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I am a theoretical computer physicist. I write software by day, and work on quantum computing and quantum foundations by night. I live in Melbourne, Australia.

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My email address is bentoner [^at^] bentoner [^dot^] com.


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Publications

  1. Robert W. Spekkens, D. H. Buzacott, A. J. Keehn, Ben Toner, G. J. Pryde, Experimental demonstration of preparation contextuality and parity-oblivious multiplexing, quant-ph/0805.1463 (2008).
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  2. Debbie Leung, Ben Toner, and John Watrous, Coherent state exchange in multi-prover quantum interactive proof systems, quant-ph/0804.4118 (2008).
    [PDF] [PS]

  3. Andrew C. Doherty, Yeong-Cherng Liang, Ben Toner, and Stephanie Wehner, The quantum moment problem and bounds on entangled multiprover games, to appear in Proceedings of 23rd IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC 2008).

  4. Howard Barnum, Oscar Dahlsten, Matthew Leifer, and Ben Toner, Nonclassicality without entanglement enables bit commitment, to appear in Proceedings of 2008 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW 2008), quant-ph/0803.1264.
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  5. Matthias Christandl and Ben Toner, Finite de Finetti theorem for conditional probability distributions describing physical theories, quant-ph/0712.0916 (2007).
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  6. Julia Kempe, Oded Regev, and Ben Toner, The Unique Games Conjecture with Entangled Provers is False, to appear in Proceedings of 49th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2008) quant-ph/0710.0655 (2007).
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  7. Oded Regev and Ben Toner, Simulating Quantum Correlations with Finite Communication, Proceedings of 48th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2007), quant-ph/0708.0827.
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  8. Julia Kempe, Hirotada Kobayashi, Keiji Matsumoto, Ben Toner, and Thomas Vidick, Entangled games are hard to approximate, to appear in Proceedings of 49th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2008) quant-ph/0704.2903 (2007).
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  9. B. F. Toner and F. Verstraete, Monogamy of Bell correlations and Tsirelson's bound, quant-ph/0611001 (2006).
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  10. A. Acin, N. Gisin, and B. Toner, Grothendieck's constant and local models for noisy entangled quantum states, Phys. Rev. A 73, 062105 (2006).
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  11. B. F. Toner, Monogamy of nonlocal quantum correlations, to appear in Proc. R. Soc. A, quant-ph/0601172 (2008).
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  12. R. Cleve, P. Høyer, B. Toner, and J. Watrous, Consequences and Limits of Nonlocal Strategies, Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Annual Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC 2004), pp. 236- 249 (2004).
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  13. B. F. Toner and D. Bacon, The Communication Cost of Simulating Bell Correlations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 187904 (2003).
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  14. D. Bacon and B. F. Toner, Bell Inequalities with Auxiliary Communication, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 157904 (2003).
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  15. A. Davidson, B. F. Toner, R. R. Volkas, and K. C. Wali, Clash of symmetries on the brane, Phys. Rev. D 65, 125013 (2002).
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Authors are ordered alphabetically, except for 2, 3, and 15.

Erdös number: 3.

Selected Presentations

  • Unique games with entangled provers are easy
    Workshop on Quantum Algorithms and Complexity Theory, Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, 20 November, 2008.
    [ Slides: PPT ] [ Slides: Slideshare]
  • Simulating Quantum Correlations with Finite Communication
    Workshop on Quantum Information Processing (QIP 2008), New Delhi, 21 December, 2007.
    [ Slides: PPT ]
  • Finite de Finetti theorem for conditional probability distributions
    Workshop on Quantum Information Processing (QIP 2008), New Delhi, 21 December, 2007.
    (Talk prepared and given by Matthias Christandl.)
    [ Slides: PPT ]
  • Symmetry and global independence in classical and quantum theories
    Perimeter Institute Quantum Discussions, Waterloo, 7 November, 2007.
    [ Streaming video: Windows Media ]

© 2008 Ben Toner, bentoner[^at^]bentoner[^dot^]com.