Simone Severini
NationalityItalian, British
EducationUniversity of Bristol (PhD)
Alma materUniversity of Florence
Known forBraunstein-Ghosh-Severini Entropy
Induced gravity
Quantum contextuality
AwardsRoyal Society University Research Fellowship
Newton International Fellowship
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics, Computer Science, Quantum Computing
InstitutionsUCL
Institute for Quantum Computing
Doctoral advisorRichard Jozsa[1]
Websitewww.ucl.ac.uk/~ucapsse

Simone Severini is an Italian-born British computer scientist. He is currently Professor of Physics of Information at University College London, and Director of Quantum Computing at Amazon Web Services in Seattle.

Work

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Severini worked in quantum information science and complex systems. Together with Adan Cabello and Andreas Winter, he defined a graph-theoretic framework for studying quantum contextuality, and together with Tomasz Konopka, Fotini Markopoulou, and Lee Smolin, he introduced a random graph model of spacetime called quantum graphity.[2][3] In network theory, he co-introduced the Braunstein–Ghosh–Severini entropy,[4] with applications to quantum gravity.

He served as an editor of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. In 2015 he was the technical co-founder and one of the first scientific advisors of Cambridge Quantum Computing, with Béla Bollobás, Imre Leader, and Fernando Brandão. He co-founded Phasecraft in 2018 with Toby Cubitt, Ashley Montanaro, and John Morton.

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References

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  1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Lee Smolin, The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time: A Proposal in Natural Philosophy, Cambridge University Press (2014).
  3. ^ Shyam Wuppuluri and Giancarlo Ghirardi (Eds.), Space, Time and the Limits of Human Understanding (Foreword by John Stachel and Afterword by Noam Chomsky), Springer (2017).
  4. ^ Braunstein, Samuel L.; Ghosh, Sibasish; Severini, Simone (2006). "The Laplacian of a Graph as a Density Matrix: A Basic Combinatorial Approach to Separability of Mixed States". Annals of Combinatorics. 10 (3). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 291–317. arXiv:quant-ph/0406165. doi:10.1007/s00026-006-0289-3. ISSN 0218-0006. S2CID 14522309.