Aram Harrow

{{Short description|American quantum information theorist (born 1980)}}

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|alma_mater = MIT

|doctoral_advisor = Isaac Chuang

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|known_for = Quantum algorithm for linear systems of equations

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Aram Wettroth Harrow (born 1980) is a professor of physics in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Theoretical Physics.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mit.edu/~aram/|title=Aram Harrow|website=www.mit.edu|access-date=2018-02-21}}

Harrow works in quantum information science and quantum computing.{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=6WYsaqMAAAAJ&hl=en|title=Aram Harrow|website=Google Scholar|access-date=2018-02-21}} Together with Avinatan Hassidim and Seth Lloyd, he designed a quantum algorithm for linear systems of equations, which in some cases exhibits an exponential advantage over the best classical algorithms.{{Cite journal|last1=Harrow|first1=Aram W.|last2=Hassidim|first2=Avinatan|last3=Lloyd|first3=Seth|author-link3=Seth Lloyd|date=2009-10-07|title=Quantum Algorithm for Linear Systems of Equations|journal=Physical Review Letters|volume=103|issue=15|pages=150502|arxiv=0811.3171|doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.150502|pmid=19905613|bibcode=2009PhRvL.103o0502H|s2cid=5187993 }} The algorithm has wide application in quantum machine learning.

He is a steering committee member of Quantum Information Processing (QIP),{{Cite web|url=https://qipconference.org/|title=Home|website=qipconference.org|language=en-gb|access-date=2018-02-21}} the largest annual conference in the field of quantum computing. Harrow is a co-administrator of SciRate,{{Cite web|url=https://scirate.com/|title=Top arXiv papers|website=SciRate|language=en-US|access-date=2018-02-21}} a free and open access scientific collaboration network. He also co-runs a blog, The Quantum Pontiff. His collaborators include Peter Shor and Charles H. Bennett.