Paweł Horodecki

Who is Paweł Horodecki?

Paweł Horodecki is a Polish professor of physics at the Gdańsk University of Technology working in the field of quantum information theory. He is best known for introducing the so-called Peres-Horodecki criterion for testing whether a state is entangled and showing that there exist states which are entangled, but no pure entangled states can be obtained from them by means of local operations and classical communication. Such states are called bound entangled states. He also showed that the bound entanglement can lead to teleportation with the fidelity impossible to achieve without support of it.

Paweł Horodecki was educated in Poland, receiving an M.Sc from the University of Gdańsk, and a Ph.D from the Gdańsk University of Technology, and a habilitation from the University of Gdańsk.