Rainer Blatt
Rainer Blatt ( born September 8, 1952 in Idar -Oberstein ) is a German - Austrian experimental physicist. He conducts research in the field of quantum optics and quantum information, and has performed with his team be the first one teleportation with atoms.
Life
Rainer Blatt studied Physics at Mainz University and graduated in 1979 with a diploma. In 1981 he received his doctorate and was a research assistant with Günter Werth. 1982 went leaf with a research grant from the German Research Foundation ( DFG) for a year at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics ( JILA ), Boulder to John L. Hall (Nobel Prize 2005). In 1983 he moved to the Free University of Berlin and a year later the group of Peter E. Toschek at the University of Hamburg. After another stay in the U.S., Rainer Blatt 1988 Habilitation in experimental physics. From 1989 to 1994 he worked as a research Heisenberg Fellow at the University of Hamburg and spent in this period, several research stays at JILA in Boulder. In 1994 he was appointed professor of physics at the University of Göttingen. A year later, the call came to the chair of experimental physics at the University of Innsbruck. Journal ran from 2000 to 2013, the Institute of Experimental Physics and is a member of the Academic Senate. Since 2003 he is also Scientific Director at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information ( IQOQI ) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (AAS ). Rainer Blatt is married and has three children and lives in Inzing.
Work
The experimental physicist Rainer Blatt has performed pioneering experiments in the field of precision spectroscopy, quantum metrology and quantum information processing. He operates with data stored in the ion trap atoms, which are manipulated by means of laser beams. Were the basis for this work proposals theoretical physicists Ignacio Cirac and Peter Zoller mid -1990s. In the structure proposed by them, it is sheet working group in 2004 for the first time succeeded in transferring the quantum information of an atom in a fully controlled manner to another atom ( teleportation ). The science journal Nature reported on and dedicated to the successful experiment, a title page. While only three particles were arranged in an ion trap for this experiment, managed by the group of Rainer Blatt two years later, up to eight atoms in a controlled to entangle with each other. The creation of the first " quantum bytes" (1 Qubyte consists of 8 qubits ) is a further step on the way to quantum computers. Sheet is also a successful promoter of young scientists. Six of his assistants ( Christoph Becher, Jürgen Eschnerberg, Hartmut Haeffner, Dietrich Leibfried, Piet O. Schmidt, Ferdinand Schmidt- Kaler ) have now been appointed to professorships abroad.
Awards
Rainer Blatt received in 2013 the decoration of the Tyrol, and a Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, in 2012, he was the Stern-Gerlach Medal for work in quantum computer research, among other things, for the creation of a quantum byte and the transfer of quantum information awarded. In 2011 he was awarded the Science Prize for outstanding research achievements of the Foundation Cassa di Risparmio. Together with Ignacio Cirac, he was awarded the 2009 Carl Zeiss Research Award. 2008 sheet received from the European Research Council a " ERC Advanced Grant" and was honored with the Cardinal Innitzer price. Together with its European partners, he was nominated by the European Commission for the Descartes Prize in 2007. In 2006 he received the Erwin Schrödinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 1997 he was awarded for new ideas to quantum information processing with the Innovation Award of the Tiroler Sparkasse.
Rainer Blatt is member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and since 2010 a member of the Austrian Science Council since 2008.