David G. Cory is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Waterloo[1] where he holds the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Quantum Information Processing.
Cory was educated at Case Western Reserve University, earning a bachelor's degree there in 1981 and a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1987.
[5][6][7] Together with Amr Fahmy and Timothy Havel he developed the concept of pseudo-pure states and performed the first experimental demonstrations of NMR quantum computing.
In 2015, he and teams from University of Waterloo, National Institute of Standards and Technology and Boston University demonstrated the generation and control of orbital angular momentum of neutron beams using a fork-dislocation grating,[10] extending the existing work in optical and electron beams to neutrons.
They subsequently demonstrated the control of both the spin and orbital angular momentum degrees of freedom of neutron beams.