David DiVincenzo

Biography

Received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, worked at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center and as a visiting scientist at various institutes. Currently a professor at RWTH Aachen University and scientific head of quantum computing at Forschungszentrum Jülich.

Key discoveries

• DiVincenzo criteria: a set of five (later seven) requirements that a physical chip must satisfy to implement quantum computing: scalable qubits, initialization, long coherence time, a universal gate set, readout measurement, and others.
• Research on spin qubits in silicon and superconducting qubits.
• Work on quantum error correction and topological quantum computing.