Jonathan Dowling

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Jonathan Dowling

Jonathan P. Dowling (born April 3, 1955 in Smithtown , New York - † June 5, 2020 ) was an American physicist who studied quantum optics and quantum information theory .

Career

Dowling graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's degree in physics in 1977 and from the University of Colorado at Boulder , where he earned his master's degree in mathematics in 1981 and in physics in 1984 and in 1988 with Asim Orhan Barut in theoretical physics . As a post-doctoral student he was at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in 1989/90 with Herbert Walther and Marlan Scully . He then did research in the quantum optics group of the United States Army Aviation and Mission Command (AMCOM) at the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville with Charles M. Bowden. From 1998 he was in the quantum computer group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory , where he became senior scientist and group supervisor. From 2004 he was Horace C. Hearne Jr. Professor of Theoretical Physics at Louisiana State University and Co-Director of the Hearne Institute of Theoretical Physics.

1986/87 he was a visiting scientist at the International Center of Theoretical Physics in Trieste

In the 1990s, Dowling dealt with the theory of spontaneous emission in photonic crystals and photonic crystals with band gaps (analogous to semiconductors in electronics). He is known for the development of quantum mechanical technologies ( quantum imaging , quantum sensing , quantum metrology ). In 2002 he proposed a method for the realization of entangled quantum mechanical many -body states , so-called Noon states . In 2000 he founded quantum lithography and was thus one of the pioneers in the field of quantum imaging , in which quantum mechanical properties such as quantum entanglement are used to improve the resolution compared to the classic case (in this case in photolithography ).

In 2002 he received the Willis E. Lamb Prize for pioneering work in quantum electronics and specifically the study of the spatial coherence of entangled multiphoton states . He was a fellow of the American Physical Society , the Optical Society of America , the Institute of Physics, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

He held seven US patents (2011). In addition to being a US citizen, he was also an Irish citizen.

Fonts

  • Quantum Optical Metrology - The Lowdown On High-N00N States, Contemporary Physics, Volume 49, 2008, pp. 125-143
  • Editor Electron theory and Quantum Electrodynamics - 100 years later , Plenum Press 1997 (Proc. NATO Advanced Summer Institute in Edirne, September 1994), therein from Dowling The Classical Lamb Shift: Why Jackson is Wrong!
  • with Gerald J. Milburn Quantum Technology: The Second Quantum Revolution , Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A, Volume 361, 2003, pp. 1655-1674

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pieter Kok, Lee, Dowling Phys. Rev. A 65, 2002, 052104
  2. ↑ Agedi N. Boto, Pieter Kok, Daniel S. Abrams, Samuel L. Braunstein, Colin P. Williams, Jonathan P. Dowling Quantum Interferometric Optical Lithography: Exploiting Entanglement to Beat the Diffraction Limit , Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 85, 2000, p. 2733, abstract
  3. ↑ also in: Foundations of Physics 28, 1988, 855-862
personal data
SURNAME Dowling, Jonathan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dowling, Jonathan P.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Smithtown , New York
DATE OF DEATH 5th June 2020