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I expect to be in Cambridge most of the time from January 1, 2009. My office in the Cambridge Centre for Quantum Computation is on the ground floor of Pavilion F of the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.
I am an Associate of Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario. In September 2007, Jonathan Barrett, David Wallace and I co-organized a conference at PI, "Many Worlds at 50", marking the 50th anniversary of Everett's paper proposing the idea of a many-worlds interpretation of quantum theory. Along with Simon Saunders, we are co-editing a book, tentatively titled "Many Worlds? Everett, Quantum Theory and Reality", including papers from this conference, to be published by Oxford University Press in 2009.
I'm a Fellow of Wolfson College and also Director of Studies in Mathematics at Darwin College and a member of Clare College, where I did my undergraduate and graduate degrees.
I regularly participate in the splendid Cambridge Science and Literature Reading Group and the Wolfson Contemporary Reading Group.
Research
My main research interests are in quantum information theory,
quantum cryptography and foundational questions in quantum theory.
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.
Email:
A.P.A.Kent at damtp.cam.ac.uk
Mail:
Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics
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