Robert W. Spekkens Junior faculty Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics 31 Caroline St. North, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 2Y5, Canada Publications Research Talks CV Collaborators Contact

News:

• April 21, 2010: NSERC grant
  

  My application for an NSERC Discovery grant was successful.

• March 15, 2010:
  

  My paper with Howard Barnum, Jonathan Barrett, Lisa Orloff Clark, Matthew Leifer, Nicholas Stepanik, Alex Wilce and Robin Wilke entitled "Entropy and information causality in general probabilistic theories" has been published as New J. Phys. 12, 033024 (2010).

• Jan. 9, 2010:
  

  My paper with Nicholas Harrigan entitled "Einstein, Incompleteness, and the epistemic view of quantum states" has been published as Found. Phys. 40, 125 (2010).

• July 8, 2009:
  

  My paper with Gilad Gour and Iman Marvian entitled "Measuring the quality of a quantum reference frame: the relative entropy of frameness" has been published as Phys. Rev. A 80, 012307 (2009). .

• June 9, 2009:
  

  My paper with Stephen Bartlett, Terry Rudolph, and Peter Turner entitled "Quantum communication using a bounded-size quantum reference frame" has been published as New J. Phys. 11, 063013 (2009) and has been highlighted in IOP select.

• March 26, 2009:
  

  My paper with Gilad Gour entitled "The resource theory of quantum reference frames: manipulations and monotones" has been chosen to be part of the New Journal of Physics Best of 2008 collection.

• Jan. 5, 2009:
  

  My paper with Daniel Buzacott, Tony Keehn, Ben Toner and Geoff Pryde entitled "Preparation contextuality powers parity-oblivious multiplexing" has been published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 010401 (2009).

• Nov. 3, 2008: New job!
  

  I have finished my Royal Society fellowship at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge , and started my new position as junior faculty at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.

• Sept. 25, 2008:
  

  My paper with Dennis Kretschmann and David Kribs entitled "Complementarity of Private and Correctable Subsystems in Quantum Cryptography and Error Correction" has been published in Phys. Rev. A 78, 032330 (2008).

• July 7, 2008:
  

  My paper entitled "Negativity and contextuality are equivalent notions of nonclassicality" has been published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 020401 (2008) and was highlighted as an Editor's suggestion.