Alexander Holevo

Alexander Holevo
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Born	(1943-09-02)2 September 1943 Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Russian
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow State University, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Alma mater	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Known for	Holevo's theorem

Alexander Holevo(Russian: Алексáндр Семéнович Хóлево, also spelled as Kholevo and Cholewo) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician, one of the pioneers of quantum information science.

Biography

Alexander Holevo is a member of Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow, since 1969. He graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1966, defended a PhD Thesis in 1969 and a Doctor Science Thesis in 1975. Since 1986 A.S. Holevo is Professor (Moscow State University and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology).

Research

A.S. Holevo made substantial contribution in mathematical foundations of quantum theory, quantum statistics and quantum information theory. In 1973 he obtained an upper bound for amount of classical information which can be extracted from ensemble of quantum states by quantum measurements (this result is known as Holevo's theorem). A.S. Holevo developed the mathematical theory of quantum communication channels, the noncommutative theory of statistical decisions, he proved coding theorems in quantum information theory and revealed the structure of quantum Markov semigroups and measurement processes. A.S. Holevo is the author of about a hundred and seventy published works, including five monographs.

Honours and awards

• Andrey Markov Prize of Russian Academy of Sciences (1997)
• Prizes for the best scientific achievements of Russian Academy of Sciences (1992, 1995, 2008)
• Quantum Communication Award (1996)
• Alexander von Humboldt Research Award (1999).
• Claude E. Shannon Award (2016)

See also

• History of quantum computing