Jonathan P. Dowling, PhD

Horace C. Hearne Jr. Professor of Theoretical Physics

Co-Director, Horace C. Hearne Jr. Institute for Theoretical Physics

 

Quantum Science and Technologies Group

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Louisiana State University (LSU)

202 Nicholson Hall, Tower Drive, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803

Tel: (225) 288-1781, Fax: (225) 578-5855

Email: jdowling@phys.lsu.edu; URL: http://quantum.phys.lsu.edu

Service: I have served on numerous Department of Defense (DoD) Review Boards and Organizational Committees; in particular for the Army Research Office (ARO), the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA), and the National Security Agency (NSA). I organized the first international DoD workshops on photonic band-gap materials (1991), quantum cryptography and computing (1995), and the atom laser (1997). More recently I organized two workshops jointly sponsored by the DoD and NASA on quantum clock synchronization (2001) and quantum imaging and metrology (2003), as well as a DoD and Hearne Institute workshop on linear optical quantum information processing (2006), and a National Science Foundation (NSF) workshop on quantum materials and high-performance computing (2007). I have regularly served as technical advisor and reviewer for the, National Research Council (NRC), DoD, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the NSF, and numerous foreign funding agencies, in the research areas of quantum optics; nanotechnology; quantum sensors; coherent quantum electronics; photonic band-gap materials; quantum computing and information processing; atomic, molecular, and optical physics; and general relativity. I have also reviewed hundreds of research papers in these fields for professional journals, and I currently serve on the editorial board of the journal, Concepts of Physics, and have served on the board of the Journal of Optics A and Physical Review A. I was appointed Fellow of the Institute of Physics in 1998 and the Optical Society of America in 2005. Since 2005 I have served as a Texas Engineering Experiment Station researcher at Texas A&M University and a visiting scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

Funding: At the Army I regularly raised about $1M a year in in-house laboratory independent research program funds. While at JPL the budget for my group averaged around $2.5M/Yr. I raised these funds from a variety of sources — primarily from the DoD and NASA. Since coming to LSU I have been on three grants from the DoD totaling nearly $12M as PI or Co-PI, with about $2.0M of that coming to LSU.

Research Interests: My principal areas of research concern quantum science and technologies, quantum optics, foundations of quantum mechanics, and quantum information theory. In particular, I am actively working in the areas of cavity quantum electrodynamics, photonic band-gap structures, quantum coherence, atom optics, quantum information, quantum imaging, and quantum sensors. My recent topics of research are related to quantum technologies, including quantum lithography, quantum gravity gradiometry, linear optical quantum information processing, and quantum interferometry.

Research Plan: I will continue my work in theoretical studies of optical approaches to quantum information processing, including: linear optical quantum computing, quantum computing with Bose-Einstein condensates, cavity quantum electrodynamics, as well as theory of ion traps and other approaches to quantum optics related to electromagnetically induced transparency. I would also continue my research into the development of photonic band-gap materials for optical quantum information, such as for single photon sources and detectors, as well as for cavity QED approaches. I will continue my work on the general theory of entangled light and atoms in the context of quantum computation as well as quantum imaging and sensing systems. I will also pursue my work on using photonic band gap materials for spontaneous and thermal emission control.

Teaching Experience and Philosophy: As a graduate student at the University of Colorado, I was a teaching assistant in the mathematics department for two years. After receiving my MS in applied mathematics I was promoted to graduate instructor and for six years taught my own courses in college algebra, calculus I–III, linear algebra, differential equations, and introductory physics courses. I regularly won the annual university-wide graduate instructor teaching award. In 1988–89, I taught introductory physics at Denver Metropolitan Community College and the University of Colorado at Denver, also with very good student evaluations, and since coming to LSU I have taught graduate and undergraduate physics courses with outstanding reviews. I believe in a exciting style of teaching with a good mix of lectures, collaborative student interactions, and demonstrations.

Formal Education:

BS with honors, Physics, University of Texas at Austin.

MS Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder.

MS Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder.

PhD Mathematical Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder; Advisor, Asim O. Barut.

Professional Experience

8/04-Present: Horace C. Hearne Jr. Professor of Theoretical Physics & Co-Director of the Hearne Institute of Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University (LSU). Set up new Hearne Institute for Theoretical Physics and associated Quantum Science and Technologies Group at LSU. I am a principal investigator (PI) on a $700K DARPA quantum sensor grant, co-principal-investigator (Co-PI) on a $5M, five-year, ARO, Multi-University Research Initiative (MURI) on Quantum Imaging. I am a Co-PI on a $6M, four-year, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARDA) quantum computing concept maturation grant. I was also co-investigator (Co-I) on a $400K National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) directorÕs innovation initiative grant for 2006. I currently mentor one assistant professor (Hwang Lee), and am research advisor for three postdocs, five graduate students, and three undergraduate students.

01/05–Present: Texas Experimental Engineering Scientist, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

01/05–Present: Visiting Scientist, NASA JPL, Pasadena, CA.

10/00-8/04: Principal Scientist and Group Supervisor, Quantum Computing Technologies Group, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California. Procured over $2M in DoD and NASA funding for JPL in FY02 for quantum technologies. Managed two large DoD grants for quantum technology research in gravity gradiometry and quantum clock synchronization. Organizer of NASA-DoD Workshop on Quantum Dots for Quantum Computing, Japan, 2002; Organizer of NASA-DoD workshop on Quantum Imaging and Metrology, Pasadena, 2002; Co-Organizer of Workshop on Photonic Crystals, Laguna Beach in 2002. Winner of 2002 Lamb Medal for Quantum Optics and Laser Sciences. Semi-Finalist for Discovery Magazine Technology of the Year Award for work in quantum lithography in 2000. Initiator of international collaborative effort between the JPL Quantum Computing Technologies activity and the Australian Center for Quantum Computing Technologies. The NSA funded this collaboration at $1.1M, (FY01–05). Leveraged a total of $3M in NSA funding for four different quantum-computing activities at JPL. I was PI on an Office of Naval Research (ONR) grant for quantum optics for $800K for (FY00–05). I was Co-I on multiple grants in quantum technologies in the JPL group. I served on the editorial board of Physical Review A and Journal of Optics B. My work focused on linear optical approaches to quantum information processing and photonic crystal design for thermal emissivity and high-power laser applications. In 2000 built up world-class quantum optics laboratory in my group at JPL.

10/99-9/00: Principal Research Scientist, Quantum Computing Technologies Group, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California. During this period I initiated several new research programs, including the quantum optical gyro, quantum interferometric lithography, and an experimental program of atom interferometry for gravity gradiometry from space. I organized a new JPL quantum technologies thrust area, and served on a NASA panel for nanotechnologies. I was promoted to principal scientist in 1999. I developed two new key quantum technologies: quantum lithography and quantum atomic clock synchronization.

10/98-9/99: Research Scientist at the Senior Level, Ultra-Computing and Quantum Computing & Technologies Groups, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California. During this time I carried out research in quantum interferometry, quantum gravity gradiometry, and quantum information theory. In addition, I developed an entirely new research thrust area at JPL, called quantum technologies.

12/95-9/98: Research Physicist GS-12 & GS-13, Weapons Sciences Directorate, U. S. Army Aviation & Missile Command (AMCOM), Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. I was promoted to a GS-13 in the summer of 1996. During this period, I continued my work on photonic band gap materials and developed a novel matrix transfer method for understanding radiation rates from one-dimensional periodic structures. I also became involved in work on quantum computing and atom lasers, both topics of interest to the DoD. I produced an important paper on the quantum noise limits to the atom laser gyro. I organized an Army-sponsored meeting on atom lasers in Tucson in the spring of 1996. I was also one of the DoD technical monitors for the multi-million dollar, Multi-disciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) that was awarded by ARO/DARPA in the spring of 1996 to UCLA. In addition, I was also on the ARO/DARPA reviewing panel for the broad agency announcement for a MURI in quantum computing. This multi-million dollar MURI was eventually awarded in the summer of 1996 to Caltech. I continued to be a member of the panel of DoD Technical Monitors for these MURI programs. In the spring of 1997, I was on the ARO/DARPA review panel for proposals for the high infrared directional emissivity program, solicited under a DARPA broad agency announcement. In 1997 I received a grant from the ONR. In 1996 I was awarded the Army Research and Development Achievement Award for Technical Achievement for my work in the area of photonic band-gap research. During this period, my patent on the optical diode was granted, and a new patent for a photonic band gap delay line was filed. I co-authored a review article on atom optics for a book chapter in Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics in 1997. I was also sole editor of the book: Electron Theory and Quantum Electrodynamics — 100 Years Later, Proceedings of NATO Advanced Study Institute held in Edirne, Turkey (Plenum, New York, 1997). I began a research program on using quantum optics and quantum computing techniques to improve interferometry and gyroscopy for an orders of magnitude improvement in laser gyro navigation.

7/94-12/95, Research Physicist GS-11 & GS-12, Weapons Sciences Directorate, U. S. Army Aviation & Missile Command (AMCOM), Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. I worked in the quantum optics group with Dr. Charles Bowden. My work was a continuation of my research carried out there as a NRC postdoc and Battelle contractor. I was AMCOMÕs chief investigator into the area of photonic band-gap materials, and I continued to collaborate with Dr. Bloemer on several AMCOM research experiments in this field. I became an internationally recognized expert on cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) and photonic band-gap structures, and I regularly advised the ARO in these areas. In addition, I was closely involved with the quantum optics research thrusts of: regular and cavity quantum electrodynamics, near dipole-dipole effects, lasing without inversion, foundations of quantum mechanics, atom optics, atom laser, quantum cryptography, and quantum computing. I worked with the ARO to organize an the first DoD workshop on quantum cryptography and quantum computing, and I continued to advise the ARO, DARPA, and the NSA on funding of these fields. I was promoted to a GS-12 in the summer of 1995. I also worked with the ARO to organize a workshop on Army applications for the global positioning system, with special emphasis on the role of EinsteinÕs theory of relativity in limiting satellite-determined location accuracy.

4/94-7/94, Contractor, Battelle Corporation, Research Triangle, North Carolina. Worked for AMCOM as a contractor. Primary task was to model and derive analytical formulas to describe spontaneous emission rates in GaAs/GaAlAs, layered, semiconductor heterostructures. This was in support of the photonic band edge laser and optical diode research experiments. During this period I developed a new method for computing the density of states and atomic emission rates in an arbitrary, layered, dielectric structure.

10/90-4/94, Research Associate, National Research Council, Weapons Sciences Directorate, U. S. Army Aviation & Missile Command (AMCOM), Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. I was working as a research associate for the National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, under the advisorship of Dr. Charles Bowden at AMCOM. My research project consisted of an in-depth investigation into the properties of photon states of minimum phase uncertainty-states that would be useful in telecommunications and the making of sensitive laser gyroscopes. I also worked on cavity QED, nonlinear optics, a general theory of atomic emission rates in photonic band structures, neutron spin polarizers, and quantum limits to phase sensitivity in atom interferometers. In May of 1991 I gave an introductory lecture on photonic band gaps and photon localization before the Army Research Office (ARO), and based in part on this lecture, the Army labeled this area of quantum optics a critical emerging new technology. I organized a seminal workshop on this subject-held in January of 1992. In addition, I was an editor on a special issue of the Journal of the Optical Society of America on photonic band structures that appeared in February 1993. In 1993 and 1994 my study of photonic band edge effects led to several new opto-electronic device applications. In particular, I was co-inventor of the band edge laser, the nonlinear band edge optical limiter, and the optical diode. I collaborated on two experimental research projects: the band-edge laser and diode that resulted directly from my theoretical work.

6/89-9/90, Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (MPQ), Garching, Germany. Beginning in June of 1989, I began tenure at a 15-month postdoctoral position at the MPQ in Garching, under Prof. Herbert Walther, Director. My immediate research collaborator was Prof. Wolfgang P. Schleich, whom I worked with on the theory of nonclassical states of light, among other projects. I also did collaborative work with Professors G. S. Agarwal, A. O. Barut, M. O. Scully, and J. A. Wheeler while there. Projects that I worked on included: self-field QED, photon states of minimum phase uncertainty, atomic radiation in optical cavities, interference in phase space, and various other topics in quantum optics. This opportunity gave me the possibility to interact with a wide range of other physicists in the international quantum optics community.

1/89-5/89, Assistant Professor, Metropolitan State College (MSC), Denver, Colorado. Based on my stellar teaching ratings from the previous semester, I was promoted for the spring semester of 1989 to a full-time, temporary position as assistant professor at MSC. Duties included teaching undergraduate courses in physics and undergraduate physics laboratories. I also continued my theoretical research into the self-field approach to QED by developing an account of the Unruh effect of an accelerating detector and the related Hawking radiation from a black hole.

6/88-12/88, Part-time Instructor, Metropolitan State College, Denver, Colorado, and University of Colorado at Boulder. After completion of my PhD in May of l988, I was working part-time as an instructor at the two above-mentioned institutions. During the summer of l988, I was a recitation instructor for a second-semester, calculus-based physics course at CU Boulder. That fall term I was co-teaching and developing an experimental course in quantitative reasoning and math skills at CU Boulder that was eventually adopted into the required undergraduate curriculum. For this course I was awarded a certificate of teaching excellence. During this time, I was also in charge of several laboratory and self-paced sections of physics and astronomy at MSC. During this period, I was also collaborating with Prof. Barut at CU on publications related to my PhD research.

 

Memberships in Professional and Honorary Societies

1.              American Physical Society

2.              Optical Society of America, Fellow

 

Awards

1.              Fellow, Optical Society of America, 2005.

2.              NASA Space Act Award, ÒQuantum Interferometric Lithography: Exploiting Nonlocal Quantum Entanglement To Beat The Diffraction Limit,Ó 2002.

3.              Willis E. Lamb Medal for Laser Science and Quantum Optics, ÒFor pioneering contributions to quantum electronics and especially the study of spatial coherence effects of multiphoton entangled states (quantum lithography), 2002.

4.              Discover Magazine Technology of the Year Award for 2000 (semi-finalist).

5.              Winner of 1996 Army-wide Research, Development, & Engineering Achievement Award for development of mathematical models of electromagnetic wave emission and propagation in photonic band-gap materials.

6.              Army Award for assessment of the relativity community for application of EinsteinÕs General Theory of Relativity for improvement of accuracy in the Global Positioning System, 1995.

7.              National Research Council Associateship Awards: 1990, 1991, 1992.

8.              Fulbright Travel Grant Award, 1989.

9.              Fellowship Award from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1986.

10.            Graduate Instructor Awards for Teaching Excellence, l983 and 1988.

11.            Marquis WhoÕs Who in the South and Southwest

12.            Marquis WhoÕs Who in Science and Engineering

13.            Men of Achievement.

14.            International WhoÕs Who.

15.            Dictionary of International Biography.

16.            StrathmoreÕs WhoÕs Who.

 

Summary of Significant Achievements

1.     Developed concept for broadband optical delay device based on electromagnetically induced transparency. Developed design for Heisenberg limited charge and magnetic flux sensor based on superconducting elements and cavity quantum electrodynamics. Developed scheme for simulating the expansion of the universe in optical ion traps. Wrote significant review article on the field of linear optical quantum computing. Developed new scheme for quantum computation exploiting vortex states in Bose-Einstein condensates. Invented scheme to exploit the quantum Zeno effect to mitigate photon loss in quantum optical information processors. Developed polarization encoding scheme for fault-tolerant linear optical quantum computation. Designed a photonic crystal device for single photon sources for quantum optical communications.

2.     Invented the fields of quantum interferometry, quantum gyroscopy, quantum clock synchronization and quantum lithography, while working in quantum computing technologies group at JPL. Instituted JPL quantum technologies seminar series. Initiated JPL quantum atomic gravity gradiometer program. Developed JPL quantum internet test-bed facility. Initiated new JPL superconducting quantum computer program. Initiated collaboration between JPL and Australian Center for Quantum Information. Organized NASA-DoD workshop on quantum clock synchronization for space applications (2000). Organized NASA-DoD workshop on quantum dots for quantum computing, Kochi, Japan, (2002). Organizing NASA-DoD workshop on quantum imaging and metrology, Pasadena, 2002.

3.     I was an author of an invited review chapter, ÒEvanescent Light-Wave Atom Mirrors, Resonators, Waveguides, and Traps,Ó in Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics. This work has become a standard reference guide in the field.

4.     In the summer of 1995 I alerted the ARO to recent developments in quantum cryptography and quantum computing that could have an important impact on national security. In particular, quantum computers have been shown to be powerful tools for secret code decryption. I helped the ARO organize a workshop in conjunction with the NSA on the prospects for quantum computing and quantum cryptography (1995). From that meeting, several millions of dollars were allocated by the ARO and the NSA for academic research in quantum computing. I served as an ARO technical advisor on quantum information program.

5.     In 1995 I reviewed some recent developments concerning the incorporation of EinsteinÕs theory of relativity in the global positioning system. I organized an Army-sponsored workshop on Army applications of the global positioning system that was held in North Carolina (1995). In particular, I helped advise on the technical content of the symposium, which discussed the relativity limited accuracy of the GPS for missile guidance.

6.     Working with Dr. Bowden and Dr. M. O. Scully (Texas A&M), I was a principle investigator into the effects of near dipole-dipole (NDD) interactions in systems that exhibit lasing without inversion (LWI). I demonstrated the NDD-induced super-enhancement of inversionless gain and absorptionless index of refraction, as well as piezophotonic and magnetophotonic switching.

7.     I developed a scheme for the utilization of PBG structures for use in a passive Identify Friend or Foe (IFF) device. I developed numerical simulations of the process.

8.     I contributed to the theory and development of a photonic band edge optical limiter and optical diode. This work was published in the Journal of Applied Physics, my most cited paper, and a patent on the diode was awarded.

9.     I organized an Army-sponsored workshop on the development and applications of photonic band-gap materials (1992), and was co-author on the proceedings. I was technical advisor to the Army in the area of photonic crystals.

10.   I became an internationally recognized expert in the emerging new field of photonic band-gap (PBG) materials. I developed a complete analytical theory of atomic and antenna emission rates in PBG structures. I also studied the radiative properties of emitters near the band edge with application to optical computing and energy storage devices. I studied the anomalous index of refraction in these materials and have developed concepts for ultra-light, ultra-compact optical instruments and laser linear accelerator particle beam devices. I have studied the group velocity properties of photonic crystals and developed a true-time delay line. A patent was granted on this device. I developed a novel concept for a photonic band edge optical limiter.

11.   I published a series of papers that account for cavity effects on atomic emission rates from a manifestly classical point of view, allowing particularly clear insight into the phenomenon. Applications to improved-gain, low-threshold micro laser operation were developed. I conducted an experiment with an instructor and undergraduate students at the University of Alabama at Huntsville that proves the classical nature of apparatus-dependent atomic emission rates. I am considered an internationally recognized expert in the area of cavity quantum electrodynamics.

12.   Co-developer with Professors W. P. Schleich and J. A. Wheeler of a powerful new mathematical method for treating problems in quantum optics. The method, known as interference in phase space, has already proved to be very useful for simplifying calculations in many areas of nonlinear optics. I applied the technique to the study of quantum states of minimal phase noise. Such states have tremendous implications for ultimate quantum limits to the sensitivity to laser gyroscopes. Such gyros are used for navigational purposes and for the detection of gravity waves.

13.   Co-developer with A. O. Barut of a new self-field theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED). Obtained theoretical value for the electronÕs gyromagnetic ratio in a theory where the electromagnetic field is not second quantized. Applied theory to cavity corrections to atomic emission rates and level shifts. Calculated apparatus-dependent effects on electron gyromagnetic ratio and help to settle controversy of the origin of a systematic error in the ultrahigh precision Penning trap measurements of this ratio. Offered an alternative approach to understanding the Unruh effect and the related Hawking radiation from the self-field approach. Also developed a self-field, two-level atom, model that allows laser action and other nonlinear quantum optical effects to be understood from a self-field point of view.

 

Consulting and Committee Membership

Regular reviewer of manuscripts for the journals: Physical Review, Optics Communications, Foundations of Physics, Journal of the Optical Society of America, Journal of the European Optical Society, Journal of Applied Physics, Applied Physics Letters, American Journal of Physics, and Science. In addition I have been a special issue editor for the Journal of the Optical Society of America, Foundations of Physics, the Journal of Modern Optics, and Superlattice Microstructures.

 

Grant Awards and Contract Monitoring and Managing

1.              Boeing Corporation, Ghost Imaging, FY08, $50K, PI.

2.              DARPA Quantum Sensors Program, Quantum LIDAR, FY07–08, $700K, PI.

3.              NRO DII, Photonic Crystals for Satellite Thermal Control, FY06, $400K, Co-I.

4.              ARO-NSA-ARDA Quantum Computation Concept Maturation, FY05-09, $6M, Co-PI.

5.              ARO Multi-Disciplinary University Research Initiative, Quantum Imaging, FY05-00, $5M, Co-PI.

6.              NRO DII Program: Improved Solar Cells Using Photonic Crystals, $350K, FY04, PI.

7.              NRO DII Program: Quantum Atomic Magnetometry, $350K, FY02, Co-I.

8.              ONR Quantum Optics Program, Experimental Quantum Interferometry, $150K/Y, FY03-05, PI.

9.              NSA-ARDA Quantum Computing Program: Theory and Modeling of Linear Optical Quantum Computers, $260K/Y, FY03-05, PI.

10.            Army Research Office, Multi-Disciplinary University Research Initiative, Quantum Imaging, $1M/Y, FY05-10, Co-I.

11.            NASA Intelligent Systems: Quantum Clock Synchronization, $1M, FY01-03, Co-I.

12.            DARPA Advanced Technology Program: Quantum Atomic Gravity Gradiometer, $300K, FY02, Co-I.

13.            DARPA Quantum Information Sciences Program: Quantum Clock Synchronization, $500K, FY01-03, Co-I.

14.            NASA-JPL DirectorÕs Discretionary Funding: Quantum Optical Interferometry, $100K, PI.

15.            National Security Agency: Radio-Frequency Single Electron Transistors and Open Mesoscopic Quantum Systems, $600K, FY01-FY03, PI.

16.            NASA-JPL DirectorÕs Discretionary Funding: Quantum Lithography, $25K, FY01, PI.

17.            NASA-JPL DirectorÕs Research and Development Fund: Quantum Clock Synchronization, $100K, FY02, PI.

18.            NASA-JPL DirectorÕs Research and Development Fund: Artificial Life, $100K, FY02, PI.

19.            NASA Advanced Concepts: Quantum Lithography, $25K, FY01, PI.

20.            NASA Advanced Concepts: Entangled Photon Light Sails, $25K, FY01, PI.

21.            National Reconnaissance Office: Quantum Atomic Gravity Gradiometry, $1.1M, FY01, PI.

22.            NASA Thinking Systems: Quantum Algorithms, $300K, FY00-02, PI.

23.            NASA Revolutionary Computing Technologies and Intelligent Systems: Quantum Algorithms, $600K, FY99-01, PI.

24.            National Reconnaissance Office and Advance Research and Development Activity: Quantum Clock Synchronization, $575K, FY00-01, PI.

25.            National Reconnaissance Office DirectorÕs Innovation Initiative: Coherent Quantum Atomic Gravity Gradiometry for Remote Sensing, $315K, FY00, PI.

26.            Office of Naval Research: Quantum Optical Gyroscopy, $345K, FY99-02, PI.

27.            NASA-JPL DirectorÕs Research and Development Fund: Quantum Accelerometry, $75K, FY02, PI.

28.            NASA-JPL DirectorÕs Research and Development Fund: Quantum Interferometry, $75K, FY99, PI.

29.            AMCOM In-house Laboratory Independent Research Award: Optically Generated Photonic Band Gap Material, $100K, 1997, PI.

30.            AMCOM In-house Laboratory Independent Research Award: Photonic Band Gap Material Microwave Antenna Noise Filter, $100K, 1996, PI.

31.            AMCOM In-house Laboratory Independent Research Award: Photonic Band Edge Optical Diode, $100K, 1995, PI.

32.            AMCOM In-house Laboratory Independent Research Award: Photonic Band Edge Laser, $100K, 1994, PI.

 

Teaching, Advising, Mentoring

 

Courses Taught

PHYS7354, Graduate Atomic and Optical Physics II, Spring 2008.

PHYS7353, Graduate Atomic and Optical Physics I, Fall 2007.

PHYS2102, Undergraduate Electricity and Magnetism for Engineers, Spring 2007, Student Evaluation: 92%

PHYS7241, Quantum Mechanics I, Fall 2006, Student Evaluation: 98%

PHYS7242, Quantum Mechanics II, Spring 2006, Student Evaluation: 96%

PHYS7241, Quantum Mechanics I, Fall 2005, Student Evaluation: 94%

PHYS7242, Quantum Mechanics II, Spring 2005, Student Evaluation: 92%

 

Postdocs

2005–Present: Christoph Wildfeuer

2005–Present: Sulakshana Thanvanthri

2005–Present: Hugo Cable

2005–2006: Kurt Jacobs (Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts)

2005–2007: Gabriel Durkin (Research Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center)

2004–2007: Kishore Kapale (Assistant Professor, Western Illinois University)

2004–2006: M. Ali Can (Assistant Professor, Bilkent University)

2003–2007: Lucia Florescu (Postdoc, University of Pennsylvania)

2003–2007: Marian Florescu (Postdoc, Princeton University)

2001–2003: Robert Gingrich (PIMCO)

2000–2002: Pieter Kok (Assistant Professor at University of Sheffield)

1999–2001: Hwang Lee (Assistant Professor at LSU)

 

Graduate Students

2006–Present: Sean Huver

2006–Present: William Plick

2006–Present: Ryan Glasser

2005–Present: Stephan Olson

2005–Present: Argenis DaSilva

2005–2007: Muxin Han (PhD Student at University of Potsdam)

2005–2007: Ganesh Selvaraj (MS 2007)

2005–2007: Zhanghan Wu (MS 2007, PhD student at Virginia Tech)

2005–2006: Guohui Deng (MS 2007, Industry)

 

Undergraduate Students:

2007–Present: Daniel Lum

2007-Present: Christopher Granier

2007: Gretchen Raterman

2005–Present: Nickolas VanMeter

2001–2002: Andrew Stimpson

2001–2002: Lin Song

2001–2002: Matt Stowe

1998: Christopher Cornelius

1997: Rachel Flynn

1996: Jon Bendickson

 

 

Technical Conferences and Workshops Organized

1.     Session on Quantum Sensors, Physics of Quantum Electronics, Snowbird, Utah, 6–11 January 2008.

2.     LSU-NSF Workshop on Quantum Materials and High-Performance Computing (QMHP), Arlington, Virginia, 16–17 April, 2007.

3.     International Focus Workshop on Linear Optical Quantum Information Processing (LOQuIP), Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 9–12 April, 2006.

4.     Focus Sessions, Topical Group on Quantum Information, 2006 American Physical Society March Meeting, March 13–17, 2006; Baltimore, MD.

5.     Special Session on Optical Approaches to Quantum Information Processing, Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, 9 October 2003.

6.     International Workshop on Quantum Dots for Quantum Computing, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, 6-9 August 2003.

7.     NASA-DoD Workshop on Quantum Imaging and Metrology, Pasadena, California, 13-15 November 2002.

8.     International Workshop on Photonic and Electromagnetic Crystal Structures, University of California, Los Angeles, 28-31 October 2002.

9.     Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Boston, Massachusetts, 24-28 June 2002.

10.   Workshop on Quantum Information Processing at the Winter International Symposium on Information and Communications Technologies, Cancun, Mexico, 5-9 January, 2004,

11.   Southwest Quantum Information and Technology Network Fourth Annual Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, 8-10 March 2002.

12.   International Workshop on Quantum Dots for Quantum Computing, Kochi, Japan, 26-28 January 2002.

13.   7th International Conference on Squeezed States and Uncertainty Relations, Boston, Massachusetts, 4-8 June 2001.

14.   Southwest Quantum Information and Technology Network Annual Meeting, Pasadena, California, 2-4 March 2001.

15.   NASA-DoD Workshop on Quantum Information and Synchronization For Space Applications (QuICSSA), Glendale, California, 25-26 September 2000.

16.   Winter Workshop on Quantum Electronics, Snowbird, Utah, 10-12 January 2000.

17.   Winter Workshop on Quantum Electronics, Snowbird, Utah, 10-12 January 2001.

18.   Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Boston, Massachusetts, 7-14 July 2000.

19.   Winter Workshop on Quantum Electronics, Snowbird, Utah, 10-12 January 2000.

20.   Workshop on Electromagnetic Crystal Structures, Design, Synthesis, and Applications, Laguna Beach, California, 6-8 January 1999.

21.   Army Research Office Workshop on Atom Lasers, Tucson, Arizona, 23-24 January 1997.

22.   Army Research Office Workshop on Quantum Computing and Cryptography, Tucson, Arizona, 15-16 February 1995.

23.   NATO Advance Study Institute on Electron Theory and Quantum Electrodynamics-100 Years Later, Edirne, Turkey, 5-16 September 1994.

24.   ARO Workshop on the Development and Applications of Photonic Band Structures, Park City, Utah, 28-30 January 1992.

 

Publications: Over 140 publications with Over 2,000 Citations and a Hirsch Index of 30

1.              arXiv:0708.3535, Probability, unitarity, and realism in generally covariant quantum information, S. Jay Olson, Jonathan P. Dowling

2.               arXiv:0708.1973, Strong Violations of Bell-type Inequalities for Werner States, Christoph F. Wildfeuer, Jonathan P. Dowling

3.              arXiv:0708.1498, Optimizing Optical Quantum Logic Gates using Genetic Algorithms, Zhanghan Wu, Sean D. Huver, Dmitry Uskov, Hwang Lee, Jonathan P. Dowling

4.              arXiv:0705.1350, Generating Entangled Photons from the Vacuum by Accelerated Measurements: Quantum Information Theory Meets the Unruh-Davies Effect, Muxin Han, S. Jay Olson, Jonathan P. Dowling

5.              Fabio Sciarrino, Chiara Vitelli, Francesco De Martini, Ryan Glasser, Hugo Cable, Jonathan P. Dowling, Experimental sub-Rayleigh resolution by an unseeded high-gain optical parametric amplifier for quantum lithography, Phys. Rev. A 77, 012324 (2008)

6.              Mark M. Wilde, Todd A. Brun, Jonathan P. Dowling, Hwang Lee, Coherent Communication with Linear Optics, Physical Review A 77, 022321 (2008)

7.              VanMeter, NM; Lougovski, P; Uskov, DB; et al., General linear-optical quantum state generation scheme: Applications to maximally path-entangled states, Physical Review A, 76 (6): Art. No. 063808 DEC 2007.

8.              Wildfeuer, CF; Lund, AP; Dowling, JP, Strong violations of Bell-type inequalities for path-entangled number states, Physical Review A, 76 (5): Art. No. 052101 NOV 2007.

9.              Dowling, JP, Quantum optics - Kittens catch phase, Nature, 450 (7168): 362-363 NOV 15 2007

10.            Cable, H; Dowling, JP, Efficient generation of large number-path entanglement using only linear optics and feed-forward, Physical Review Letters, 99 (16): Art. No. 163604 OCT 19 2007

11.            Florescu, M; Lee, H; Puscasu, I; et al., Improving solar cell efficiency using photonic band-gap materials, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 91 (17): 1599-1610 OCT 15 2007

12.            Kapale, KT; Dowling, JP, Bootstrapping approach for generating maximally path-entangled photon states, Physical Review Letters, 99 (5): Art. No. 053602 AUG 3 2007.

13.            Wilde, MM; Spedalieri, F; Dowling, JP; et al., Alternate scheme for optical cluster-state generation without number-resolving photon detectors, International Journal of Quantum Information, 5 (4): 617-626 AUG 2007.

14.            Durkin, GA; Dowling, JP, Local and global distinguishability in quantum interferometry, Physical Review Letters, 99 (7): Art. No. 070801 AUG 17 2007.

15.            Florescu, M; Busch, K; Dowling, JP, Thermal radiation in photonic crystals, Physical Review B, 75 (20): Art. No. 201101 MAY 2007.

16.            Agarwal, GS; Chan, KW; Boyd, RW; et al., Quantum states of light produced by a high-gain optical parametric amplifier for use in quantum lithography, Journal Of The Optical Society Of America B-Optical Physics, 24 (2): 270-274 FEB 2007

17.            Pieter Kok, W.J. Munro, Kae Nemoto, T.C. Ralph, Jonathan P. Dowling, G.J. Milburn, Review article: Linear optical quantum computing, Reviews of Modern Physics 79 (24 JAN 2007) 135–174.

18.            Scheel, S; Florescu, M; Haffner, H; et al., Single photons on demand from tunable 3D photonic band-gap structures, Journal of Modern Optics, 54 (2-3): 409-416 JAN 20 2007.

19.            Jacobs, K; Dowling, JP, Concatenated beam splitters, optical feed-forward, and the nonlinear sign gate, Physical Review A, 74 (6): Art. No. 064304 DEC 2006.

20.            Colin P. Williams, Pieter Kok, Hwang Lee, Jonathan P. Dowling, ÒQuantum lithography: A non-computing application of quantum information,Ó Informatik Forsch. Entw. (2006) 21: 73–82.

21.            Florescu M, Scheel S, Lee H, Knight PL, Dowling JP, Nonlinear tuning of 3D photonic band-gap structures for single-photon on demand sources, Physica E-Low-Dimensional Systems & Nanostructures 32 (1-2): 484-487 MAY 2006.

22.            Dowling J, Gatti A, Sergienko A, Eds., Special Issue: Quantum Imaging, Journal Of Modern Optics 53 (5-6): Mar-Apr 2006.

23.            Guillaume A, Dowling JP, Heisenberg-limited measurements with superconducting circuits, Physical Review A 73 (4): Art. No. 040304 APR 2006.

24.            Dowling JP, Quantum information - To compute or not to compute? Nature 439 (7079): 919-920 FEB 23 2006.

25.            Spedalieri FM, Lee H, Dowling JP, High-fidelity linear optical quantum computing with polarization encoding, Physical Review A 73 (1): Art. No. 012334 JAN 2006.

26.            Kapale KT, Dowling JP, Vortex phase qubit: Generating arbitrary, counterrotating, coherent superpositions in Bose-Einstein condensates via optical angular momentum beams, Physical Review Letters 95 (17): Art. No. 173601 OCT 21 2005.

27.            Spedalieri FM, Lee H, Florescu M, Kapale KT, Yurtsever U, Dowling JP, Exploiting the Quantum Zeno effect to beat photon loss in linear optical quantum information processors, Optics Communications 254 (4-6): 374-379 OCT 15 2005.

28.            Sun QQ, Rostovtsev YV, Dowling JP, Scully MO, Zubairy MS, Optically controlled delays for broadband pulses, Physical Review A 72 (3): Art. No. 031802 SEP 2005.

29.            ÒQuantum Computing, Metrology, and Imaging,Ó Hwang Lee, Pavel Lougovski, Jonathan P. Dowling, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 5842, Fluctuations and Noise in Photonics and Quantum Optics III; Philip R. Hemmer, Julio R. Gea-Banacloche, Peter Heszler, Sr., M. Suhail Zubairy; Eds. (01 May 2005) 21-31 (invited paper).

30.            ÒIon Trap Simulations of Quantum Fields in an Expanding Universe,Ó Paul M. Alsing, Jonathan P. Dowling, Gerard J. Milburn, Physical Review Letters 94 (10 June 2005) 220401 (1 citation).

31.            Florescu M, Scheel S, Haffner HH, Lee H, Strekalov D, Knight PL, Dowling JP, Single photons on demand from 3D photonic band-gap structures, Europhysics Letters 69 (6): 945-951 MAR 2005 (1 citation).

32.            Florescu M, Lee H, Stimpson AJ, and Dowling JP, Thermal emission and absorption of radiation in finite inverted-opal photonic crystals, Physical Review A 72 (3): Art. No. 033821 SEP 2005.

33.            ÒQuantum Interferometric Sensors,Ó Leo D. Domenico, Hwang Lee, Pieter Kok, and Jonathan P. Dowling, Concepts of Physics 2 (2005) 225.