Richard Cleve

Biography

Dr. Richard Cleve is a professor in the Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON, Canada.

Research Interest

Quantum information can be used to perform a variety of feats that cannot be accomplished with classical information. For example, there is a quantum algorithm that can factorize integers very quickly (in polynomial time), whereas all known conventional algorithms require an enormous (exponential) amount of time to do this. Quantum information can also exhibit “non-local” behaviour, whereby two (or more) quantum systems that are physically separated exhibit a collective behaviour that cannot occur with classical systems, unless communication occurs between them.