Carlton M. Caves

Carlton Morris Caves ( born October 24, 1950 in Muskogee, Oklahoma) is an American physicist.

Caves studied physics and mathematics at Rice University with a bachelor's degree in 1972 and in 1979 when Kip Thorne at Caltech ( where he 1976/77 Feynman Fellow ) PhD ( Theoretical Investigations in experimental gravitation). He then researched further at Caltech, from 1982 as a Senior Research Fellow. In 1988 he became associate professor at the University of Southern California and in 1992 professor of physics and astronomy at the University of New Mexico. There he is Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Quantum Information and Control.

It deals with theoretical quantum optics, quantum information theory, quantum computers, theory of (laser) experiments on gravitation, quantum- mechanical limits of high precision experiments, quantum noise theory of open quantum systems and decoherence, nonlinear dynamics and quantum chaos.

In 1981 he introduced the concept squashed light ( squeezed light) in order to increase the sensitivity of laser interferometers for gravitational wave experiments.

In 2002 he developed with colleagues based on a Bayesian probabilistic approach and interpretation of quantum mechanics ( see interpretations of quantum mechanics).

2011 Caves received the Max Born Award. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America, and in 1990 he received the Einstein Prize for Laser Science, Society for Optical and Quantum Electronics.

He has been married since 1984 and has two children.