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{{Short description|American mechanical engineer and physicist}} {{Use American English|date=January 2019}} {{Infobox scientist |name = Seth Lloyd |image = Seth Lloyd.jpg |caption = Seth Lloyd in 2013 |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1960|08|02}} |birth_place = |death_date = |death_place = |citizenship = |nationality = American |fields = [[Physicist]] |workplaces = [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]<br>[[California Institute of Technology]]<br>[[Los Alamos National Laboratory]]<br>[[Santa Fe Institute]] |education = [[Phillips Academy]] (1978)<br>[[Harvard College]] (A.B., 1982)<br>[[Cambridge University]] (M.Phil, 1984)<br>[[Rockefeller University]] (Ph.D. physics, 1988) |doctoral_advisor = [[Heinz Pagels]] |academic_advisors = |doctoral_students = |notable_students = |known_for = Studying [[limits of computation]]<br>''[[Programming the Universe]]''<br>[[Coherent information]]<br>[[Continuous-variable quantum information]]<br>[[Dynamical decoupling]]<br>[[Effective complexity]]<br>[[Quantum capacity]]<br>[[Quantum illumination]]<br>[[Quantum mechanics of time travel]]<br>[[Quantum algorithm for linear systems of equations]] |influences = |influenced = |awards = |signature = <!--(filename only)--> |footnotes = }} '''Seth Lloyd''' (born August 2, 1960) is a [[professor]] of [[mechanical engineering]] and [[physics]] at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]. His research area is the interplay of [[information]] with [[complex systems]], especially [[quantum mechanics|quantum]] systems. He has performed seminal work in the fields of [[quantum computation]], [[quantum communication]] and [[quantum biology]], including proposing the first technologically feasible design for a [[quantum computer]], demonstrating the viability of quantum analog computation, proving quantum analogs of [[Shannon's noisy channel theorem]], and designing novel methods for [[quantum error correction]] and noise reduction.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://news.mit.edu/2015/seth-lloyd-appointed-nam-suh-professor-mechanical-engineering-0831 |title=Seth Lloyd, leading quantum mechanics expert, appointed Nam P. Suh Professor|last=MIT News Office|date=2015-08-31|language=en|access-date=2020-10-07}}</ref>
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