Ｆ︲THE OKAWA FOUNDATION
for lnformation and Telecommunications

pti9,/qtantum information processing,。

Positions and Organizations:long distallccs Using semiconductor lascrs as light sourccs,this method

Profcssor,Stanford Univcrsity

scnds and receivcs mullplc carrlcr waves at once using light of slightlyydifferent frequencics.Thc lascr light noise was an undcslred prope■

Professor,National lnstitutc of lnforlllttics

bccause i causes frequency instabiliりDoctorate:Ph.D.(UniV.Of Tokyo,1978)

HoW釘 ∝,l rescmblcs thc quantum

luctuation"tllat alows the electron spin to tJに the ground statc and theflrst cxcitation state at the samc timc. By tJ(ing advalltagc of thisDate of Birth:Novembcr 21,1950

quantulll fluctualon" alld actually controlling thc fluctuatlon, high―Brief Biography:
1973 B.E.,Tokyo lnstitutc of Technology
1975 M.E.,Univcrsity of Tokyo

speed computatio■

can bc madc posslble. In his ploncc五 ng quantum

computcr rcscarch,Dr.Yalnamoto thcrcforc worked on such tcchniclucs
as using a lascr bealn to change the o五 cntalon and phase of electron sph

1978 Pll.D.,Un市 crsity of Tokyo

as a way ofpcrfoHmg gtte op∝1978 Scientist,NTT Basic Resettch Laborato五 cs

恥hen Dr.Yalnalnoto was glven the appointlncllt at Stanford Univcrslり1992 Profcssor of Applied Physics alld Elccdcal
Engincc五 ng,Stanford Univcrsity

1999 NTT R&D Fellow,

hc was thc top choice among 50 olitc rcscarchers around the world.Hisrcscarch tt Stanford has bccn cclltcrcd on the following tllrcc maJor
tllemes

2001 Honorary Professor,Chiao Tung Univ∝ siり ,TaiWall
2003

ations.

l)Professor,National lnsitute of lnfoコ matics

Main Awards and Honors:

CaViり QED,"■ ci威 cractions alnong atoms,miicial江 oms,andlight(including Bosc― Einstcin condensalo■ of cxciton― pol血 tons).

2)Contr01ling quantum sta

1992 Carl Zciss Rcscarch Aw罰

s oflight by a slnglc photon(thtt iS,byplacing onc photon on one light pulse).

1992 Nishina Mcmorial P五 ze
1995 Rcscarch Commendation by Ministcr of Sciencc
and Technology Agcncy
1995 Fellowship,Opucal society of America

3)Quantllm hfomation processing,including qualltum c,ptography,
quantunl repeaters and quantum computcrs

Wi■ these as,1肛 s,hC has cncttCiCJけ pursued world― Ladhg rcsctth
ill this fleld.

2000 EEE/LEOS Quantum Electronics Award

While retttning his posilon at Stallford,m2003 hc bccamc pЮ fessorin

2005

ⅣIcdal with Purplc Ribbon,Japancse Cabinet

Japan'sN江 lonal lnstitute of lllforlnaics and in 2003 supeⅣ isor of the2006

Shida Rinzaburo R蔵 zc

Crc江 lon of New Technology Aiming for the Realiztton of Quantum2007 Fellowship,Amc五 can Physical Socicty

lnforrnation Proccssing Systcms"proieCt COnductcd undcr the Core2010 HeJnalan Anton Haus Lccturcr(MIT)Rcscarch for Evolutional Scicncc and Tcchnology(CREST)prOgraln ofthc

JapanScienceandTcchnology

Agency.

ThroughtheseMain Achievements:

Кsponsbilities,besides carying out his own research,he has contnbuted

Professor Yoshihlsa Yamallnoto earned a PhD in 1978 at the UniversiけIn 2009,the Funding Program for World― Leading lmlovat市 cR&D

signiicantly to educaling young researchcrs.

of To● o Gradutte School of Englllcc五ng,and bcgan wo面 ng m thcon

Science and Tcchnology(FIRST progralll)was Crcttcd"thC Japallese

Basic Resettch Laborato五 cs of Nlppon Tclegraph alld Tclcphonc Pllblic

govcmmcnt aimcd at advancing leading rcscarch and development thatnurc at M he also

will strcngthcn Japall's international compcdivcness and achieve world

Corporatlon(now NTT)thC Same yett Dunng is

seⅣ ed as a visitlng scicntist at the Massachusetts lnsitutc of Tcchnology,Lading pcrfomance over tlle next thrcc to ivc ycars The Quantum

Sweden's Royal lnstitutc of Technology, and thc AT&T Belllnfomation Processing ProieCtled by Dr.Yalnalnoto was selected as onc

Laborato五 es. In 1992 hc bccalnc professor of Applicd Physics andof mc 30 ΠRST pr9jects Bom of hs s■ ong dcslrc m mng tOgemer

Elccdcal Enginccrmg at Stanford University.Sincc 2003 hc has also

IIldividual rcscarch efforls on quantuln inforlnation processing under ascⅣ ed as professor in the National■ lsitutc of■ lfomatics,Tokyo,as aJapanese scientist leding thc quantum computer research world.
ne key paper proposing llc idca of a quantunl computer、vas publishcd

nationd team,"the proJcct aims to dcine the specific fom of quantum

computer realizatlon four ycars down the road. It is currcntly behg
caried out by a total of 300 pcrsons, concentrating rcsources onby Oxford Univcrsiり 's DⅣ id Dcutsch in 1985.A quantum compulcr

scmiconductors and superconductors which arc thc solid stale devices.

represents information using quantum properties such as photon

Thcsc arc cxamples of Dr Yamamotoユ s numcrous world― leading

polanzation or clcctron spin. It is not lilnited to the oncs or zcros ofachicvemcnts山 ough his pioneenng studies on usc of quantum optlcs,

digitd computers(bits)but can in theow represent any supcrposidOn of

his smdies dcmonstralhg quanmm enc,pted conllnunication by means

both tllcsc vttucs(qllbitS,units of colnputer inforlnttion in qllantumof a singlc― photon littt source,his fulldalncntal rcscarch on quantum『computing)BCCause there can be iJhitc quantum stttcs,the qubit has

mforlnation processing using an atomic nuclcus or clectron spin,and histhc potential for multiple inforlnation proccssing to be performcd

basic research on Bose― Einstcin condcnsatlon ofexciton― polantons.

simultaneously; and as thc llumbcr of qubits increases, supcr― fastF∝ distinguished and plonccrlllg accomplishment in qualltum optics/

computing becomes possible.

qualltum infbHnation proccssing,and outstanding conmbutiOns to thc

Dr.Yalllamoto's iniial rcscarch took up cohcrcnt communicalon,oncof thc tcchnologics for achicving hgh―speed opical communicalon ovcr

development of this fleld,Dr.Yoshihisa Yamalnoto is hereby awardcd
the Okawa P五 ze.

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