Peter Zoller

Peter Zoller ( born September 16, 1952 in Innsbruck) is a theoretical physicist from Austria. He deals with quantum optics and quantum information and is renowned for his pioneering work on quantum computers as well as to cross-connections of quantum optics and solid state physics.

Life

Peter Zoller graduated from the University of Innsbruck physics, was there a doctorate in February 1977 and then worked as an assistant at the Institute for Theoretical Physics. 1978/79 he worked as a research fellow at the Max Kade Peter Lambropoulos at the University of Southern California, and in 1980 he spent a research stay in the group of Dan Walls in Auckland, New Zealand. In 1981, Peter Zoller habilitated with a work "On the light statistical dependence of resonant multiphoton processes " at the University of Innsbruck. 1981/82 and 1988 he was for one year Visiting Fellow at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics ( JILA ), University of Colorado, Boulder. In 1986 he was a visiting professor at the Université de Paris -Sud 11, Orsay.

1991 Peter Zoller was appointed Professor of Physics and JILA Fellow at JILA and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder appointed. The end of 1994 he accepted an appointment at the University of Innsbruck, where he has since been working. From 1995 to 1999 he headed the Institute for Theoretical Physics, 2001 to 2004 he was deputy dean of the faculty.

The JILA Peter Zoller is ongoing ties to Adjoint Fellow. Many guest professorships have taken him to all the major centers of physics in the world. He also served as Loeb Lecturer at Harvard, Boston, MA (2004), Yan Jici Chair professor at the University of Science and Technology of China, Heifei, Chair Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing (2004), owner of the Lorentz professorship at the University of Leiden (2005) and Distinguished Lecturer at the Technion in Haifa ( 2007). In 2008 and 2010 he was Distinguished Scholar at Caltech Moore, 2010, Arnold Sommerfeld Lecturer at the University of Munich. 2012/13 he was a "Distinguished Fellow" at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching.

Since 2003, Peter Zoller Scientific Director at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information 's (IQOQI ) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Peter Zoller is married and father of three children.

Work

Peter Zoller has written substantial work on the interaction of laser light and atoms as a theorist. In addition to fundamental developments in quantum optics in particular, the bridge to quantum information and condensed matter physics it is managed. A 1995 proposed by him and Ignacio Cirac model of a quantum computer based on the interaction of lasers with a cold and stored in an electromagnetic trap ions. In Broad this idea was implemented experimentally in recent years, and it is one of the most promising concepts on the way to a scalable quantum computer. The cross- connection of quantum physics to solid state physics has taken with his fellow researchers Zoller. So he has about made ​​the proposal to build a quantum simulator with cold atoms and thus, for example, to explore the unexplained phenomena today in high-temperature superconductors. Zoller's ideas and concepts found wide attention in the scientific community, his research is frequently cited.

Awards

For his achievements in the field of quantum optics and quantum information and in particular for his pioneering work in quantum computers and quantum communication, he was awarded a number of prizes. Among the Wolf Prize for Physics (2013 ) are, together with his Spanish colleague Ignacio Cirac, the Blaise Pascal Medal in Physics ( 2011), Hamburger Award in Theoretical Physics ( 2011), the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics (2010), the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award ( 2009) Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, one of highest endowed research prizes, which he received with Ignacio Cirac, the Dirac Medal ( ICTP ) (2006 ), the 6th International Quantum Communication Award ( 2006), the Niels Bohr Gold Medal (2005 ) of UNESCO, the Max Planck Medal ( 2005) of the German Physical Society, the Humboldt research Award (2000), the Erwin Schrödinger Prize (1998) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Max Born Award (1998 ) of the Optical Society of America, and the Wittgenstein Prize (1998 ), the highest Austrian science award.

2012 Peter Zoller received an honorary doctorate from the University of Amsterdam. In 2013 he became a member of the Academia Europaea, 2012, the European Academy of Sciences, 2010, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, 2009, the Spanish Academy of Sciences, 2008 National Academy of Sciences, USA, and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Since 2001 he is member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

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