Wolfgang P. Schleich (born 23 February 1957, in

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, Germany) is professor of

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and director of the quantum physics department at the

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Education, work and career

From 1980 to 1984, Schleich performed work on his diploma thesis and his Ph.D. with Marlan O. Scully at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, with an intermediate research visit at the Institute of Modern Optics,

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from 1982 to 1983. After completion of his Ph.D., he performed post-doctorate research with

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at the Center for Theoretical Physics in

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. From 1986 to 1991, he worked as a research scientist at the

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in Garching under

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. In 1991, Schleich was nominated professor of theoretical physics at the

. Schleich is author of several books, including ''Quantum Optics in Phase Space'' and ''Elements of

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''. His areas of research include the foundations of quantum physics, as well as quantum mechanics in relation to

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and to

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. His recent work includes elaborations on the role of the Wigner function in terms of

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."He ..is the author of the highly acclaimed textbook Quantum Optics in Phase Space. Here he has promoted an approach towards quantum optics based on the Wigner function." Cited from
The 2008 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics
www.lambaward.org

Awards

* 1983:

Otto Hahn Medal The Otto Hahn Medal (german: Otto-Hahn-Medaille) is awarded by the Max Planck Society to young scientists and researchers in both the natural and social sciences. The award takes its name from the German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate Otto Hahn ...

* 1991: Physics Award of the

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* 1993: Ernst Abbe Medal * 1995: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize * 2002: Max Planck Research Award * 2007: First Class Medal of the Czech Technical University in Prague * 2008: Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum OpticsThe 2008 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics
www.lambaward.org * 2008:

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at the

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* 2021: Herbert Walther Award

Publications

* * * * Wolfgang Schleich: ''Optische Tests der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie'', Universität München (Ph.D. thesis) / Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, 1984 * Wolfgang Schleich: ''Quantenfluktuationen in Ringlaser-Gyroskopen'', Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik (Diplom thesis), 1981

References

External links

Schleich, Wolfgang P.
Institut für Quantenphysik, Universität Ulm
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang P. Schleich
Integrated Quantum Systems and Technology
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schleich
Universität Ulm
Wolfgang Schleich
at Symposium on 90th Birthday of 2022

Wigner Medal The International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics is an academic conference devoted to applications of group theory to physics. It was founded in 1972 by Henri Bacry and Aloysio Janner. It hosts a colloquium every two years. Th ...

recipient Iwo Białynicki-Birula {{DEFAULTSORT:Schleich, Wolfgang P. Living people 1957 births Academic staff of the University of Ulm Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni Max Planck Institutes researchers Optical physicists Quantum physicists People from Mühldorf Theoretical physicists 20th-century German physicists 21st-century German physicists University of North Texas faculty