Benjamin "Ben" Schumacher is an American theoretical physicist, working mostly in the field of quantum information theory.

Schumacher earned his bachelor's degree at Hendrix College, where he met his wife, mathematician Carol Schumacher. His Ph.D. is from the University of Texas at Austin, where his advisers were Richard Matzner and John Archibald Wheeler.

Influential research papers

See also

  • Classical capacity

References

  • Zeroth Order Approximation - Blog by Benjamin Schumacher
  • Benjamin Schumacher Homepage
  • Quantum Mechanics: The Physics of the Microscopic World
  • The Physics of Impossible Things, Speaker: Ben Schumacher, 03/12/2008, PIRSA - Perimeter Institute Recorded Seminar Archive