Alexei Kitaev

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Alexei Yurievich Kitaev (Russian: Алексей Юрьевич Китаев; born August 26, 1963) is a Russian American theoretical physicist.

He is currently a professor of theoretical physics and mathematics at the California Institute of Technology and a permanent member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics.^[1]

Kitaev has received awards for his contributions to the fields of quantum mechanics, more specifically quantum computing.