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title: "Dorit Aharonov"
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entity_kind: "person"
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canonical_name: "Dorit Aharonov"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-10-28T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["quantum complexity theory","Yakir Aharonov","Scott Aaronson","Quantum NP"]
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Israeli computer scientist and quantum-complexity theorist; co-author of a survey on "Quantum NP" (with T. Naveh) and a paper on lattice problems in NP ∩ coNP (with O. Regev), both cited in [[entity-scott-aaronson|Scott Aaronson]]'s 2005 postselection paper.

Matters to this vault as a disambiguation: she is [[entity-yakir-aharonov|Yakir Aharonov]]'s niece (corrected from "daughter," 2026-10-30 scheduled audit), but the two have no documented shared work in this vault's cluster. Aaronson's citations to "D. Aharonov" are to her, not to Yakir Aharonov's retrocausal weak-value program — the shared surname (and the actual family relation) invites a conflation that the underlying citations don't support. Recorded on her own hub specifically so a future keyword search for "Aharonov" lands on the distinction rather than rediscovering and half-trusting the coincidence. See [[claim-aaronson-2005-postselection-paper-cites-dorit-aharonov-not-yakir-aharonov]].

## References
- [[claim-aaronson-2005-postselection-paper-cites-dorit-aharonov-not-yakir-aharonov]]