Howard Carmichael

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Howard Carmichael, 2018

Howard John Carmichael (born January 17, 1950 in Manchester ) is a New Zealand physicist who works in quantum optics . He is a professor at the University of Auckland .

Carmichael graduated from Auckland University with a bachelor's degree in 1971 and a master's degree in 1973. In 1977 he received his PhD from the University of Waikato . As a post-doctoral student he was at City College of the City University of New York (CUNY), the University of Texas at Austin (1979 to 1981) and the University of Waikato. In 1983 he became Assistant Professor and later Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas , was a visiting scientist at the Royal Signal and Radar Establishment in Malvern in 1984, visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin in 1988 and at Caltech in 1989 and associate professor from 1989 and professor from 1991 from the University of Oregon . Today he is Dan Walls Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Auckland.

He deals with quantum optics, for example anti-bunching of photons and squeezed light , cavity quantum electrodynamics and quantum theory of nonlinear optical systems. In addition, he deals in general with open quantum systems and stochastic quantum processes, such as the formalism for open systems of quantum optics called Quantum Trajectory Theory . These are modeled like a scattering process, with classic external fields corresponding to the input and classic stochastic processes corresponding to the output (the fields after the measurement process).

He also deals with quantum information theory (understanding quantum entanglement ).

In 2003 he received the Max Born Award . He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand .

Fonts

  • Statistical methods in quantum optics , 2 volumes, Springer Verlag
    • Volume 1 Master equations and Fokker-Planck equations , 2002 (first 1999)
    • Volume 2 Nonclassical fields , 2008
  • Quantum Jump Experiments , in D. Greenberger, K. Hentschel, F. Weinert Compendium of Quantum Physics , Springer 2009, p. 595
  • Quantum fluctuations of light: a modern perspective on wave / particle duality , in J. Evans. AS Thorndyke Quantum mechanics at the crossroads , Springer 2006, pp. 183-212
  • An open systems approach to quantum optics , Lecture Notes in Physics, Springer 1993 (lectures at the Free University of Brussels 1991)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Carmichael, Howard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carmichael, Howard John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester