Martin Plenio

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Martin Bodo Plenio (* 1968 in Kassel ) is a German theoretical physicist and university professor . He works in the fields of quantum informatics and quantum optics .

Life

Plenio studied at the University of Göttingen , where he received his doctorate in theoretical physics in 1994. He then went to Imperial College as a post-doctoral student on a Fedor-Lynen fellowship with Peter L. Knight . In 1998 he became a lecturer and professor for quantum physics in 2003 and, from 2005, head of the quantum informatics program at Imperial College. In 2008 he received an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship , which he took up in 2009 at the University of Ulm as head of the Institute for Theoretical Physics there and the planned Center for Quantum Engineering.

Plenio describes his research field as controlled quantum dynamics , the manipulation, preparation and measurement of atoms and photons at the quantum level with applications, for example, for the technology of quantum computers. As a theorist, he works closely with experimental physicists.

In particular, he dealt with the theory of quantum entanglement (quantum correlations). He was involved in the development of a new quantitative approach to the theory of entanglement and various degrees of entanglement. In 1999 he introduced entanglement catalysis with Daniel Jonathan.

In 2007, together with Michael Hartmann, he proposed a possible mechanism for a Mott isolator for photons, in which photons in cavities that are provided with foreign atoms that are excited in a certain way repel one another, similar to fermions in the same quantum state. While the Coulomb repulsion of electrons causes the phenomenon of Mott insulators in the case of solids, it is here the interaction of the photons with the foreign atoms in the cavities.

Plenio investigates possible quantum effects in biological systems such as photosynthesis or the magnetic field navigation of birds. In the case of very efficient energy transfer during photosynthesis, for example, he is investigating the extent to which noise optimizes quantum transport.

In 2005 he received the Wolfson Merit Award from the Royal Society and in 2004 the Maxwell Medal from the Institute of Physics , of which he has been a Fellow since 2004. For 2012 he received the Max Born Prize . In 2008 he gave the Royal Society's Clifford Paterson Lecture. In 2003/04 he was a Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow.

He is the editorial board of Proceedings of the Royal Society A , the New Journal of Physics and Physical Review A .

He is married to the physics professor Susana Huelga.

Fonts

  • MB Plenio, PL Knight: The Quantum Jump Approach to Dissipative Dynamics in Quantum Optics . In: Reviews of Modern Physics , Volume 70, 1998, pp. 101-144, arxiv : quant-ph / 9702007

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Plenio, Virmani An introduction to entanglement measures . In: Quant. Inf. Comput. , Volume 7, 2007, pp. 1-51, arxiv : quant-ph / 0504163 . J. Eisert, M. Cramer, Plenio: Area laws for the entanglement entropy- a review . In: Reviews of Modern Physics , Volume 82, 2010, p. 277, arxiv : 0808.3773 . Brandao, Plenio: Entanglement and the second law of thermodynamics . In: Nature Physics , Volume 4, 2008, p. 873, arxiv : 0810.2319 .
  2. ↑ Jonathan, Plenio: Entanglement assisted local manipulation of pure quantum states . In: Phys. Rev. Lett. , Volume 83, 1999, p. 3566, arxiv : quant-ph / 9905071 .
  3. ↑ Physical Review Focus: Lights impersonates electrons . on Plenio, Hartmann: Strong photon nonlinearities and photonic Mott insulators . In: Physical Review Letters , Volume 99, 2007, p. 103601, arxiv : 0704.2575 . Hartmann, Plenio: Frozen Light . In: Physik Journal , 2010, No. 4
  4. ↑ Martin Schäfer: The quantum architect . In: Badische Zeitung , May 30, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Plenio, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plenio, Martin Bodo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel