Matthew Hastings is an American physicist, currently a Principal Researcher at Microsoft. Previously, he was a professor at Duke University and a research scientist at the Center for Nonlinear Studies and Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory. He received his PhD in physics at MIT, in 1997, under Leonid Levitov.[1]

Matthew Hastings
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Mathematics
InstitutionsMicrosoft
Duke University
Los Alamos National Laboratory

While Hastings primarily works in quantum information science, he has made contributions to a range of topics in physics and related fields.

He proved an extension of the Lieb-Schultz-Mattis theorem (see Lieb-Robinson bounds) to dimensions greater than one,[2] providing foundational mathematical insights into topological quantum computing.

He disproved the additivity conjecture for the classical capacity of quantum channels, a long standing open problem in quantum Shannon theory.[3]

He and Michael Freedman formulated the NLTS conjecture, a precursor to a quantum PCP theorem (qPCP).[4]

Awards and honours

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He is invited to speak at the 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians in St. Petersburg in the mathematical physics section.[5]

Publications

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References

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  1. ^ Hastings, Matthew B. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Center for Nonlinear Studies. Los Alamos National Laboratory. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  2. ^ Hastings, M. B. (2004). "Lieb-Schultz-Mattis in Higher Dimensions". Phys. Rev. B. 69 (10): 104431. arXiv:cond-mat/0305505. Bibcode:2004PhRvB..69j4431H. doi:10.1103/physrevb.69.104431. S2CID 119610203.
  3. ^ Hastings, M. B. (2009). "A Counterexample to Additivity of Minimum Output Entropy". Nature Physics. 5: 255. arXiv:0809.3972. doi:10.1038/nphys1224.
  4. ^ Freedman, Michael H.; Hastings, Matthew B. (January 2014). "Quantum Systems on Non-$k$-Hyperfinite Complexes: a generalization of classical statistical mechanics on expander graphs". Quantum Information and Computation. 14 (1&2): 144–180. arXiv:1301.1363. doi:10.26421/qic14.1-2-9. ISSN 1533-7146. S2CID 10850329.
  5. ^ "ICM Section 11. Mathematical Physics".