John Preskill's Publications
1. Cosmological Production of Superheavy Magnetic Monopoles, Phys. Rev. Lett. 43, 1365-1368 (1979).
2. CP Nonconservation
Without Elementary Scalar Fields (with
3. Subgroup Alignment in Hypercolor Theories, Nucl. Phys. B177, 21-59 (1981).
4. "Decoupling" Constraints on Massless Composite Particles (with S. Weinberg), Phys. Rev. D 24, 1059-1062 (1981).
5. Massless
Composites with Massive Constituents (with
6. Composite Quarks and Leptons, in
Particles and Fields -- 1981: Testing the Standard Model, ed. C. Heusch and W. Kirk,
7. Catalyzed Nucleon Decay in Neutron Stars
(with
8. Cosmology of the Invisible Axion (with M. Wise and F. Wilczek), Phys. Lett. 120B, 127-132 (1983).
9. Monopoles in the Very Early Universe, in
the The Very Early Universe,
ed. S. Hawking, G. Gibbons, and S. Siklos,
10. Fractional Charge and Magnetic Monopoles, in Magnetic Monopoles, ed. R. Carrigan and P. Trower, New York (Plenum Press, 1983), p. 111-126.
11. Anomalies and Fermion Masses in D Dimensions (with P. Frampton and H. van Dam), Phys. Lett. 124B, 209-211 (1983).
12. Dyon-Axion
Dynamics (with
13. Monopoles in 1983, in Monopole '83, ed.
J. Stone,
14. Magnetic Monopoles, Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 34, 461-530 (1984).
15. Magnetic Monopoles in Particle Physics and Cosmology, in Inner Space/Outer Space, ed. E. Kolb, D. Schramm, and M. Turner, Chicago (University of Chicago Press, 1985), p. 373-389.
16. Composite Fermions Without U(1)'s (with H. Georgi), Phys. Lett. 156B, 369-372 (1985).
17. A Supersymmetric Regulator (with B. Grinstein), CALT-68-1234 (1985), unpublished.
18. Topological Interpretation of Reducible Gauge Anomalies (with J. Feng), CALT-68-1278 (1985), unpublished.
19. Neutrino Masses and Family Symmetry (with B. Grinstein and M. Wise), Phys. Lett. 159B, 57-61 (1985).
20. The Significance of Voids (with S. Otto, D. Politzer, and M. Wise), Ap. J. 304, 62-74 (1986).
21. Poisson Clusters and Poisson Voids (with D. Politzer), Phys. Rev. Lett. 56, 99-102 (1986).
22. Chiral Gauge
Theories in the 1/N Expansion (with
23. Chiral Gauge
Theories on the Lattice (with
24. Vortices and Monopoles, in Architecture of the Fundamental Interactions at Short Distances ed. P. Ramond and R. Stora, Amsterdam (North-Holland, 1987), p. 235-338.
25. Gauge Theories in the Many-Gluon Limit (with Sandip Trivedi), Nucl. Phys. B1A (Proc. Suppl.), 83-93 (1987).
26. Wormholes in Spacetime and the Constants of Nature, Nucl. Phys. B323, 141-186 (1989).
27. Wormholes in Spacetime
and theta QCD (with
28. Magnetic Wormholes and Topological Symmetry (with A. K. Gupta, J. Hughes, and M. B. Wise), Nucl. Phys. B333, 195-220 (1990).
29. Cosmic Strings, in Encyclopedia of Physics, second edition, ed. R. G. Lerner and G. L. Trigg, New York (VCH, 1991), p. 200-202.
30. Local Discrete Symmetry and Quantum-Mechanical Hair (with L. Krauss), Nucl. Phys. B B341, 50-100 (1990).
31. Spin Structures and Pin Structures (with B. Grinstein and R. Rohm), CALT-68-1428 (1989), unpublished
32. Gauge Anomalies in an Effective Field
Theory, Ann. Phys. 210, 323-379 (1991).
33. Quantum Hair, Phys. Scripta T36 258-264 (1991).
34. Cosmology and Broken Discrete Symmetry (with S.P. Trivedi, F. Wilczek and M. Wise), Nucl. Phys. B363, 207-220 (1991).
35. Dynamical Effect of Quantum Hair (with S. Coleman and F. Wilczek), Mod. Phys. Lett. A6, 1631-1642 (1991).
36. Limitations on the Statistical
Description of Black Holes (with P. Schwarz, A. Shapere,
37. Growing Hair on Black Holes (with S. Coleman and F. Wilczek), Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 1975-1978 (1991).
38. Internal Frame Dragging and a Global Analog of the Aharonov-Bohm Effect (with J. March-Russell and F. Wilczek), Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 2567-2571 (1992), hep-th/9112054 .
39. On Detecting Discrete
40. Topological Approach to Alice Electrodynamics (with M. Bucher and Hoi-Kwong Lo), Nucl. Phys. B386, 3-26 (1992), hep-th/9112039 .
41. Quantum Field Theory of Nonabelian Strings and Vortices (with M. G. Alford, Kai-Ming Lee and J. March-Russell), Nucl. Phys. B384, 251-317 (1992), hep-th/9112038 .
42. Quantum Hair On Black Holes (with S. Coleman and F. Wilczek), Nucl. Phys. B378, 175-246 (1992), hep-th/9201059 .
43. Semilocal Defects, Phys. Rev. D 46, 4218-4231 (1992), hep-ph/9206216 .
44. Quantum Hair and Quantum Gravity (with S. Coleman, L.M. Krauss and F. Wilczek), Gen. Rel. Grav. 24, 9-16 (1992).
45. Decay of Metastable Topological Defects (with A. Vilenkin), Phys. Rev. D 47, 2324-2342 (1993), hep-ph/9209210 .
46. Do Black Holes Destroy Information? in Black holes, Membranes, Wormholes and Superstrings, ed. S. Kalara and D. V. Nanopoulos, Singapore (World Scientific, 1993) p. 22-39, hep-th/9209058 .
47. Nonabelian Vortices and Nonabelian Statistics (with Hoi-Kwong Lo), Phys. Rev. D 48, 4821-4834 (1993), hep-th/9306006 .
48. Complementarity in Wormhole Chromodynamics (with Hoi-Kwong Lo and Kai-Ming Lee), Phys. Lett. B318, 287-292 (1993), hep-th/9308044 .
49. Black Hole, in McGraw-Hill Yearbook of
Science and Technology, ed. S. P. Parker,
50. Black Hole Thermodynamics and Information Loss in Two-Dimensions (with T.M. Fiola, A. Strominger and S.P. Trivedi), Phys. Rev. D 50, 3987-4014 (1994), hep-th/9403137 .
51. Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (book review), Engineering and Science LVII, No. 4, 39-41 (1996).
52. Charge, in Macmillan Encyclopedia of
Physics, ed. J. S. Rigden,
53. The Nature of Space and Time (book review), Phys. Today 49, No. 7, 60-61 (1996).
54. Cosmic Strings and Other Topological Defects (book review), Science 272, 966-967 (1996).
55. Foreword
(with K. S. Thorne), in The Feynman Lectures on Gravitation, ed. B. Hatfield,
56. Efficient Networks for Quantum Factoring
(with D. Beckman, A.N. Chari and S. Devabhaktuni),
Phys. Rev. A 54, 1034-1063 (1996), quant-ph/9602016 .
57. Reliable Quantum Computers, Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. A454, 385-410 (1998), quant-ph/9705031 .
58. Quantum Computing: Pro and Con, Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. A454, 469-486 (1998), quant-ph/9705032 .
59. Fault Tolerant Quantum Computation, in Introduction to Quantum Computation, ed. H.K. Lo, S. Popescu and T.P. Spiller (World Scientific, 1998), quant-ph/9712048 .
60. Robust Solutions to Hard Problems , Nature 391, 631-632 (1998).
61. Making Weirdness Work: Quantum Information and Computation , in Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE Aerospace Conference, ed. R. A. Profet (IEEE, 1998).
62. Topological Quantum Computation (with R. W. Ogburn), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1509: 341-356 (1999).
63. Unstable Door to the Future of Computing (book review) Nature 398, 118-119 (1999).
64. Battling Decoherence: The Fault-tolerant Quantum Computer, Phys. Today 52, No. 6, 24-30 (1999)
65. Plug-in Quantum Software , Nature 402, 357-358 (1999).
66. Quantum Information and Precision Measurement (with A. M. Childs and J. Renes), J. Mod. Opt. 47,155-176 (2000), quant-ph/9904021 .
67. Quantum Information and Physics: Some Future Directions, J. Mod. Opt. 47, 127-137 (2000), quant-ph/9904022 .
68. Simple Proof of Security of the BB84 Quantum Key Distribution Protocol (with P. W. Shor), Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 441-444 (2000), quant-ph/0003004 .
69. Encoding a Qubit in an Oscillator (with D. Gottesman and A. Kitaev), Phys. Rev. A 64, 012310 (2001), quant-ph/0008040 .
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71. Quantum Clock Synchronization and Quantum Error Correction, quant-ph/0010098 .
72. Causal and Localizable Quantum Operations (with D. Beckman, D. Gottesman, and M. A. Nielsen), Phys. Rev. A 64, 052309 (2001), quant-ph/0102043 .
73. Achievable Rates for the Gaussian Quantum Channel (with J. Harrington), Phys. Rev. A 64, 062301 (2001), quant-ph/0105058 .
74. Robustness of Adiabatic Quantum Computation
(with A. M. Childs and
75. Measurability of Wilson Loop Operators (with D. Beckman, D. Gottesman, and A. Kitaev), Phys. Rev. D 65, 065022 (2002), hep-th/0110205 .
76. Topological Quantum Memory (with E. Dennis, A. Kitaev, and A. Landahl), J. Math. Phys. 43, 4452-4505 (2002), quant-ph/0110143 .
77. Confinement-Higgs transition in a disordered gauge theory and the accuracy threshold for quantum memory (with C. Wang and J. Harrington), Ann. Phys. 303, 31-58 (2003), quant-ph/0207088 .
78. Secure quantum key distribution with an uncharacterized source (with M. Koashi), Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 057902 (2003), quant-ph/0208155 .
79. Security of quantum key
distribution with imperfect devices (with D. Gottesman,
H.-K. Lo, and
80. Superselection
rules and quantum protocols (with A. Kitaev and D. Mayers), Phys. Rev. A 69, 052326
(2004), quant-ph/0310088.
81. Comment on “The black hole final
state” (with D. Gottesman), J. High Energy
Phys. 0403, 026 (2004), hep-th/0311269.
82. Phase randomization improves the security of quantum key distribution (with H.-K. Lo), quant-ph/0504209.
83. Quantum accuracy threshold for
concatenated distance-3 codes (with P. Aliferis and
D. Gottesman), Quant. Inf. Comp. 6, 097-165 (2006), quant-ph/0504218.
84. Topological entanglement entropy (with
A. Kitaev), Phys. Rev. Lett.
96, 110404 (2006), hep-th/0510092.
85. Fault-tolerant quantum computation with long-range correlated noise (with D. Aharonov and A. Kitaev), Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 050504 (2006), quant-ph/0510231.
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