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Dr. Michael Westmoreland

Affiliation:Faculty
Title:Professor
Office:Olin 209
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Ph.D. in Mathematics from University of Texas at Austin, 1991
B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Rice University, 1980
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Research

My interests include Foundations Of Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information Theory, Quantum Computing, and Logic.

Publications

Reverend Bayes takes the Unexpected Examination (with B. Schumacher)
in Math Horizons.

Quantum one-time keypad (with B. Schumacher)
in Physical Review A, 74, No. 4. (October 2006).

Characterization of  Boolean Topological Logics (with A. Fressola, J. Krone and S. Paunov)
in Journal of Multiple - Valued Logic. (January 2006).  

Reversibility of  local transformations of multiparty entanglement (with N. Linden, S. Popescu and B. Schumacher)
in Journal of Quantum Information Processing, 4, 241-250. (August 2005).

Locality and information transfer in quantum operations (with B. Schumacher)
in Journal of Quantum Information Processing, 4, 13-34. (February 2005).

Approximate quantum error correction (with B. Schumacher)
in Journal of Quantum Information Processing, 1, 5-12. (April 2002).

Entanglement measures and quantum channels (with B. Schumacher)
in Special issue on quantum information theory, Journal of Mathematical Physics, 43, Number 9, 4279-4285. (September 2002).

Relative entropy in quantum information theory (with B. Schumacher)
in American Mathematical Society Contemporary Mathematics Series: Quantum Information and Quantum Computation, 305, American Mathematical Society,
 Providence. (2002). 

Implication in twin open set logic (with J. Krone)
in Collision-Based Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Andrew Adamatzky (Editor), Springer Verlag, New York. (2002). 

Indeterminate length quantum coding (with B. Schumacher)
in Physical Review A, 64, 042304. (September 2001).  

Optimal signal ensembles (with B. Schumacher)
in Physical Review A, 63, 022308. (February 2001). 

Collision models for multiple-value logic gates (with J. Krone)
in Journal of Multiple Valued Logic, 6, 405-421. (2001).

Characterizations of Classical and Quantum Communications Processes (with B. Schumacher)
in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 10, 1719-1736. (September 1999). 

Classical Capacity of Quantum Channels, Coherent Quantum Information and Quantum Privacy (with B. Schumacher)
in Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. (1998).

Capacities of Quantum Channels and Quantum Coherent Information (pdf) (with B. Schumacher)
in Quantum Computing and Quantum Communicaitons, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1509. Springer Verlag, New York. (1999). 

Coherent information and quantum cryptography (with B. Schumacher)
in Physical Review Letters, 80, 5695-5697.  (June 1998). 

Analysis of billiard ball computation using phase space logics (pdf) (with J. Krone and B. Schumacher)
in Physica D, 120, 236-252. (September 1998). 

Sending classical information via noisy quantum channels (with B. Schumacher)
in Physical Review A, 56, 131-138. (July 1997). 

Limitation of the amount of accessible information in a quantum channel (pdf) (with B. Schumacher and W. Wootters)
in Physical Review Letters, 76, 3452. (April 1996).  

Classical information capacity of a quantum channel (pdf) (with P. Hausladen, B. Schumacher and W. Wootters)
in Physical Review A, 54, 1869-1876. (September 1996).

Three-valued logics for classical phase spaces (pdf) (with S. Bailey and B. Schumacher)
in International Journal of Theoretical Physics, 35, Number 1, 31-62. (January 1996). 

Sending classical bits via quantum its (with P. Hausladen, B. Schumacher and W. Wootters)
in Fundamental Problems in Quantum Mechanics, D. Greenberger & A. Zeilinger, Editors, New York Academy of Sciences. (1995). 

Zeno’s arrow and classical phase space logics (pdf) (with B. Schumacher)
in Foundations of Physics Letters, 7, Number 3, 259-271. (June 1994). 

Non-Boolean derived logics for classical systems (with B. Schumacher)
in Physical Review A, 48, Number 2, 977-985. (August 1993). 

Quantum Entanglement and the Nonexistence of Superluminal Signals (pdf) (with B. Schumacher)
submitted to Nature