Dr Adrian Kent

Reader in Quantum Physics

Whereabouts

I expect to be in Cambridge most of the time in 2010. My office in the Cambridge Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations is on the ground floor of Pavilion F of the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Other Affiliations

I am an Associate of Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario, a Fellow of Wolfson College and also Director of Studies in Mathematics at Darwin College.

Book

Many Worlds? Everett, Quantum Theory and Reality was published by Oxford University Press in June 2010. More information here.

Research

My main research interests are in quantum foundations, quantum information theory and quantum cryptography. Most of my papers and e-prints on these subjects are on the physics arxiv. Some (as yet rather sketchy) attempts to describe some of my recent work in these areas can be found here.

Earlier in my career I worked on conformal field theory, representation theory and integrable models. My papers on these subjects include a classification of the unitary representations of the Virasoro, Ramond and Neveu-Schwarz algebras, which uses the so-called GKO construction relating representations of the Virasoro and affine Kac-Moody algebras. Some results on the representation theory of N=2 superconformal algebras are here. An early paper on the ADHM construction in 4k dimensions is here. Here are descriptions of the singular vectors (see also here) and a recursion formula for the signature characters of highest weight representations of the Virasoro algebra; some calculations of signature characters of highest weight representations of Lie algebras are here.

Science and Literature

I participate in the splendid Cambridge Science and Literature Reading Group and the Wolfson Contemporary Reading Group.

Email:
A.P.A.Kent at damtp.cam.ac.uk

Mail:

Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics
Centre for Mathematical Sciences
Wilberforce Road
Cambridge CB3 0WA
United Kingdom

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Last updated July 2010.