Klaus Mølmer is a Danish physicist who is currently a professor at the

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of the

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. From 2000 to 2022, he was a professor of physics at the

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. In 1999, Mølmer and Anders Sørensen proposed the

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for trapped ion quantum computing, which was one of the first proposals for the implementation of a multi-qubit gate on a physical system. Mølmer was awarded the status of Fellow in the

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, after he was nominated by their Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics in 2008, for ''his outstanding and insightful contributions to theoretical

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and quantum atom optics, including the development of novel computational methods to treat open systems in

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and theoretical proposals for the quantum logic gates with trapped ions.''

Awards

Mølmer has been awarded several prizes, some of which are listed below. * Dirac Medal, University of New South Wales, 2023. * Villum Kann Rasmussens Årslegat 2012. * Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), 2008. * The EliteForsk Award of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Denmark, 2007. * Rigmor og Carl Holst-Knudens Videnskabspris (University of Aarhus biennial Research Award) 2004. * Biennial Award of the Danish Physical Society, NKT's forsker pris. 1999. * Annual Award of the Danish Optical Society, DOPS-prisen. 1998. * Rømer Fondets Legat. 1995. * PhD Award from the Danish Academy for Natural Sciences. 1993.

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