Andreas Winter received a Diploma degree in Mathematics from Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, in 1997, and a Ph.D. from Fakultät für Mathematik, Universität Bielefeld, Germany, in 1999. He was Research Associate at the University of Bielefeld until 2001, and then with the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol, UK. In 2003, still with the University of Bristol, he was appointed Lecturer in Mathematics, and in 2006 Professor of Physics of Information. From 2007 to 2012 he was in addition a Visiting Research Professor with the Centre of Quantum Technologies at NUS, Singpore. Since 2012 he has been ICREA Research Professor with the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. His research interests include quantum and classical Shannon theory, and discrete mathematics.
For his work, in 2007 he was awarded a Philipp Leverhulme Prize and in 2012 a Whitehead prize of the London Mathematical Society. He is recipient, along with Charles H. Bennett, Igor Devetak, Aram W. Harrow and Peter W. Shor, of the 2017 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award. In 2022, he has received one of the three QCMC International Quantum Awards, furthermore an Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize, as well as a Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship of Technische Universität München (IAS).
Selected Awards
2022 Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship of TUM-IAS, Technical University of Munich
2022 Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize
2022 QCMC International Quantum Award
2017 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award (for Ref. 6)
2012 Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society
2007 Philipp Leverhulme Prize
Research Interests
Quantum and classical Shannon theory, entropy and applications, thermodynamics, foundations of quantum mechanics, game theory, combinatorics and discrete mathematics
Selected Publications
R. Ahlswede & A. Winter, “Strong Converse for Identification via Quantum Channels”, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 48, no. 3, 569-579 (2002).
A. Winter, “Extrinsic and intrinsic data in quantum measurements: asymptotic convex decomposition of positive operator valued measures”, Commun. Math. Phys., vol. 244, no. 1, 157-185 (2004).
M. Horodecki, J.Oppenheim & A. Winter, “Partial quantum information”, Nature, vol. 436, 673-676 (2005).
I. Devetak & A. Winter, “Distillation of secret key and entanglement from quantum states”, Proc. Roy. Soc. London A, vol. 461, 207-235 (2005).
R. Duan, S. Severini & A. Winter, “Zero-Error Communication via Quantum Channels, Non-Commutative Graphs and a quantum Lovász number”, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 59, no. 2, 1164-1174 (2013).
C. H. Bennett, I. Devetak, A. W. Harrow, P. W. Shor & A. Winter, “The Quantum Reverse Shannon Theorem and Resource Tradeoffs for Simulating Quantum Channels”, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 60, no. 5, 2926-2959 (2014).
A. Winter & D. Yang, “Operational Resource Theory of Coherence”, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 116, 120404 (2016).
A. Winter, “Tight uniform continuity bounds for quantum entropies: conditional entropy, relative entropy distance and energy constraints”, Commun. Math. Phys., vol. 347, no. 1, 291-313 (2016).
A. Winter, “Weak locking capacity of quantum channels can be much larger than private capacity”, J. Cryptol., vol. 30, no. 1, 1-21 (2017).
V. Auletta, D. Ferraioli, A. Rai, G. Scarpa & A. Winter, “Belief-invariant Equilibria in Games with Incomplete Information”, Theor. Comput. Sci., vol. 895, 151-177 (2021).
A. Winter, “A genuinely natural information measure”, arXiv:2103.16662 (2021).
Aniello, Paolo; L'Innocente, Sonia; Mancini, Stefano; Parisi, Vincenzo; Svampa, Ilaria; Winter, Andreas: Invariant measures on p-adic Lie groups: the p-adic quaternion algebra and the Haar integral on the p-adic rotation groups. , 2023 more…
Atif, Touheed Anwar; Pradhan, S. Sandeep; Winter, Andreas: Quantum soft-covering lemma with applications to rate-distortion coding, resolvability and identification via quantum channels. , 2023 more…
Chen, Xinan; Zhang, Yujie; Winter, Andreas; Lorenz, Virginia O.; Chitambar, Eric: Information Carried by a Single Particle in Quantum Multiple-Access Channels. , 2023 more…
Colomer, Pau; Winter, Andreas: Decoupling by local random unitaries without simultaneous smoothing, and applications to multi-user quantum information tasks. , 2023 more…
Liss, Rotem; Mor, Tal; Winter, Andreas: Geometry of entanglement and separability in Hilbert subspaces of dimension up to three. , 2023 more…
Mamindlapally, Manideep; Winter, Andreas: Singleton Bounds for Entanglement-Assisted Classical and Quantum Error Correcting Codes. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 69 (9), 2023, 5857-5868 more…
Piccolini, Matteo; Karczewski, Marcin; Winter, Andreas; Franco, Rosario Lo: Robust generation of $N$-partite $N$-level singlet states by identical particle interferometry. , 2023 more…
Salek, Farzin; Winter, Andreas: New Protocols for Conference Key and Multipartite Entanglement Distillation. , 2023 more…
Schindler, Joseph; Winter, Andreas: Continuity bounds on observational entropy and measured relative entropies. Journal of Mathematical Physics 64 (9), 2023 more…
Strasberg, Philipp; Winter, Andreas; Gemmer, Jochen; Wang, Jiaozi: Classicality, Markovianity, and local detailed balance from pure-state dynamics. Physical Review A 108 (1), 2023 more…
Xu, Zhen-Peng; Schwonnek, René; Winter, Andreas: Bounding the joint numerical range of Pauli strings by graph parameters. , 2023 more…
2022
Fanizza, Marco; Lumbreras, Josep; Winter, Andreas: Quantum theory in finite dimension cannot explain every general process with finite memory. , 2022 more…
