Dr Norbert Lütkenhaus

Faculty, Executive Director

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo

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Background

Norbert Lütkenhaus studied at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH Aachen) and the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich, from which he graduated with a thesis in general relativity.

He then changed the field to study quantum optics and quantum cryptography under the supervision of Stephen M. Barnett at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland, UK.

In 1996 he obtained his PhD and then completed postdoctoral positions at Innsbruck (Peter Zoller and Ignacio Cirac) and the Helsinki Institute of Physics (Kalle-Antti Suominen).

He worked for MagiQ Technologies (New York) to initiate the project of commercial realisation of quantum key distribution.

Returning to academia in 2001, he built up and lead an Emmy-Noether Research Group at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, during which time he did his habiliation (2004).

Previously, Lütkenhaus served as the IQC Graduate Program Director. Currently, he is the Executive Director at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) and also a Professor at IQC and in the physics and astronomy department at the University of Waterloo. Lütkenhaus runs the Optical Quantum Communication Theory Group.

Current projects and research expertise

• The theory of practical quantum key distribution systems
• Methods and tools for entanglement verification
• Linear optic quantum logic operation and measurement implementation
• Quantum state detection and estimation theory

Degrees

• Habilitation, University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2003
• PhD in Physics, University of Strathclyde, 1996
• Masters, Diplom Physik, LMU München, 1993