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藝難難鎖華Position and Organization:
IBM Fellow and Rcscarch Staff Membcr
IBⅣ I Thomas J.Watson Rcscarch Center

In collaboration with Gilles Brassard of tllc University ofMontreal hc dcveloped a practical systcnl of quantum
cryptography(BB84),and w袖 the help of thei studcnts built

lntemational Busincss Machines Corporationa workillg dcmonstration ofit in 1989.

Doctorate:Ph.D.(HarVard univ.,1971)

In 1993 Bennett and Brassard, in collaboration with Claude
Crepeau,Richard Jozsa,Asher Peres, and Willianl Woottcrs,

Date of Birth:Apn1 7,1943

discovered l'quantunl tclcportation,H an effect in which thc

Brief Biography:

complctc information in an unknown quantum state is

1964 BA,Brandcis Univ.

decomposed into purely classical inforlllation and purely

1971 Pll.D.,Harvard U」 v.

quantunl correlations (cntanglcment), Sent through two

1970 Argomc National Laboratory

separatc channels,and latcr rcasscmblcd in a new location to1972 1BM Rcscarch
1995

produce an cxact replica of the original quantunl state that was

1BM Fellow

destroyed in thc scnding proccss. In 1995‑7, working withMain Awards and Honors:

Smolin, Wootters, IBMIs David DiVinccnzo, and othcr

Fellow ofthe Amc五 can Physical Socicty
1997 Membcr ofthc National Academy of Scicnccs
2006 Rank]h己 zc
2008 Harvey Prizc

transmission of classical and quantum illforlnation tllroughnoisy channels. Thesc tcchniqucs, together with quantum
teleportation, became thc basic building blocks for quantum
infomadon proccssing,and especially fault tolcrant quantum
computation.

Main Achievements:
Dr.Charles H.Bcnnctt has concentatd on a rc―

collaborators, he hclpcd found the quantitativc thcory ofcntanglement and introduced several techniqucs for faithfulcxarninationof the physical basis of infomation, applying quantum

With IBM colleagucs E)iVincenzo, Linskcr, Smolin, andphysics to the problems surrounding infomatlon exchangc.

Donkor hc dcviscd practical mcthodS using physicalHe has playcd a maiOr Юle in elucidating the intercomections

interactions to protcct audio/visual and otllcr rccordings of

between physics and information,partlcularly in tllc rcalm ofrcal― tiinc processes from falsiication,pre―quantum computation, but also in cellular automata andreversiblc computing.With Cillcs Brassard,he developed amethod for scnding messages with secrecy guaranteed byBemettis an IBM Fcllow,a Fellow of tllc Anlcrican Physical,or post― dating.

Society, and a mcmber of the US National Acadcmy ofquantum physics.Bennett is onc of the founders of quantum

Sciences. Hc is a recipient of thc Rank Prize, the Harvey

cryptography and quantum inforlnation theory,colltribudng

P五 ze,and hold honorary doctoratcs from Masaryk Univcrsity,

many core ldeas.

Univcrsity of Gdallsk,Univcrsity of Bristol,and ETH―

He was born in 1943,the son of music teachers,and attcndcd

For piOnccring work On quantunl cryptography, andCroton― Harmon High Scho01,Brandeis University(BA,outstanding contributions to thc advancement of modem

1964),and rCCeived his Ph.D.from Harvard in 1971 forquantum inforlllation thcory as one of the founders, Dr.

molecular dynamics studics(COmputer simulation ofCharlcs H.Bennettis hcrcby awarded the Okawa Prizc.

molecular motion)under tlle latc David Tumbull,continuing
this rcscarch as a postdoctoral researchcr undcr the lateAneesur Rahman tt Argonnc National Laboratory.

Hc is married witll three grown childrcn and six grandchildren.

Zurich.

His wife is retired from having directed a housing mobility

program in Yonkers, Ncw York. His main hobbics arc
Since coming to IBM Research in 1972,he has worked on

photography and music.

various aspccts of the relation between physics andinfonnttion.h1973,building on thc work ofIBⅣ rs latc Rolf
Landauer,hc showed that computa■ ons can be perforlllcd bya logically and thcrlnodynanlically rcvcrsible apparatus,andin p五 nciple can bc pcrfomed with arbita● ly little energy

dissipation per step. In 1982 he proposcd the currently

accepted rcsolution of thc Maxwell's dcmon paradox,
attributing the demonls inability to violat thc Sccond Law to

the thermodynalnic cost of dcstroying,rathcr than acquinng,
lnforlnatlon.

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