H. Jeff Kimble

H. Jeffrey Kimble ( born April 23, 1949 in Floydada, Texas), H. Jeff Kimble short, is an American physicist.

Kimble research in the field of quantum optics, quantum information, cavity quantum electrodynamics and quantum dynamics of open systems, including quantum mechanical measurement. Shortly after the first photon teleportation by Anton Zeilinger demonstrated 1998 led by Kimble research cooperation, the quantum teleportation of quantum states.

Life

Kimble graduated from the B. S. in Physics in 1971 with summa cum laude from Abilene Christian University. He continued his study of physics at the University of Rochester, where he made ​​1973 the master and received his doctorate in 1978 with Leonard Mandel. With almond and M. Dagenais, he demonstrated in 1977 Photon antibunching. From 1977 to 1979 he worked as an Associate Senior Research Physicist in the General Motors Research Laboratories. Subsequently, he was first Assistant (1979-1985), then associate (1985-1988) and finally Full Professor (1988-1989) of physics at the University of Texas at Austin. Since 1989 he is William L. Valentine Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology.

In the eulogy for the Herbert Walther price a variety of pioneering achievements both on experimental and the theoretical field were highlighted. In addition to contributions to quantum teleportation and photon antibunching among others, the demonstration of a quantum phase gate in quantum logic, the first single-atom lasers, single-photon sources based on single atoms in resonators, quantum entanglement between atomic ensembles. He also made significant contributions to squeezed light, pioneering work in the cavity Quantenlelektrodynamik, the EPR experiment, the exchange of quantum states between light and matter, quantum repeaters and in opto - nano- mechanics.

Since 1989, Jeff Kimble has a professorship at the California Institute of Technology. In addition to his research activities, he has characterized as an academic teacher a whole generation of students.

Awards

Kimble is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, member of the National Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America.

Writings

  • Squeezed states of light: an (incomplete ) survey of experimental progress and prospects, Physics Reports, Volume 219, 1992, pp. 227-234 ( Proc. 20th Solvay Conference on Quantum Optics )

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