Daniel Loss

Daniel Loss ( born February 25, 1958 in Winterthur ) is a Swiss physicist and professor of theoretical solid state physics at the University of Basel.

Loss studied medicine from 1977 to 1979 at the University of Zurich, before he moved at the same university in 1979 for Physics and there graduated in Theoretical Physics in 1983 with Professor Straumann in relativity and in 1985 received his doctorate under Prof. Thellung in statistical physics. Subsequently, he was a research associate of Nobel Prize winner Sir Anthony James Leggett and research at the University of Illinois at Urbana (Illinois ). This was followed by work at the IBM Research Center before Loss in 1993 went to the Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Since 1996 he has been Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Basel. Loss works on quantum theory of condensed matter and is considered one of the pioneers in the field of quantum computer.

In 1997, he suggested, together with David P. DiVincenzo of IBM Research the Loss - DiVincenzo quantum computer using electron spins in qubits and quantum dots.

Loss has published more than 260 technical publications and is one of the most cited physicists worldwide. Loss is director of the 2005 founded the Center for Quantum Computing and Quantum Coherence ( QC2 ) in Basel and also co-director of the Swiss National Center of Competence and Research ( NCCR ) in Nanoscale Science at the University of Basel.

Awards

• Humboldt Research Award (2005)
• Marcel Benoist Prize (2010)