Physics Department Faculty:
Roy J. Glauber
Mallinckrodt Professor of PhysicsPhD 1949, Harvard University
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2005 Nobel Prize in Physics"for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence." |
Roy Glauber's recent research has dealt with problems in a number of areas of quantum optics, a field which, broadly speaking, studies the quantum electrodynamical interactions of light and matter. He is also continuing work on several topics in high- energy collision theory, including the analysis of hadron collisions, and the statistical correlation of particles produced in high-energy reactions.
Specific topics of his current research include: the quantum mechanical behavior of trapped wave packets; interactions of light with trapped ions; atom counting-the statistical properties of free atom beams and their measurement; algebraic methods for dealing with fermion statistics; coherence and correlations of bosonic atoms near the Bose-Einstein condensation; the theory of continuously monitored photon counting-and its reaction on quantum sources; the fundamental nature of “quantum jumps”; resonant transport of particles produced multiply in high-energy collisions; the multiple diffraction model of proton-proton and proton-antiproton scattering.
- R.J. Glauber and M. Lewenstein, "Quantum optics of dielectric media," Phys. Rev. A 43: 467 (1991).
- R.J. Glauber, "The quantum mechanics of trapped wave packets," in Laser Manipulation of Atoms and Ions, Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi" Course 118, 1991, ed. A. Arimondo, et al. (North Holland, Amsterdam 1992), p. 643.
- R.J. Glauber, "Some reflections of coherence and ion trapping," in Coherent States: Past, Present, and Future, ed. D. H. Feng et al. (World Scientific, Singapore 1994), p. 193.
- G. Schrade, V. Man'ko, W. Schleich, and R. Glauber, "Wigner functions in the Paul trap." Quantum and Semiclassical Optics 7, 307 (1995).
- L. You, M. Lewensterin, R. Glauber, and J. Cooper, "Quantum field theory of atoms interacting with photons III." Phys. Rev. A 53, 329 (1996).