Jon YardRichard P. Feynman Postdoctoral Fellow CNLS/CCS-3 Quantum information and computation 
Office: TA-3, Bldg 1690, Room 123 Mail Stop: B258 Phone: (505) 667-6625 Fax: (505) 665-2659 jtyard@lanl.gov home page |  | Educational Background/Employment:- Ph.D. (2005) Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
- M.S. (1999) Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
- B.S. (1997) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
- Employment:
- 2009-present: Feynman Fellow, LANL
- 2007-2009: Postdoc, LANL
- 2005-2007: Postdoc, Caltech
- 2005-2005: Postdoc, McGill University
- 1999-2005: Research Assistant, Stanford University
Research Interests: - Quantum information theory
- Quantum computation and algorithms
- Topological quantum computation
Selected Recent Publications: - F. Brandão, M. Christandl, J. Yard, Faithful squashed entanglement, arXiv:1010:1750
- J. Yard, I. Devetak, Optimal quantum source coding with quantum side information at the encoder and decoder,
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 55 (2009).
- G. Smith, J. Yard, Quantum communication with zero-capacity channels, Science, 321 (2008).
- I. Devetak, J. Yard, Exact cost of redistributing quantum states, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 (2008).
- P. Hayden, M. Horodecki, A. Winter, J. Yard, A decoupling approach to the quantum capacity, Open systems and information dynamics, 15 (2008).
- P. Wocjan, J. Yard, The Jones polynomial: quantum algorithms and applications in quantum complexity theory, Quantum Information and Computation, 8 (2008)
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