Jonathan Dowling

Jonathan P. Dowling
Born 1955
Smithtown, New York
Residence United States
Nationality Ireland United States
Alma mater University of Colorado at Boulder
Known for Quantum Optics, Quantum technology
Awards Willis Lamb Medal, NASA Space Act Award, US Army Research & Development Achievement Award
Scientific career
Fields Physicist
Institutions Louisiana State University
Doctoral advisor Asim Orhan Barut

Jonathan P. Dowling is an Irish-American co-director of the Horace Hearne Institute for Theoretical Physics and a Hearne chair in Theoretical Physics at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, both at Louisiana State University. He is known for his work on quantum technology, particularly for exploiting quantum entanglement (in the form of a NOON state) for applications to quantum metrology, quantum sensing, and quantum imaging. He has also made contributions to quantum information theory, the field of photonic crystals, and the foundations of quantum electrodynamics. Dowling is one of the founders of the US Government program in quantum information processing.

Career

Dowling holds dual citizenship from Ireland and the USA. He obtained his BSc in Physics at the University of Texas at Austin, and then attended graduate school at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he obtained an MSc in Applied Mathematics, a MSc in Physics, and finally a PhD in Mathematical Physics; his advisor was Asim Orhan Barut. He then moved to the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics as a post-doctoral researcher in the group of Herbert Walther where he also collaborated with Marlan Scully. After that, he joined the quantum optics group of Charles M. Bowden at United States Army Aviation and Missile Command in Huntsville, Alabama, as a United States National Research Council post-doctoral research associate, where he was eventually promoted to research physicist of the United States Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center. After this, he worked as senior research scientist and then principal scientist at in the Quantum Computing Technologies Group at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. After this position, he moved to Louisiana State University to take up his current posts there.

Research

Dowling has authored over 170 scientific publications[1] in quantum electrodynamics, quantum optics, quantum sciences, and quantum technology. His publications have been cited over 8,000 times, with an average number of 50 citations per paper and a Hirsch index over 43.[2] Over 26 papers have been cited over 100 times each. He also holds seven US Patents. Dowlings's three most-cited research papers are on the topics of quantum lithography,[3] optical switching in photonic crystals,[4] and the photonic band-edge laser.[5] Dowling is also known for a series of papers on the quantum theory of atomic spontaneous emission and other quantum electrodynamics effects in optical micro-cavities and photonic crystals.[6] His recent work has focused on optical quantum computing,[7] as well as quantum metrology, quantum imaging,[8] and quantum sensing[9] – all with the optical NOON state[10] and other related quantum entangled states.

Media

Dowling is the author of a science book, "Schrödinger's Killer App – Race to Build the World's First Quantum Computer"[11]

His 2003 paper, "Quantum Technology: The Second Quantum Revolution," co-authored with Gerard J. Milburn predicted the current boom in quantum technologies.[12].

References

  1. ↑ Dowling's Publications and Patents, "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 26 July 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-31. .
  2. ↑ https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=3YObZBIAAAAJ
  3. ↑ Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2733 (2000) .
  4. ↑ Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 1368 (1994) .
  5. ↑ J. App. Phys. 75, 1896 (1994) .
  6. ↑ E.g. Phys. Rev. A 46, 612 (1992) .
  7. ↑ Rev. Mod. Phys. 79, 135 (2007) .
  8. ↑ J. Opt. B 6, S796 (2004) .
  9. ↑ Concepts in Physics 2, 225 (2005) .
  10. ↑ Dowling, JP. 2008. Quantum optical metrology – the lowdown on high-N00N states. CONTEMPORARY PHYSICS 49 (2): 125–143. .
  11. ↑ P., Dowling, Jonathan. Schrödinger's killer app : race to build the world's first quantum computer. Boca Raton. ISBN 9781439896730. OCLC 746838207.
  12. ↑ "Quantum technology: the second quantum revolution," by Jonathan P. Dowling & Gerard J. Milburn; Published 15 August 2003; DOI:10.1098/rsta.2003.1227
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