John Klauder

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John Klauder

John R. Klauder (born January 24, 1932 in Reading , Pennsylvania ) is an American theoretical physicist .

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Klauder studied at Berkeley University , the Stevens Institute of Technology and Princeton University , where he received his master's degree in 1957 and his doctorate in 1959 under John Archibald Wheeler . From 1953 to 1988 he was a member of Bell Labs in Murray Hill , New Jersey, where he was head of the department for theoretical physics and the solid-state spectroscopy laboratory from the 1960s. Klauder was visiting professor at Syracuse University (1967/68), Rutgers University (1965), University of Texas (1982), Bryn Mawr College , Gakushuin University in Tokyo , Oslo , IHES , and Paris University from the University of Bern (1961/62, 1980, 1996). Since 1988 he has been Professor of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Florida at Gainesville . In 1986 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Klauder's best-known works are the introduction of continuous representations in quantum mechanics (Journal of Mathematical Physics 1963-1965) and in 1960 and 1963 the coherent states z. B. in quantum optics. That happened before and independently of Roy Glauber , who gave them their name. He also deals with alternative quantization methods, in particular path integrals , and quantization of gravity.

Klauder was editor of the Journal of Mathematical Physics and president of the International Association of Mathematical Physics. In 2006 he received the Lars Onsager Medal in Oslo.

Heinrich Leutwyler is one of his students.

literature

  • John R. Klauder and ECG Sudarshan : Fundamentals of Quantum Optics . 1968, Dover 2006, ISBN 0-486-45008-2
  • John R. Klauder and BS Skagerstam: Coherent States - applications in physics and mathematical physics . World Scientific 1985
  • John R. Klauder: Beyond conventional quantization . Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-521-25884-7
  • Emch u. a. (Ed.): On Klauder's Path - a field trip - Essays in Honor of John R. Klauder . World Scientific, 1994

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personal data
SURNAME Klauder, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klauder, John R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Reading , Pennsylvania