Steven J. van Enk explained

Alma Mater:	University of Leiden (Ph.D) University of Utrecht (B.S.)
Thesis Title:	Light as a Thermodynamic Force
Thesis Year:	1992
Doctoral Advisor:	Gerard Nienhuis

Steven Jacob van Enk (born 1965) is a physicist on the faculty of the University of Oregon whose fields of study are theoretical quantum information and quantum optics.

Early life and education

Born in 1965^[1] in Veenendaal, the Netherlands, Steven J. van Enk lived in Holland until 1993.^[2] He earned a Ph.D. at the Universiteit Leiden in 1992.^[3]

Van Enk is a national FIDE Master chess player.^[4]

Career

Van Enk held postdoc positions at the MaxPlanck Institute of Quantum Optics, at the University of Innsbruck, and at Cal Tech, where he worked with H. Jeff Kimble, a leading theorist in quantum information. Van Enk was then a member of the technical staff at Bell Labs for six years.

In 2006 van Enk joined the University of Oregon Physics Department,^[5] where he became a full professor in 2009. His work has been partially supported by N.S.F. grants.^[6]

Selected publications

• Chou . C. W. . de Riedmatten . H. . Felinto . D. . Polyakov . S. V. . van Enk . S. J. . Kimble . H. J. . December 2005 . Measurement-induced entanglement for excitation stored in remote atomic ensembles . Nature . en . 438 . 7069 . 828–832 . 10.1038/nature04353 . 1476-4687. quant-ph/0510055 .
• van Enk . S. J. . Hirota . O. . 2001-07-13 . Entangled coherent states: Teleportation and decoherence . Physical Review A . 64 . 2 . 022313 . 10.1103/PhysRevA.64.022313. quant-ph/0012086 .
• van Enk . S. J. . 2005-12-29 . Single-particle entanglement . Physical Review A . 72 . 6 . 064306 . 10.1103/PhysRevA.72.064306. quant-ph/0507189 .
• van Enk . S. J. . Beenakker . C. W. J. . 2012-03-16 . Measuring Tr ρ n Single Copies of ρ Using Random Measurements . Physical Review Letters . 108 . 11 . 110503 . 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.110503. 1112.1027 .
• van Enk . S. J. . Pike . R. . 2002-08-06 . Classical rules in quantum games . Physical Review A . 66 . 2 . 024306 . 10.1103/PhysRevA.66.024306. quant-ph/0203133 .

Awards, honors

• 2010 American Physical Society Fellow, cited "For pioneering contributions in theoretical quantum information and quantum optics, including entanglement verification, quantum communication and teleportation, and angular momentum of photons."^[7]

See also

• Cat state

External links

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Steven Van Enk chess games - 365Chess.com . 2024-06-01 . www.365chess.com.
2. . Spring 2011 . Profile - Steven van Enk . Physics News, University of Oregon Department of Physics . 1-2.
3. Web site: Steven van Enk - The Mathematics Genealogy Project . 2024-06-01 . www.mathgenealogy.org.
4. Web site: Luerken . Katie . 2024-02-08 . Chapter Highlights . 2024-06-01 . Society of Physics Students . en.
5. Web site: Steven van Enk College of Arts and Sciences . 2024-06-01 . cas.uoregon.edu.
6. Web site: NSF Award Search: Award # 1205544 - Transient Quantum Optomechanics . 2024-06-01 . www.nsf.gov.
7. Web site: APS Fellow Archive . 2024-04-19 . www.aps.org . en.