H. Jeff Kimble

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

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

Life

Kimble completed a BS in Physics in 1971 with summa cum laude at Abilene Christian University . He continued his physics studies at the University of Rochester , where he received his master's degree in 1973 and his doctorate in 1978 with Leonard Mandel . In 1977 he demonstrated photon antibunching with Mandel and M. Dagenais . From 1977 to 1979 he worked as an Associate Senior Research Physicist at General Motors Research Laboratories . He then 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 has been the William L. Valentine Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology .

In the laudation for the Herbert Walther Prize, a large number of pioneering achievements in both experimental and theoretical fields were highlighted. In addition to contributions to quantum teleportation and photon anti-bunching, the demonstration of a quantum phase gate in quantum logic, the first single-atom laser, single-photon sources based on individual atoms in resonators, and quantum entanglement between atomic ensembles. He also made significant contributions to squeezed light , pioneering work in cavity quantum electrodynamics, the EPR experiment , the exchange of quantum states between light and matter, quantum repeaters and in opto-nanomechanics.

Jeff Kimble has held a chair at the California Institute of Technology since 1989. In addition to his research activities, as an academic teacher, he shaped an entire generation of schoolchildren.

Awards

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

Fonts

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

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ Presentation of Kimbles at MIT for guest lecture (English)
  2. ↑ Telepolis, June 17, 2004: "Breakthrough in Quantum Physics"
  3. ^ A. Furusawa, JL Sørensen, SL Braunstein, CA Fuchs, HJ Kimble, ES Polzik Unconditional Quantum Teleportation , Science, Volume 282, 1998, pp. 706-709, abstract
  4. ↑ Kimble, Dagenais, Mandel Photon antibunching in resonance fluorescence , Phys. Rev. Letters, Vol. 39, 1977, p. 691. Predicted in Kimble, Mandel Theory of Resonance fluorescence , Phys. Rev. A, Vol. 13, 1976, p. 2123.
  5. ↑ Herbert Walther Prize ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dpg-physik.de
personal data
SURNAME Kimble, H. Jeff
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kimble, H. Jeffrey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Floydada , Texas , USA