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*[http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/jono/ Jonathan Oppenheim's Homepage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120918202742/http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/jono/ |date=2012-09-18 }}
*[https://www.ucl.ac.uk/oppenheim/ Oppenheim's Homepage at UCL]
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120918202742/http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/jon Oppenheim's Homepage at University of Cambridge]
*[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v436/n7051/full/nature03909.html Partial Quantum Information]
*[http://old.phys.huji.ac.il/~jono/ Oppenheim's Homepage at Hebrew University]
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130120184024/http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/jono/negative-information.html Negative Information]
*[https://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/11/entangled-uncertainty/ Universe’s Quantum Weirdness Limits Its Weirdness]
*{{cite web |last1=Grossman |first1=Lisa |title=Universe's Quantum Weirdness Limits Its Weirdness |url=https://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/11/entangled-uncertainty/ |website=Wired |access-date=18 March 2024}}
*{{cite web |title=The Physicist Who Bets That Gravity Can’t Be Quantized |url=https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-physicist-who-bets-that-gravity-cant-be-quantized-20230710/ |website=Quanta Magazine |access-date=18 March 2024 |language=en |date=10 July 2023}}
*Jonathan Oppenheim, "A postquantum theory of classical gravity?" – prepublication, last revised 27 November 2023, {{arXiv|1811.03116}}


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For the documentary film editor, see Jonathan Oppenheim (film editor).
Jonathan Oppenheim
Born
Cape Town, South Africa[2]
Alma materUniversity of Toronto (BSc, 1993), University of British Columbia (PhD, 2000)
Known forquantum information theory, quantum gravity
AwardsRoyal Society Wolfson Merit Award, EPSRC Established Career Fellowship[1]
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity College London
University of Cambridge
Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University
University of Alberta[1]
ThesisQuantum Time (2000)
Doctoral advisorBill Unruh
Websitewww.ucl.ac.uk/oppenheim/

Jonathan Oppenheim is a professor of physics at University College London. He is an expert in quantum information theory and quantum gravity.

Work

Oppenheim proved the third law of thermodynamics (first conjectured by Walther Nernst in 1912) with Lluis Masanes.[3][4]

Together with Michał Horodecki and Andreas Winter, he discovered quantum state-merging and used this primitive to show that quantum information could be negative.[5] More recently he and collaborators have developed a resource theory for thermodynamics on the nano and quantum scale.[6][7]

His Ph.D. under Bill Unruh at the University of British Columbia was on Quantum time. In 2004 he was a postdoctoral researcher under Jacob Bekenstein and a Royal Society University Fellow in Cambridge before moving to University College London.

In 2023, Oppenheim published a proposal for a hybrid theory that couples classical general relativity with quantum field theory. According to this proposal, spacetime is not quantized but smooth and continuous, and is subject to random fluctuations.[8][9]

Edible ballot society

As a student, Oppenheim was involved in the Edible Ballot Society which satirically advanced eating ballots to highlight the democracy gap in electoral politics.[10] He was arrested at the 1997 APEC protests on University of British Columbia campus.[11] He withdrew from the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP following the refusal of the Prime Minister to testify.[12][13] His group was responsible for smuggling a siege catapult[14] into the medieval city of Quebec during the Summit of Americas, 2001. It was used to lob teddy bears.[15][16][17]

Selected publications

  • Oppenheim, Jonathan; Horodecki, Michał; Horodecki, Paweł; Horodecki, Ryszard (11 October 2002). "Thermodynamical Approach to Quantifying Quantum Correlations". Physical Review Letters. 89 (18). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.180402.
  • Horodecki, Michał; Oppenheim, Jonathan; Winter, Andreas (August 2005). "Partial quantum information". Nature. 436 (7051): 673–676. doi:10.1038/nature03909.
  • Oppenheim, Jonathan (24 February 2006). "Implementing a Quantum Computation by Free Falling" (PDF). Science. 311 (5764): 1106–1107. doi:10.1126/science.1124295. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  • Oppenheim, Jonathan; Wehner, Stephanie (19 November 2010). "The Uncertainty Principle Determines the Nonlocality of Quantum Mechanics". Science. 330 (6007): 1072–1074. doi:10.1126/science.1192065.
  • Horodecki, Michał; Oppenheim, Jonathan (26 June 2013). "Fundamental limitations for quantum and nanoscale thermodynamics". Nature Communications. 4 (1). doi:10.1038/ncomms3059.
  • Brandão, Fernando G. S. L.; Horodecki, Michał; Oppenheim, Jonathan; Renes, Joseph M.; Spekkens, Robert W. (18 December 2013). "Resource Theory of Quantum States Out of Thermal Equilibrium". Physical Review Letters. 111 (25). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.250404.
  • Brandão, Fernando; Horodecki, Michał; Ng, Nelly; Oppenheim, Jonathan; Wehner, Stephanie (17 March 2015). "The second laws of quantum thermodynamics". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (11): 3275–3279. doi:10.1073/pnas.1411728112.
  • Masanes, Lluís; Oppenheim, Jonathan (14 March 2017). "A general derivation and quantification of the third law of thermodynamics". Nature Communications. 8 (1). doi:10.1038/ncomms14538.
  • Oppenheim, Jonathan (4 December 2023). "A Postquantum Theory of Classical Gravity?". Physical Review X. 13 (4). doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.13.041040.

References

  1. ^ a b "Jonathan Oppenheim". Simons Foundation. 22 January 2016. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  2. ^ "Jonathan Oppenheim". ieeexplore.ieee.org. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  3. ^ "Cooling to absolute zero mathematically outlawed after a century".
  4. ^ Masanes, Lluís; Oppenheim, Jonathan (2017). "A general derivation and quantification of the third law of thermodynamics". Nature Communications. 8: 14538. arXiv:1412.3828. Bibcode:2017NatCo...814538M. doi:10.1038/ncomms14538. PMC 5355879. PMID 28290452.
  5. ^ "Quantum information can be negative"
  6. ^ Horodecki, Michał; Oppenheim, Jonathan (2013-06-26). "Fundamental limitations for quantum and nanoscale thermodynamics". Nature Communications. 4: 2059. arXiv:1111.3834. Bibcode:2013NatCo...4.2059H. doi:10.1038/ncomms3059. PMID 23800725. S2CID 29768679.
  7. ^ Brandão, Fernando; Horodecki, Michał; Ng, Nelly; Oppenheim, Jonathan; Wehner, Stephanie (2015-03-17). "The second laws of quantum thermodynamics". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (11): 3275–3279. arXiv:1305.5278. Bibcode:2015PNAS..112.3275B. doi:10.1073/pnas.1411728112. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 4372001. PMID 25675476.
  8. ^ Jonathan Oppenheim (2023). "A Postquantum Theory of Classical Gravity?". Physical Review X (13): 041040. Retrieved 2023-12-17.
  9. ^ Hannah Devlin (2023-12-04). "'Wobbly spacetime' may help resolve contradictory physics theories". The Guardian. Retrieved 2023-12-17.
  10. ^ Pue, W. Wesley (2000). Pepper in our Eyes: the APEC Affair. Vancouver, Canada: UBC Press. ISBN 978-0-7748-0779-1.
  11. ^ Clark, Campbell (March 27, 2002). "APEC activists deserve an apology, RCMP told". The Globe and Mail.
  12. ^ Armstrong, Jane (March 1, 2000). "Protesters withdraw complaints from APEC summit inquiry". The Globe and Mail.
  13. ^ "University of BC timeline".
  14. ^ Mitchell, Dave. "Case Study: The Teddy Bear Catapult". Beautiful Trouble. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  15. ^ Hanes, Allison (May 1, 2001). "The great teddy-bear turn-in". The Gazette (Montreal).
  16. ^ "Group Claims Responsibility". 10 October 2008.
  17. ^ "Quantum physicist helps travellers out of a hole". 26 September 2011.
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