Mikhail Lukin (russian: Михаи́л Дми́триевич Луки́н); born 10 October 1971) is a Russian theoretical and experimental physicist and a professor at
Harvard University.
He was elected a member of the
National Academy of Sciences
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in 2018.
Early life
Lukin was born in Moscow, Russia. He studied physics and mathematics at
MIPT which he graduated in 1993. Following the graduation, he joined
Texas A&M University where he wrote a research paper titled ''Quantum Coherence and Interference in Optics and Laser Spectroscopy'' which he used for his Ph.D.
thesis. Between this and 1994 he was a visiting scientist to
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in
Garching
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Germany. Later on he became a postdoc at Texas A&M University and then became a fellow, and later joint director, of the
Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics a division of
Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian. In 2001 he became an assistant professor at
Harvard
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and three years later became its professor.
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Research
In 2005 he proposed an idea to use quantum computing
Quantum computing is a type of computation whose operations can harness the phenomena of quantum mechanics, such as superposition, interference, and entanglement. Devices that perform quantum computations are known as quantum computers. Though ...
mail rather than Email which is already used by both Harvard and Boston Universities. He and Vladan Vuletic
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experimentally confirmed a new type of matter in which photonic molecule
Photonic molecules are a theoretical natural form of matter which can also be made artificially in which photons bind together to form "molecules". They were first predicted in 2007. Photonic molecules are formed when individual (massless) photons ...
s can be used to create a lightsaber-like technology.
In a 2013 interview with '' The Harvard Crimson'' he explained that he observed the matter the same way as it is in the movies, but unlike the movies the objects don't pass through each other but rather behave like solid objects.
Lukin is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America.
Awards
*2000 The Optical Society of America Adolph Lomb MedalThe Optical Society of America
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Charles Hard Townes Medal for pioneering theoretical and experimental contributions to quantum nonlinear optics and quantum information science and technology, and for the development and application of nanoscale quantum systems for sensing
References
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Mikhail Lukin
1971 births
Living people
Russian physicists
Texas A&M University alumni
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology alumni
Harvard University faculty
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Fellows of the American Physical Society
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