P. Important Researchers and Research Groups

Orientation, not a leaderboard — the names attached to the ideas this book cited, so literature search has handles. Theory/algorithms: Peter Shor (factoring, codes), Lov Grover (search), Umesh Vazirani (complexity; BV, Simon lineage), Scott Aaronson (complexity, dequantization-era criticism, complexity zoo), Dorit Aharonov (fault tolerance, verification), Emanuel Knill (conditions, bounds, Gottesman–Knill), Daniel Gottesman (stabilizer formalism), Peter Zoller & Ignacio Cirac (theoretical foundations of trapped-ion and repeater physics), John Preskill (NISQ, QEC theory, the field's great communicator), Ronald de Wolf (quantum querying/learning theory). QEC/decoding: Austin Fowler (surface code engineering), David Poulin, Barbara Terhal (thresholds, bosonic codes), Earl Campbell (qLDPC decoding). Experimental: John Martinis (superconducting lineage), John Clarke, Michelle Simmons (silicon), Christopher Monroe & Rainer Blatt (trapped ions), Mikhail Lukin & Markus Greiner (neutral atoms), Anton Zeilinger & Alain Aspect & John Clauser (Bell tests, Nobel 2022). Groups: Google Quantum AI, IBM Quantum, NIST Boulder, QuTech (Delft), IQOQI (Innsbruck), MIT/Harvard quantum centers, Oxford/Cambridge groups, Weizmann, IHEP-adjacent (USTC Hefei — China's hub). Ch. 62.7's method applies to all of them: read three papers, write one good email.