Simone Severini
{{short description|Italian computer scientist}}
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| education = University of Bristol (PhD)
| alma_mater = University of Florence
| fields = Physics, Computer Science, Quantum Computing
| workplaces = UCL
Institute for Quantum Computing
| doctoral_advisor = Richard Jozsa[https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=99574 Mathematics Genealogy Project]
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| known_for = Braunstein-Ghosh-Severini Entropy
Induced gravity
Quantum contextuality
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| awards = Royal Society University Research Fellowship
Newton International Fellowship
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Simone Severini is an Italian-born British computer scientist. He is currently Professor of Physics of Information at University College London, and Director of Quantum Computing at Amazon Web Services in Seattle.
Work
Severini worked in quantum information science and complex systems. Together with Adan Cabello and Andreas Winter, he defined a graph-theoretic framework for studying quantum contextuality, and together with Tomasz Konopka, Fotini Markopoulou, and Lee Smolin, he introduced a random graph model of spacetime called quantum graphity.Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Lee Smolin, The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time: A Proposal in Natural Philosophy, Cambridge University Press (2014).Shyam Wuppuluri and Giancarlo Ghirardi (Eds.), Space, Time and the Limits of Human Understanding (Foreword by John Stachel and Afterword by Noam Chomsky), Springer (2017). In network theory, he co-introduced the Braunstein–Ghosh–Severini entropy,{{cite journal | last1=Braunstein | first1=Samuel L. |author-link=Samuel L. Braunstein| last2=Ghosh | first2=Sibasish | last3=Severini | first3=Simone | title=The Laplacian of a Graph as a Density Matrix: A Basic Combinatorial Approach to Separability of Mixed States | journal=Annals of Combinatorics | publisher=Springer Science and Business Media LLC | volume=10 | issue=3 | year=2006 | issn=0218-0006 | doi=10.1007/s00026-006-0289-3 | pages=291–317|arxiv=quant-ph/0406165| s2cid=14522309 }} with applications to quantum gravity.
He served as an editor of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. In 2015 he was the technical co-founder and one of the first scientific advisors of Cambridge Quantum Computing, with Béla Bollobás, Imre Leader, and Fernando Brandão. He co-founded Phasecrafthttps://www.phasecraft.io/ in 2018 with Toby Cubitt, Ashley Montanaro, and John Morton.
Publications
- {{cite web|url= https://arxiv.org:443/find/all/1/au:+severini_simone/0/1/0/all/0/1?per_page=100 |title=Simone Severini's articles on arXiv |website=Arxiv.org}}
- {{Cite journal|arxiv=0801.0861 |title= Quantum graphity: A model of emergent locality| doi=10.1103/PhysRevD.77.104029 | volume=77|journal=Physical Review D |bibcode=2008PhRvD..77j4029K | year=2008|issue= 10|pages= 104029|last1= Konopka|first1= Tomasz|last2= Markopoulou|first2= Fotini|last3= Severini|first3= Simone|s2cid= 6959359}}
- {{Cite journal|arxiv=0911.5075 | title=A quantum Bose-Hubbard model with evolving graph as toy model for emergent spacetime| doi=10.1103/PhysRevD.81.104032 |volume=81|journal=Physical Review D |bibcode= 2010PhRvD..81j4032H | year=2010| pages=104032| last1=Hamma| first1=Alioscia| last2=Markopoulou| first2=Fotini| last3=Lloyd| first3=Seth| last4=Caravelli| first4=Francesco| last5=Severini| first5=Simone| last6=Markstrom| first6=Klas| issue=10| s2cid=17149981}}
- {{Cite journal|arxiv=1401.7081 |title= Graph-Theoretic Approach to Quantum Correlations |journal= Physical Review Letters|volume=112|year=2014|issue= 4|page= 040401|doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.040401|bibcode=2014PhRvL.112d0401C |pmid=24580419|last1= Cabello |first1= Adán |last2= Severini |first2= Simone |last3= Winter |first3= Andreas |s2cid= 34998358 }}
- {{Cite web |title=Nella terra dei qubit |url=https://www.flacoedizioni.com/115-fisica-informatica-quantistica.html |access-date=2022-12-23 |website=Trèfoglie |language=it}}
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