Peter Zoller

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Template:Short description Template:DMCA Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Peter Zoller, FRS (born 16 September 1952)[1] is a theoretical physicist from Austria. He was professor at the University of Innsbruck[1] and is known for his pioneering research on quantum computing, quantum simulation and quantum communication.[2]

Biography

Peter Zoller studied physics at the University of Innsbruck,[1] where he received his doctorate in February 1977 with a thesis on the Stark effect[3] and then worked as an assistant at the Department of Theoretical Physics. In 1978/79, he was a Max Kade Fellow with Peter Lambropoulos at the University of Southern California and in 1980 he stayed in the group of Dan Walls at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. In 1981, Zoller handed in his work "Über die lichtstatistische Abhängigkeit resonanter Multiphoton-Prozesse"[4] at the University of Innsbruck to become lecturer (Venia docendi). In 1981/82 and 1988 he was Visiting Fellow at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA) at the University of Colorado, Boulder,[5] and 1986 a visiting professor at the Université de Paris-Sud 11, Orsay.

In 1991, Zoller became Professor at the Physics Department of the University of Colorado, Boulder, and JILA Fellow. At the end of 1994, he accepted a chair at the University of Innsbruck, where he worked until 2024. From 1995 to 1999, he headed the Department of Theoretical Physics, from 2001 to 2004, he was vice-dean of studies. From 2003 to 2024, he was a Scientific Director at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.[6]

Zoller remained closely associated with JILA as an Adjoint Fellow. Numerous guest professorships have taken him to major centers of physics. Among others, he was Loeb Lecturer at Harvard University (2004)[7] 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, Netherlands (2005)[8] and Distinguished Lecturer at the Technion in Haifa (2007).[9] He was Moore Distinguished Scholar at Caltech (2008/2010),[10] Arnold Sommerfeld Lecturer at LMU Munich (2010),[11] Distinguished Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching (2012) and Solvay Professor of Physics at the University of Brussels (2015).[12] In 2014, he became "External Scientific Member" at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics.[13] In 2025, he was Benjamin Lee Professor in South Korea[14] and was awarded a JAE Chair at the Spanish National Research Council CSIC in Madrid.[15]

In 2018, Peter Zoller co-founded Alpine Quantum Technologies, a quantum computing hardware company.[16]

Research

As a theoretical physicist, Zoller has made significant contributions to atomic physics, many-body physics and quantum information science. In particular, his proposals on quantum computing with trapped ions, on quantum simulation with ultracold atoms in optical lattices and on quantum repeaters in quantum communication have made a decisive contribution to bringing theoretical concepts of quantum information into a laboratory setting. This has inspired and guided new experimental research directions and established quantum optical systems as one of the leading experimental platforms for quantum technologies.

In 1995, together with Ignacio Cirac, he proposed a “quantum computer with cold trapped ions”.[17] This was the first experimentally realistic and comprehensive proposal for a universal quantum computer. This work triggered a rapid experimental development in which numerous pioneering achievements such as the demonstration of quantum algorithms, digital quantum simulations, quantum error correction and quantum metrology were achieved. In 1999, Cirac and Zoller proposed a quantum computer based on cold atoms in optical lattices, in which two-qubit gates are executed by controlled collisions.[18] A year later, together with Mikhail Lukin and others, they presented an alternative way to implement these gates using Rydberg atoms.[19] With the ever-improving experimental control of neutral atoms in laser tweezers, this approach is becoming increasingly important.[20]

In 1998, Cirac and Zoller proposed the use of ultracold atoms in optical lattices as an analog quantum simulator for Hubbard models to investigate questions in solid-state physics.[21] This approach allows strongly interacting many-body systems to be probed in both equilibrium and non-equilibrium states, addressing key questions in the theory and design of correlated quantum materials and in regimes challenging for classical calculations.[22] The experimental development of this platform has led to a number of important advances, including the first observation of the transition between superfluidity and a Mott insulator,[23] the creation and study of topological quantum phases of matter with synthetic gauge fields, and the exploration of the 2D fermionic Hubbard model.

Also in 1998, a team led by Zoller presented the concept of quantum repeaters,[24] which overcame the problems associated with noise and the loss of photons in optical fibers and made quantum communication over long distances possible. Previously, they had discovered the possibility of entangling atoms by exchanging photons at a distance.[25] In 2001, they proposed a specific atomic setup to build such quantum repeaters.[26] These have become a crucial building block for the development and deployment of quantum communication.

Zoller's ideas and concepts attract widespread interest within the scientific community and his works are highly cited.[27][28]

Awards

Peter Zoller received honorary doctorates of the University of Amsterdam (2012),[29] the University of Colorado Boulder (2019),[30] and the University of Concepción (2024).[31]

For his achievements in the field of quantum optics and quantum information and especially for his pioneering work on quantum computers, quantum simulation and quantum communication he als received numerous prizes, these include:

In 2001, Peter Zoller became full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.[48] In 2008 he was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences[49] and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences,[50] in 2009 to the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences,[51] in 2010 to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina,[52] in 2012 to the European Academy of Sciences, in 2013 to the Academia Europaea,[53] in 2023 in the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei,[54] in 2024 to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, in 2025 to the Chinese Academy of Sciences[55] and in 2026 to the Royal Society[56].

Books

Peter Zoller and Crispin Gardiner have jointly written:

  • Quantum Noise; Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 2nd ed. 1999, 3rd ed. 2004 Template:Isbn
  • The Quantum World of Ultra-Cold Atoms and Light Book I: Foundations of Quantum Optics, Imperial College Press, London and Singapore 2014. Template:Isbn
  • The Quantum World of Ultra-Cold Atoms and Light Book II: Physics of Quantum Optical Devices, Imperial College Press, London and Singapore 2015. Template:Isbn
  • The Quantum World of Ultra-Cold Atoms and Light Book III: Ultra-Cold Atoms, World Scientific, London and Singapore 2014. Template:Isbn

See also

References

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