Nicolas Gisin

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Nicolas Gisin (2015)

Nicolas Gisin (* 1952 in Geneva , Switzerland ) is a Swiss physicist , professor at the University of Geneva . He is known for working on the fundamentals of quantum mechanics and quantum cryptography .

Life

Gisin studied physics and mathematics at the University of Geneva , where he obtained his physics diploma and received his doctorate in physics in 1981. For his dissertation he received a prize from the Fondation Louis de Broglie . As a post-doctoral student he was at the University of Rochester , New York , and then from 1984 worked in a start-up company in the field of fiber optics for telecommunications (Alphatronix). Four years later he worked for a Swiss software development company that manufactured image processing software. In 1988 he moved to the chair of “Optical Systems” at the University of Geneva, where he established research focuses in the field of optical sensors and quantum optics. In 2001 he founded with Hugo Zbinden and Grégoire Ribordy the company ID Quantique (IDQ), whose chairman he is currently (2018).

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He works both theoretically and experimentally.

Gisin developed a measurement method for polarization mode dispersion that is widely used today .

In 2003, MIT's Technology Review magazine counted his work on quantum cryptography among the 10 most promising inventions. He has been involved in experiments on quantum cryptography and quantum teleportation since the 1990s . In 2003 he demonstrated quantum teleportation in frequencies that are used in commercially available optical fibers over a distance of 2 km and in 2007 in commercial optical fiber networks (from Swisscom) over distances of 10 to 100 km. One problem with long-distance transmission is the need for repeaters. To this end, he and his group developed quantum memories in 2008 . In 2014 he showed quantum teleportation not only on photons, but also of photons on solid states over long distances (25 km).

In a work from 2006 he and colleagues showed that the information-theoretical security of protocols of quantum cryptography can be proven from observations alone, without recourse to quantum mechanics ( Bell's inequality also makes similar statements that are independent of the validity of quantum mechanics)

As part of the implementation of quantum teleportation and quantum cryptography in telecommunication networks, he also tested the quantum-mechanical non-locality (Einstein's spooky action at a distance ) in experiments of the type of violation of Bell-like inequalities over large distances.

In 2004 he and Sandu Popescu introduced the term quantum glove for the discussion of the intricacies of the distinction between information content and physical realization in quantum theory .

Honors

In 2009 he received the first John Stewart Bell Prize of the University of Toronto for the demonstration of entanglement and quantum teleportation over long distances and contributions to the theory of Bell inequalities , in 2014 the Marcel Benoist Prize and the International Quantum Communication Award . In 2017 he was awarded the Innovation Medal of the University of Geneva together with the other co-founders of ID Quantique.

Private

As a hobby he plays field hockey.

Fonts

  • The incomprehensible coincidence. Nonlocality, teleportation and other weirdnesses of quantum physics , Springer 2014, ISBN 978-3-662-43958-6 (French original, Odile Jacob, Paris 2012)
  • with I. Marcikic, Hugues de Riedmatten, Wolfgang Tittel, Hugo Zbinden Long distance quantum teleportation of qubits from photons at 1300 nm to photons at 1550 nm wavelength , Nature 421, 509-513 (2003), Arxiv
  • with H. de Riedmatten, I. Marcikic, W.Tittel, H.Zbinden, D.Collins Long distance quantum teleportation in a quantum relay configuration , Phys. Rev. Lett, Volume 92, 2004, p. 047904, arxiv
  • with C. Simon, H. de Riedmatten, M. Afzelius, N. Sangouard, H. Zbinden Quantum Repeaters with Photon Pair Sources and Multimode Memories , Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 98, 2007, pp. 190503, Arxiv
  • with C. Clausen, I.Usmani, F. Bussières, N.Sangouard, M.Afzelius, H. de Riedmatten Quantum storage of photonic entanglement in a crystal , Nature 469, 508 (2011)
  • with H. de Riedmatten, Mikael Afzelius, Matthias Staudt, Christoph Simon A solid-state light-matter interface at the single-photon level , Nature, Volume 456, 2008, pp. 773-777, Abstract , Arxiv
  • with Nicolas Cerf Le téléphone quantique à l'essai , La Recherche , May 2005, no.386
  • with Nicolas Cerf On a téléporté des atomes , La Recherche , May 2005, no. 386;
  • with Grégoire Ribordy, W. Tittel, H. Zbinden Quantum Cryptography , Rev. Mod. Phys., Volume 145, 2002, Arxiv
  • with Nicolas Sangouard, Christoph Simon, Hugues de Riedmatten Quantum repeaters based on atomic ensembles and linear optics , Rev. Mod.Phys., Volume 83, 2011, p. 33, Arxiv
  • Quantum nonlocality: How does Nature perform the trick? , Science, Volume 326, 2009, p. 1357, Arxiv
  • with Rob Thew Quantum Communication , Nature Photonics, 1, 2007, 165–171, Arxiv

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Physique Quantique: Remise du prix Marcel Benoist au Prof. Nicolas Gisin. November 14, 2014, accessed October 17, 2018 (French).
  2. ↑ a b ID quantique receives the medal for innovation. unige.ch, October 13, 2017, accessed on October 17, 2018 (English).
  3. ↑ Management team. ID Quantique, accessed October 17, 2018 .
  4. ↑ 10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change the World. In: MIT Technology Review. February 1, 2003, accessed October 17, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Olivier Landry, JAW van Houwelingen, Alexios Beveratos, Hugo Zbinden, Nicolas Gisin: Quantum teleportation over the Swisscom telecommunication network . In: J. Optical Society of America B . tape 24 , no. 2 , 2007, p. 398 , doi : 10.1364 / JOSAB.24.000398 , arxiv : quant-ph / 0605010 .
  6. ↑ N. Gisin: teleportation Quantique (slides). (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: unige.ch. 2003, archived from the original on November 14, 2012 (French).;
  7. ↑ Interview with Nicolas Gisin on research results in the field of quantum memory , Deutschlandfunk , December 11, 2008, 4:50 p.m.
  8. ↑ Félix Bussières, Christoph Clausen, Alexey Tiranov, Boris Korzh, Varun B. Verma, Sae Woo Nam, Francesco Marsili, Alban Ferrier, Philippe Goldner, Harald Herrmann, Christine Silberhorn, Wolfgang Sohler, Mikael Afzelius: Quantum teleportation from a telecom-wavelength photon to a solid-state quantum memory . In: Nature Photonics , Volume 8, 2014, pp. 775-778, abstract
  9. ↑ Acin, Masanes, Gisin From Bell's theorem to secure quantum key distribution . In: Physical Review Letters , 97, 120405 (2006), Arxiv
  10. ↑ Baas, Branciard, Gisin, van Houwelingen, Salart, Zbinden Testing the speed of 'spooky action at a distance' , Nature 454, 861 (2008), Arxiv
  11. ↑ Baas, Branciard, Gisin, van Houwelingen, Salart, Zbinden Spacelike separation in a Bell test assuming gravitationally induced collapses , Physical Review Letters 100, 220404 (2008), Arxiv
  12. ^ Gisin Quantum Gloves: Physics and Information , 2004
  13. ↑ Acknowledgment of the Bell Prize
personal data
SURNAME Gisin, Nicolas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva , Switzerland