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Asher Peres

Asher Peres (Hebrew: אשר פרס‎; January 30, 1934 – January 1, 2005) was an Israeli physicist, considered a pioneer in quantum information theory, as well as the connections between quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.[1]

According to his autobiography, he was born Aristide Pressman in Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne in France, where his father, a Polish electrical engineer, had found work laying down power lines. He was given the name Aristide at birth, because the name his parents wanted, Asher, the name of his maternal grandfather, was not on the list of permissible French given names. When he went to live in Israel, he changed his first name to Asher and, as was common among immigrants, changed his family name to the Hebrew Peres, which he used for the rest of his life.

Peres obtained his Ph.D. in 1959 at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology under Nathan Rosen. Peres spent most of his academic career at Technion, where in 1988 he was appointed distinguished professor of physics.

Peres is well known for his work relating quantum mechanics and information theory, an approach which is extensively used in his textbook referenced below. Among other things, he helped to develop the Peres-Horodecki criterion for quantum entanglement, as well as the concept of quantum teleportation, and collaborated with others on quantum information and special relativity.[2] He also introduced the Peres metric and researched the Hamilton–Jacobi–Einstein equation[3] in general relativity. With M. Feingold, he published what is known to mathematicians as the Feingold-Peres conjecture and to physicists as the Feingold-Peres theory.[1][4][5]

He died in Haifa, Israel.

References

  1. ^ a b Terzian, Joseph E.;  
  2. ^ A. Peres and D. R. Terno (2004). Quantum information and relativity theory. Rev. Mod. Phys. 76 (1). p. 93. 
  3. ^ A. Peres (1962). "On Cauchy’s problem in general relativity - II". Nuovo Cimento 26 (1) (Springer). pp. 53–62. 
  4. ^ Feingold, Mario; Peres, Asher (1986). "Distribution of matrix elements of chaotic systems". Phys. Rev. A 34 (1): 591–595.  
  5. ^  

Further reading

  • Asher Peres (1993). Quantum Theory, Concepts and Methods. Kluwer.  
  • I am the cat who walks by himselfAsher Peres,

External links

  • 1 (2006)36, Foundations of Physics, I am the cat who walks by himselfA. Peres, (Autobiography, published 2004).
  • 157-173 (2006)36 Foundations of Physics, List of publications.
  • Asher Peres, 1934-2005N. Lindner, P. Scudo and D. R. Terno: (obituary by his students).
  • Asher Peres, 1943-2005L. Peres Hari: (obituary by his daughter).
  • "Asher Peres", a 5 January 2005 weblog entry by Michael Nielsen
  • Fuchs, Christopher A.; Peres, Asher (March 2000). "'"Quantum Theory Needs No 'Interpretation. Physics Today 53 (3).  
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