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Michał Horodecki

Michał Horodecki is a Polish physicist at the University of Gdańsk working in the field of quantum information theory, notable for his work on entanglement theory.

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Michał Horodecki (born 19731) is a Polish physicist at the University of Gdańsk working in the field of quantum information theory, notable for his work on entanglement theory.2

He co-discovered the Peres–Horodecki criterion for testing whether a state is entangled,3 and used it to find bound entanglement together with his brother Paweł Horodecki and father Ryszard Horodecki. He co-discovered with Jonathan Oppenheim, Paweł Horodecki and Karol Horodecki that secret key can be drawn from some bound entangled states. Together with Fernando Brandao he proved that every one-dimensional quantum state with a finite correlation length obeys an area law for entanglement entropy. Together with Oppenheim and Andreas Winter, he discovered quantum state-merging and used this primitive to show that quantum information could be negative.

2015 he was awarded the Minister of Science and Higher Education Awards of the Polish government.4

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  1. Polish Academy of Sciences (ed.). "Horodecki Michał". Archived from the original on 2019-04-17. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
  2. "Prof. Michał Horodecki – I got my fascination with physics from the family home". University of Gdańsk. Archived from the original on 2018-12-20. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  3. Horodecki, Michał; Horodecki, Paweł; Horodecki, Ryszard (1996). "Separability of mixed states: necessary and sufficient conditions". Physics Letters A. 223 (1–2): 1–8. arXiv:quant-ph/9605038. Bibcode:1996PhLA..223....1H. doi:10.1016/S0375-9601(96)00706-2. S2CID 10580997.
  4. "Professors from the Tri-City recognized in Warsaw". trojmiasto.pl (in Polish). 2015-10-13. Retrieved 2023-11-02.