(updated November 4, 2009)

Kevin Ann

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Office Phone: (617) 353-6043
Office: Physics Resource Building - Room 368
Boston University Physics Department
590 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA 02215


Hi! I'm a graduate student doing research with Professor Gregg Jaeger.

My research interests include:
quantum information, quantum computation, and foundations of quantum mechanics.

Please find below a list of my publications in these areas.



  1. "Finite-time destruction of entanglement and non-locality by environmental influences"
    Kevin Ann and Gregg Jaeger
    Foundations of Physics 39, 790 (2009)
    arXiv:0903.0009v1


  2. "Nonlocality sudden death in tripartite systems"
    Gregg Jaeger and Kevin Ann
    AIP Conference Proceedings 1101, 78 (2009), Foundations of Probability and Physics - 5


  3. "Generic tripartite Bell nonlocality sudden death under local dephasing noise"
    Kevin Ann and Gregg Jaeger
    Physics Letters A 372, 6853 (2008)
    arXiv:0810.0235v2


  4. "Local basis-dependent noise-induced Bell-nonlocality sudden death in tripartite systems"
    Gregg Jaeger and Kevin Ann
    Physics Letters A 372, 2212 (2008)
    arXiv:0801.0230v1


  5. "Decoherence, disentanglement and foundations of quantum mechanics"
    Gregg Jaeger and Kevin Ann
    AIP Conference Proceedings 962, 108 (2007), Quantum theory: Reconsideration of Foundations - 4


  6. "Local-dephasing-induced entanglement sudden death in two-component finite-dimensional systems"
    Kevin Ann and Gregg Jaeger
    Physical Review A 76, 044101 (2007)
    arXiv:0709.3233v1


  7. "Disentanglement and decoherence in a pair of qutrits under dephasing noise"
    Gregg Jaeger and Kevin Ann
    Journal of Modern Optics 54, 16, 2327 (2007)
    arXiv:0709.2703v2


  8. "Entanglement sudden death in qubit-qutrit systems"
    Kevin Ann and Gregg Jaeger
    Physics Letters A 372, 579 (2008)
    arXiv:0707.4485v1


  9. "Disentanglement and decoherence in two-spin and three-spin systems under dephasing"
    Kevin Ann and Gregg Jaeger
    Physical Review B 75, 115307 (2007)
    arXiv:quant-ph/0703216v1