Aram Harrow Explained

Aram W. Harrow
Alma Mater:	MIT
Doctoral Advisor:	Isaac Chuang
Known For:	Quantum algorithm for linear systems of equations

Aram Wettroth Harrow (born 1980) is a professor of physics in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Theoretical Physics.^[1]

Harrow works in quantum information science and quantum computing.^[2] Together with Avinatan Hassidim and Seth Lloyd, he designed a quantum algorithm for linear systems of equations, which in some cases exhibits an exponential advantage over the best classical algorithms.^[3] The algorithm has wide application in quantum machine learning.

He is a steering committee member of Quantum Information Processing (QIP),^[4] the largest annual conference in the field of quantum computing. Harrow is a co-administrator of SciRate,^[5] a free and open access scientific collaboration network. He also co-runs a blog, The Quantum Pontiff. His collaborators include Peter Shor and Charles H. Bennett.

Selected publications

• Bremner. Michael J.. Dawson. Christopher M.. Dodd. Jennifer L.. Gilchrist. Alexei. Harrow. Aram W.. Mortimer. Duncan. Nielsen. Michael A.. Osborne. Tobias J.. Michael Nielsen. 2002-11-25. Practical Scheme for Quantum Computation with Any Two-Qubit Entangling Gate. Physical Review Letters. 89. 24. 247902. quant-ph/0207072. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.247902. 12484981. 2002PhRvL..89x7902B. 41875260 .
• Devetak. I.. Harrow. A. W.. Winter. A. J.. October 2008. A Resource Framework for Quantum Shannon Theory. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 54. 10. 4587–4618. quant-ph/0512015. 10.1109/tit.2008.928980. 17767728 . 0018-9448.
• Book: Barak. Boaz. Brandao. Fernando G. S. L.. Harrow. Aram W.. Kelner. Jonathan. Steurer. David. Zhou. Yuan. Proceedings of the forty-fourth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing . Hypercontractivity, sum-of-squares proofs, and their applications . 2012-05-19. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2213977.2214006. ACM. 307–326. 10.1145/2213977.2214006. 9781450312455. 1205.4484. 2012arXiv1205.4484B. 937370 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Aram Harrow. www.mit.edu. 2018-02-21.
2. Web site: Aram Harrow. Google Scholar. 2018-02-21.
3. Harrow. Aram W.. Hassidim. Avinatan. Lloyd. Seth. Seth Lloyd. 2009-10-07. Quantum Algorithm for Linear Systems of Equations. Physical Review Letters. 103. 15. 150502. 0811.3171. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.150502. 19905613. 2009PhRvL.103o0502H. 5187993 .
4. Web site: Home. qipconference.org. en-gb. 2018-02-21.
5. Web site: Top arXiv papers. SciRate. en-US. 2018-02-21.