- Peter Zoller
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name = Peter Zoller
birth_date = Birth date and age|1952|9|16|df=yes
birth_place =Innsbruck ,Austria
residence = flagcountry|Austria
nationality = flagcountry|Austria
field =Physicist
work_institution =University of Innsbruck
alma_mater =University of Innsbruck
doctoral_advisor =
doctoral_students =
known_for =quantum optics ,quantum information
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prizes =Dirac Medal (2006),Max Planck Medal (2005)
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footnotes =Peter Zoller (born
16 September 1952 ) is a theoretical physicist fromAustria . He isProfessor at theUniversity of Innsbruck and works onquantum optics andquantum information and is best known for his pioneering research onquantum computing andquantum communication and for bridging quantum optics andsolid state physics .Biography
Peter Zoller studied physics at the
University of Innsbruck , obtained his doctorate there in February 1977, and became a lecturer at their Institute of Theoretical Physics. For 1978/79, he was granted aMax Kade stipend to research withPeter Lambropoulos at theUniversity of Southern California . In 1980, he stayed inAuckland ,New Zealand , as a researcher with the group aroundDan Walls . In 1981, Peter Zoller handed in his book “Über die lichtstatistische Abhängigkeit resonanter Multiphoton-Prozesse” 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 theJoint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA) of the University of Colorado,Boulder , 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 centres of physics throughout the world. He was Loeb lecturer inHarvard ,Boston , MA (2004), Yan Jici chair professor at theUniversity of Science and Technology of China ,Heifei , and chair professor atTsinghua University ,Beijing (2004), as well as Lorentz professor at theUniversity of Leiden in theNetherlands (2005). Since 2003, Peter Zoller has also held the position of Scientific Director at theInstitute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of theAustrian Academy of Sciences .Research
As a theoretician, Peter Zoller has written major works on the interaction of
laser light andatoms . 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 [J.I. Cirac, P. Zoller, Quantum Computations with Cold Trapped Ions, [http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v74/i20/p4091_1 Phys. Rev. Lett. 74 20, 4091–4094 (1995)] ] , suggested by him andIgnacio Cirac in 1995, is based on the interaction of lasers with coldions 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 scalablequantum computer . Zoller and his researcher colleagues have also managed to link quantum physics with solid state physics. One of his suggestions has been to build aquantum simulator with coldatoms and use it to research hitherto unexplained phenomena in high temperaturesuperconductor s [D. Jaksch, C. Bruder, J.I. Cirac, C.W. Gardiner und P. Zoller, Cold Bosonic Atoms in Optical Lattices, [http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v81/i15/p3108_1 Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3108 - 3111 (1998)] ] . Zoller’s ideas and concepts attract plenty of interest within the scientific community, his works have been cited more than 18,000 times to date (2008).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 the
Dirac Medal (2006), the 6thInternational Quantum Communication Award (2006), theNiels Bohr/UNESCO Gold Medal (2005), theMax Planck Medal (2005) of theDeutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft , the Humboldt Research Award (2000), theSchrödinger Prize (1998) of theAustrian Academy of Sciences , theMax Born Award (1998) of theOptical Society of America , as well as theWittgenstein Award (1998), Austria’s highest scientific accolade. In 2001, Peter Zoller became full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, in 2008 he was elected to theUnited States National Academy of Sciences and theRoyal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences .Works
C. W. Gardiner , P. Zoller: Quantum Noise, A Handbook of Markovian and Non-Markovian Quantum Stochastic Methods with Applications to Quantum Optics. Springer, Berlin 2004 ISBN 3-540-22301-0References
External links
* [http://www.uibk.ac.at/th-physik/people/cv/zoller_peter.pdf Biography Peter Zoller]
* [http://www.uibk.ac.at/th-physik/ Institute for Theoretical Physics (ITP), University of Innsbruck]
* [http://www.iqoqi.at/ Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI)]
* [http://www.wittgenstein-club.at/98zol.htm Wittgenstein Award Laureate Peter Zoller]Persondata
NAME=Zoller, Peter
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DATE OF BIRTH=16 September 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH=Innsbruck ,Austria
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