Joseph Henry Eberly is the Professor of Physics and Professor of Optics at the

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Education

Eberly earned his bachelor's degree from

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in 1957 and his Ph.D. in Physics from

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in 1962.

Work

Eberly's research interests focus on: cavity QED; quantum information and control of non-classical entanglement (including sudden death and sudden birth of entanglement); response of atoms to high-intensity optical pulses; coherent control theory of optical interactions, including soliton and adiabaton propagation.Faculty page
at the University of Rochester. In 1995, with funding from the National Science Foundation, he founded the Rochester Theory Center for Optical Science and Engineering (RTC). The Center, under Eberly's directorship, provides postdoctoral training in frontier areas of optical science and technology to selected young Ph.D. theorists from U.S. universities. Eberly's early discovery of the full

quantum revival In quantum mechanics, the quantum revival is a periodic recurrence of the quantum wave function from its original form during the time evolution either many times in space as the multiple scaled fractions in the form of the initial wave function (f ...

in the Jaynes-Cummings model which is a kind of

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of the quantum system after a very long time as the physically measurable non-thermodynamical example of the quantum

Poincaré recurrence theorem In mathematics and physics, the Poincaré recurrence theorem states that certain dynamical systems will, after a sufficiently long but finite time, return to a state arbitrarily close to (for continuous state systems), or exactly the same as (for ...

in the finite time limit has a striking consequences on the theory of the quantum

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in unitary universe and the theory of life self-creation and probability of alien life. In one of his first papers "Electron Self-Energy in Intense Plane-Wave Field” in Physical Review in 1966 he independently implicitly discovered in electrodynamics the

Higgs mechanism In the Standard Model of particle physics, the Higgs mechanism is essential to explain the generation mechanism of the property "mass" for gauge bosons. Without the Higgs mechanism, all bosons (one of the two classes of particles, the other bein ...

i.e. how the massless particles field can gain the mass through the interaction with the Higgs field - the laser field if the Dirac field was the massless gauge field. Eberly is also recognized as a pioneer in the theory of

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. In 2003 he discovered the phenomenon of crystallization in time for the highly exited states of atoms i.e. in analogy to the anomalous improvement of the conductivity with the temperature in

Kondo effect In physics, the Kondo effect describes the scattering of conduction electrons in a metal due to magnetic impurities, resulting in a characteristic change i.e. a minimum in electrical resistivity with temperature. The cause of the effect was fir ...

by coherent "heating" not cooling the system or with respect to the defined energy level by showing the existence of fermion densities in atoms eternally and perfectly periodic in time instead of the space and without any external fields as the Rutherford atom in true quantum theory.

Awards and recognition

Eberly has been the recipient of the

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Award, the Smoluchowski

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and the Senior Humboldt Award. He was the president of the

Optical Society of America Optica (formerly known as The Optical Society (OSA) and before that as the Optical Society of America) is a professional society of individuals and companies with an interest in optics and photonics. It publishes journals and organizes conference ...

in 2007. For his outstanding contributions in the theory of electron localization in atoms and molecules he was awarded in 2010 the

Frederic Ives Medal The Frederic Ives Medal is the highest award of the Optical Society, recognizing overall distinction in optics. The prize was established in 1928 by Herbert E. Ives in honor of his father, Frederic Ives. Initially awarded every two years, it has bee ...

, the highest award of the Optical Society of America and in 2021 he became the Honorary Member of the OSA successor Optica. He has strong research ties to Poland that started from sharing his office with Polish physicist Adam Kujawski in the 60s, continued with longtime scientific collaboration with Iwo Bialynicki-Birula and culminated in becoming a Foreign Member of the Academy of Sciences of Poland. He also has multiple publications with Kazimierz Rzazewski, both the MSc and the PhD supervisor of

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who pointed out that the

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originally discovered at the University of Rochester is physically not possible without an "extraterrestrial"

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with both the real and negative

dielectric constant The relative permittivity (in older texts, dielectric constant) is the permittivity of a material expressed as a ratio with the electric permittivity of a vacuum. A dielectric is an insulating material, and the dielectric constant of an insulat ...

filling the quantum vacuum which is less than one because the classical electromagnetic gauge fields can be always eliminated from the statistical sum totally and therefore cannot cause any phase transition (electromagnetic version of Bohr–van Leeuwen theorem).

Publications

Eberly has published more than 300 scientific journal articles and other

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. He has co-written two textbooks and has contributed chapters to many more. * ''L. Allen and J.H. Eberly, Optical Resonance and Two-Level Atoms. 1987. .'' * ''

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and J.H. Eberly, Lasers. 1988. .'' * ''Sudden Death of Entanglement by Ting Yu and J. H. Eberly
Science 30 January 2009: Vol. 323. no. 5914, pp. 598 - 601
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References

External links

Past Presidents of the Optical Society of AmericaOptics and Photonics News interview with Prof. J. H. EberlyProf. J. H. Eberly on the history and importance of the paperless modern dynamic and possibly interactive multimedia interconnected network publishing in pioneering Optics ExpressProf. J. H. Eberly about the NAVY military research genesis of his science career in the movie interview
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