.1/1367-2630/9/6/196
• http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/-search=38249546.2/1464-4266/7/7/006
• http://ldsd.group.shef.ac.uk/members/?name=Kok