Patrick Hayden (scientist) explained

Patrick Hayden is a physicist and computer scientist active in the fields of quantum information theory and quantum computing. He is currently a professor in the Stanford University physics department and a distinguished research chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Prior to that he held a Canada Research Chair in the physics of information at McGill University. He received a B.Sc. (1998) from McGill University and won a Rhodes Scholarship to study for a D.Phil. (2001) at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Artur Ekert. In 2007 he was awarded the Sloan Research Fellowship in Computer Science. He was a Canadian Mathematical Society Public Lecturer in 2008 and received a Simons Investigator Award in 2014.[1]

Hayden has contributed substantially to quantum information theory. His contributions range from quantum information approaches to the theory of black holes[2] [3] to the study of quantum entanglement.[4] Hayden and John Preskill considered information retrieval from evaporating black holes. Their study of a black hole's retention time for quantum information before it is revealed in the Hawking radiation; called the Hayden-Preskill thought experiment, turned out to be compatible with the black hole complementarity hypothesis.[2]

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  1. [Simons Foundation]
  2. 0708.4025 . 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/09/120 . Black holes as mirrors: Quantum information in random subsystems . 2007 . Hayden . Patrick . Preskill . John . 15261400 . Journal of High Energy Physics . 2007 . 9 . 120 . 2007JHEP...09..120H .
  3. Amanda Gefter, Theoretical physics: Complexity on the horizon, Nature 509, 552–553 (29 May 2014).
  4. quant-ph/0407049 . 10.1007/s00220-006-1535-6 . Aspects of Generic Entanglement . 2006 . Hayden . Patrick . Leung . Debbie W. . Winter . Andreas . 349565 . Communications in Mathematical Physics . 265 . 1 . 95–117 . 2006CMaPh.265...95H .