Peter Zoller Explained

Peter Zoller
Birth Date:16 September 1952
Birth Place:Innsbruck, Austria
Field:Physicist
Work Institution:University of Innsbruck
Alma Mater:University of Innsbruck
Doctoral Advisor:Fritz Ehlotzky
Known For:Trapped ion quantum computer
Prizes:John Stewart Bell Prize (2019)
Herbert Walther Award (2016)
Wolf Prize in Physics (2013)
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2008)
Benjamin Franklin Medal (2010)
Dirac Medal (2006)
Max Planck Medal (2005)

Peter Zoller (born 16 September 1952)[1] is a theoretical physicist from Austria. He is professor at the University of Innsbruck and works on quantum optics and quantum information and is best known for his pioneering research on quantum computing and quantum communication and for bridging quantum optics and solid state physics.[2]

Biography

Peter Zoller studied physics at the University of Innsbruck,[1] obtained his doctorate there in February 1977, and became a lecturer at their Institute of Theoretical Physics. For 1978/79, he was granted a Max Kade stipend to research with Peter Lambropoulos at the University of Southern California. In 1980, he stayed at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand, as a researcher with the group around Dan Walls. In 1981, Peter Zoller handed in his book "Über die lichtstatistische Abhängigkeit resonanter Multiphoton-Prozesse"[3] at the University of Innsbruck to qualify as a professor by receiving the "venia docendi". He spent 1981/82 and 1988 as visiting fellow at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA) of the University of Colorado, Boulder,[4] and 1986 as guest professor at the Université de Paris-Sud 11, Orsay. In 1991, Peter Zoller was appointed Professor of Physics and JILA Fellow at JILA and at the Physics Department of the University of Colorado, Boulder. At the end of 1994, he accepted a chair at the University of Innsbruck, where he has worked ever since. From 1995 to 1999, he headed the Institute of Theoretical Physics, from 2001 to 2004, he was vice-dean of studies. Peter Zoller continues to keep in close touch with JILA as Adjoint Fellow. Numerous guest professorships have taken him to all major centers of physics throughout the world. He was Loeb lecturer in Harvard, Boston, MA (2004)[5] and Yan Jici chair professor at the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, chair professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing (2004), Lorentz professor at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands (2005),[6] Distinguished Lecturer at the Technion in Haifa (2007),[7] Moore Distinguished Scholar at Caltech (2008/2010)[8] and Arnold Sommerfeld Lecturer at LMU München (2010).[9] In 2012/13 he was "Distinguished Fellow" at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics[10] in Garching, Munich. In 2014 he has been elected as an "External Scientific Member" at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics.[11] In 2015 he held the International Jacques Solvay Chair in Physics at the University of Brussels .[12] Since 2003, Peter Zoller has also held the position of Scientific Director at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.[13]

In 2018, Peter Zoller co-founded Alpine Quantum Technologies, a quantum computing hardware company.[14]

Research

As a theoretician, Peter Zoller has written major works on the interaction of laser light and atoms. In addition to fundamental developments in quantum optics he has succeeded in bridging quantum information and solid state physics. The model of a quantum computer,[15] suggested by him and Ignacio Cirac in 1995, is based on the interaction of lasers with cold ions confined in an electromagnetic trap. The principles of this idea have been implemented in experiments over recent years and it is considered one of the most promising concepts for the development of a scalable quantum computer.[16] Zoller and his researcher colleagues have also managed to link quantum physics with solid state physics. One of his suggestions has been to build a quantum simulator with cold atoms[17] and use it to research hitherto unexplained phenomena in high temperature superconductors.[18] Zoller's ideas and concepts attract widespread interest within the scientific community and his works are highly cited.[19] [20]

Books

Peter Zoller and Crispin Gardiner have jointly written the books

Awards

Peter Zoller has received numerous awards for his achievements in the field of quantum optics and quantum information and especially for his pioneering work on quantum computers and quantum communication. These include:

In 2001, Peter Zoller became full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.[35] In 2008 he was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences[36] and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences,[37] in 2009 to the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences,[38] in 2010 to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina,[39] in 2012 to the European Academy of Sciences, in 2013 to the Academia Europaea,[40] and in 2023 in the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.[41] In 2019 he has received the honorary doctorate of the University of Colorado Boulder[42] in 2012 one of the University of Amsterdam.[43]

See also

References

  1. Web site: Biography Peter Zoller. University of Innsbruck. 19 December 2016.
  2. Web site: Prof. Peter Zoller Winner of Wolf Prize in Physics – 2013. Wolf Foundation. 4 April 2014.
  3. Web site: Über die lichtstatistische Abhängigkeit resonanter Multiphoton-Prozesse. https://archive.today/20140806164449/http://search.obvsg.at/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=UIB&docId=UIB_aleph_acc000589817&fn=permalink. dead. 6 August 2014. University of Innsbruck. 30 July 2014.
  4. Web site: Peter Zoller. JILA. 30 July 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20160203014251/https://jila.colorado.edu/people/zoller-0. 3 February 2016. dead.
  5. Web site: The Boston Area Physics Calendar. Brown University. 30 July 2014. 10 August 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140810141452/http://www.het.brown.edu/seminars/bapc/old.bapc/fall-spring-04.txt/2.16.04.txt. dead.
  6. Web site: Lorentz Chair. Leiden University. 30 July 2014.
  7. Web site: The Lewiner Institute for Theoretical Physics Distinguished Lecture Series. Technion. 30 July 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140907105647/http://physics.technion.ac.il/~litp/dist/dist-program.php?&id=65. 7 September 2014.
  8. Web site: Physicists propose quantum entanglement for motion of microscopic objects. California Institute of Technology. 30 July 2014.
  9. Web site: Eighth Arnold Sommerfeld Lecture Series. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. 30 July 2014.
  10. Web site: Prof. Peter Zoller becomes "Distinguished Fellow" at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics. Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics. 30 July 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140808040144/http://www.mpq.mpg.de/cms/mpq/en/news/awards/archiv/2012/12_01_12.html. 8 August 2014.
  11. Web site: Prof. Peter Zoller is elected as "External Scientific Member" at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics. Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics. 30 July 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140718174109/http://www.mpq.mpg.de/cms/mpq/en/news/awards/14_07_10.html. 18 July 2014.
  12. Web site: Chairs. 28 September 2015. International Solvay Institutes.
  13. Web site: Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information. IQOQI. 30 July 2014.
  14. Web site: Austria promotes quantum computing spin-off. Invest in Austria. March 7, 2018.
  15. Cirac. Ignacio. Zoller. Peter. Quantum Computations with Cold Trapped Ions . Physical Review Letters. APS. 74. 20. 4091–4094 . 10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.4091. 1995PhRvL..74.4091C. 10058410. 1995.
  16. Monroe. Christopher. Kim. Jamie. Scaling the Ion Trap Quantum Processor. Science. AAAS. 339. 6124. 1164–1169. 10.1126/science.1231298. 2013Sci...339.1164M. 23471398. 2013. 206545831.
  17. Jaksch. Dieter. Bruder. Christoph. Cirac. Ignacio. Gardiner. Crispin. Zoller. Peter. Cold Bosonic Atoms in Optical Lattices. Physical Review Letters. APS. 81. 15. 3108–3111. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.3108. cond-mat/9805329 . 1998PhRvL..81.3108J . 1998. 55578669.
  18. Cirac. Ignacio. Zoller. Peter. Goals and opportunities in quantum simulation. Nature Physics. Nature Publishing Group. 8. 4. 264–266. 10.1038/nphys2275. 2012NatPh...8..264C . 2012. 109930964 .
  19. Web site: Highly Cited Research. Thomson Reuters. 10 April 2014.
  20. Web site: Google Scholar Citations. Google Scholar. 10 April 2014.
  21. Web site: Ignacio Cirac and Peter Zoller awarded the sixth Bell Prize . 2023-11-13 . cqiqc.physics.utoronto.ca . en.
  22. Web site: The Micius Quantum Prize. miciusprize.org. 2019-04-30.
  23. Web site: The Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics. Physics of Quantum Electronics (PQE) conference . 16 January 2018.
  24. Web site: The Optical Society and DPG Name Peter Zoller Winner of the 2016 Herbert Walther Award. 7 December 2015. 11 December 2015. The Optical Society.
  25. Web site: Herbert Walther Award. The Optical Society. 29 February 2016.
  26. Web site: Peter Zoller erhält Hamburger Preis für theoretische Physik. University of Hamburg. 10 April 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20131219024519/http://www.joachim-herz-stiftung.de/assets/pe_hamburgerpreisfuertheoretischephysik_20111125.pdf. 19 December 2013. dead.
  27. Web site: Stiftung . Joachim Herz . Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics - Joachim Herz Stiftung . 2023-11-01 . www.joachim-herz-stiftung.de . en-US.
  28. Web site: The Blaise Pascal Medals 2011. European Academy of Sciences. 10 April 2014.
  29. Web site: Franklin Laureate Database – Peter Zoller. The Franklin Institute. 10 April 2014.
  30. Web site: Dirac Medallist 2006. Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). 10 April 2014.
  31. Web site: 2006 International Quantum Communications Award. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology. 10 April 2014.
  32. Web site: DPG Preisträgerinnen und Preisträger 2005. Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. 10 April 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20160329142558/http://dpg-physik.de/preise/preistraeger2005.html#Max-Planck-Medaille. 29 March 2016. dead.
  33. Web site: Max Born Award. The Optical Society. 10 April 2014.
  34. Web site: Wittgenstein Award Laureate 1998 Univ. Prof. Dr. Peter Zoller. Wittgensteinpreis TrägerInnen Club. 10 April 2014.
  35. Web site: Member Directory: Peter Zoller. Austrian Academy of Sciences. 10 April 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140413144033/http://www.oeaw.ac.at/english/about/personen/mitarbeiter/detail-page.html?user_oeawperssuche_pi1%5bid%5d=11002. 13 April 2014. dead.
  36. Web site: Member Directory: Peter Zoller. United States National Academy of Sciences. 10 April 2014.
  37. Web site: Foreign Members: Peter Zoller. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. 10 April 2014.
  38. Web site: Académicos Correspondientes Extranjeros. Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences. 10 April 2014. 1 April 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160401212539/http://www.rac.es/2/2_3_5.php. dead.
  39. Web site: List of Members: Peter Zoller. German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. 10 April 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20160829083921/http://www.leopoldina.org/en/members/list-of-members/member/1452/. 29 August 2016. dead.
  40. Web site: Peter Zoller. The Academy of Europe. 10 April 2014.
  41. Web site: Nuovi Soci 2023 Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei . 2023-11-13 . www.lincei.it . it.
  42. Web site: Everything you need to know about the May 9 commencement ceremon. 30 April 2019 . University of Colorado Boulder. 9 May 2019.
  43. Web site: Honorary doctorate for Prof. Peter Zoller. University of Amsterdam. 10 April 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20131219023644/http://iop.uva.nl/news-events/content/2011/11/honorary-doctorate-for-prof-peter-zoller.html. 19 December 2013. dead.

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