David Jeffrey Wineland (born February 24, 1944) is an
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National Institute of Standards and Technology
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physics
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laboratory. His work has included advances in optics, specifically laser-cooling trapped ions and using ions for quantum-computing operations. He was awarded the 2012
Nobel Prize in Physics
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, jointly with
Serge Haroche
Serge Haroche (born 11 September 1944) is a French-Moroccan physicist who was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics jointly with David J. Wineland for "ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual q ...
, for "ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems".
Early life and career
Wineland was born in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. He lived in Denver until he was three years old, at which time his family moved to
Sacramento, California
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University of California, Davis
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. He received his bachelor's degree in physics from the
University of California, Berkeley
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in 1965 and his master's and doctoral degrees in physics from
Harvard University
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. He completed his PhD in 1970, supervised by Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. His doctoral dissertation is titled "The Atomic Deuterium Maser". He then performed postdoctoral research in
Hans Dehmelt
Hans Georg Dehmelt (; 9 September 1922 – 7 March 2017) was a German and American physicist, who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989, for co-developing the ion trap technique ( Penning trap) with Wolfgang Paul, for which they shared one ...
's group at the
University of Washington
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where he investigated electrons in
ion trap
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s. In 1975, he joined the National Bureau of Standards (now called NIST), where he started the ion storage group and is on the physics faculty of the
University of Colorado at Boulder
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. In January 2018, Wineland moved to the Department of Physics
University of Oregon
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as a Knight Research Professor, while still being engaged with the Ion Storage Group at NIST in a consulting role.
Wineland was the first to laser-cool ions in 1978. His NIST group uses trapped ions in many experiments on fundamental physics, and quantum state control. They have demonstrated optical techniques to prepare ground, superposition and entangled states. This work has led to advances in spectroscopy,
atomic clock
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s and quantum information. In 1995 he created the first single atom quantum logic gate and was the first to quantum teleport information in massive particles in 2004. Wineland implemented the most precise atomic clock using quantum logic on a single aluminum ion in 2005.
Wineland is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Optical Society, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992. He shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics with French physicist
Serge Haroche
Serge Haroche (born 11 September 1944) is a French-Moroccan physicist who was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics jointly with David J. Wineland for "ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual q ...
"for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems."
Family
Wineland is married to Sedna Quimby-Wineland, and they have two sons.
Sedna Helen Quimby is the daughter of George I. Quimby (1913-2003), an archaeologist and anthropologist, who was Professor of Anthropology at the
University of Washington
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and Director of the Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, and his wife Helen Ziehm Quimby.
William F. Meggers Award The William F. Meggers Award has been awarded annually since 1970 by the Optical Society (originally called the Optical Society of America) for outstanding contributions to spectroscopy.
Recipients
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See also
* List of physics awards
Refe ...
Einstein Prize for Laser Science
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of the Society of Optical and Quantum Electronics (awarded at ''Lasers'' '96)
* 1998 Rabi Award from the
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National Medal of Science
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Peter Zoller
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Nobel Prize in Physics
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, shared with
Serge Haroche
Serge Haroche (born 11 September 1944) is a French-Moroccan physicist who was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics jointly with David J. Wineland for "ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual q ...
* 2014 Golden Plate Award of the
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Appearances
Wineland was a keynote speaker at the 2015 Congress of Future Science and Technology Leaders.
See also
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Cat state In quantum mechanics, the cat state, named after Schrödinger's cat, is a quantum state composed of two diametrically opposed conditions ''at the same time'', such as the possibilities that a cat is alive and dead at the same time.
Generalizing S ...
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Doppler cooling
Doppler cooling is a mechanism that can be used to trap and slow the motion of atoms to cool a substance. The term is sometimes used synonymously with laser cooling, though laser cooling includes other techniques.
History
Doppler cooling was si ...
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Resolved sideband cooling Resolved sideband cooling is a laser cooling technique allowing cooling of tightly bound atoms and ions beyond the Doppler cooling limit, potentially to their motional ground state. Aside from the curiosity of having a particle at zero point energy, ...
Quantum Zeno effect
The quantum Zeno effect (also known as the Turing paradox) is a feature of quantum-mechanical systems allowing a particle's time evolution to be slowed down by measuring it frequently enough with respect to some chosen measurement setting.
Somet ...