Joseph H. Eberly

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Joseph H. Eberly
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Eberly in 1994
Born (1935-10-19) October 19, 1935 (age 89)
Alma mater Pennsylvania State University
Stanford University
Known for
Scientific career
Fields Theoretical physics, Quantum optics
Institutions University of Rochester
Thesis Black-body distribution law in semi-classical radiation theory.  (1962)
Doctoral advisor E. T. Jaynes
Doctoral students
Other notable students Peter Knight

Joseph Henry Eberly (born October 19, 1935), is an American physicist. He is a Professor of Physics, Astronomy and Optics at the University of Rochester. [1] [2]

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Early life and education

Joseph Henry Eberly was born in 1935. He completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics at Pennsylvania State University in 1957 and obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in Physics at Stanford University in 1962. His doctoral advisor during his PhD program was Edwin Thompson Jaynes, which helped him connect with Eugene Wigner. [3]

Work

Eberly's research interests include Cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED), quantum information, control of non-classical entanglement, the response of atoms to high-intensity optical pulses, and coherent control theory of optical interactions. [4] In 1995, he founded the Rochester Theory Center for Optical Science and Engineering (RTC) with funding from the National Science Foundation. [4]

Eberly contributed to understanding the quantum revival in the Jaynes-Cummings model. [5] In a 1966 paper on electron self-energy, he revealed aspects of the Higgs mechanism in electrodynamics, demonstrating how massless particles can acquire mass through interaction with the Higgs field. [6] Additionally, Eberly has studied atomic vapor laser isotope separation. [7] [8]

In 2003, he discovered the phenomenon of crystallization in time for highly excited states of atoms. This phenomenon shows the existence of fermion densities that are perpetually and perfectly periodic in time, and is comparable to the anomalous conductivity improvement in the Kondo effect. [9]

He made early predictions of the phenomenon of the Above Threshold Ionization (ATI) and the highly energetic electron emissions in one-dimensional atom models. He also observed a similar phenomenon in the emission of highly energetic deuterium nuclei from the ultra-cold strong laser driven deuterium droplet clusters. [ edition needed ] These clusters are considered alike to giant atom with deuterons acting as heavy electrons, and the electrons acting as their gluons or nucleus. Eberly also observed the cold-hot nuclear fusion in such systems. [10]

Awards and recognition

Eberly has received the Charles Hard Townes Award, [11] the Smoluchowski Medal and the Senior Humboldt Award. [12] In 2007, he served as the president of The Optical Society of America. [13] In recognition of his work on the theory of electron localization in atoms and molecules, he was honored with the Frederic Ives Medal in 2010, [14] the highest award granted by The Optical Society of America. In 2012, the Society recognized his many years of service with the Distinguished Service Award. [13] In 2021, he was appointed as an honorary member of Optica (formerly The Optical Society of America). [15]

Eberly has longstanding research connections with Poland, publishing several papers with Polish physicist Adam Kujawski in the 1960s and 1970s. [16] [17] [18] He has maintained a frequent scientific collaboration with 2022 Wigner Medal recipient Iwo Białynicki-Birula and was elected as a foreign member of the Academy of Sciences of Poland. [19] Eberly has also co-authored multiple publications with Kazimierz Rzazewski, who served as both his M.Sc. and Ph.D. supervisor. [ citation needed ] Their collaboration led to the discovery that the superradiant phase transition, originally observed at the University of Rochester, necessitates the existence of an “extraterrestrial” ether with a real and negative dielectric constant in the quantum vacuum. [ citation needed ] This finding challenged the notion that classical electromagnetic gauge fields alone could cause such a phase transition, aligning with the electromagnetic version of the Bohr-van Leeuwen theorem. [20]

Publications

Eberly has published over 350 scientific journal articles, as well as other scientific papers. He has also authored three graduate textbooks. [21]

Selected publications

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  2. ↑ "Joseph H. Eberly (1935 - )". urresearch.rochester.edu. Retrieved 2024-09-13.
  3. ↑ "The Institute of Optics". sas.rochester.edu. Archived from the original on 2023-04-29. Retrieved 2023-12-12.
  4. 1 2 Faculty page at the University of Rochester.
  5. ↑ J.H. Eberly; N.B. Narozhny; J.J. Sanchez-Mondragon (1980). "Periodic spontaneous collapse and revival in a simple quantum model". Phys. Rev. Lett. 44 (20): 1323–1326. Bibcode:1980PhRvL..44.1323E. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.44.1323.
  6. ↑ Eberly, Joseph H.; Reiss, Howard R. (1966-05-27). "Electron Self-Energy in Intense Plane-Wave Field". Physical Review. 145 (4): 1035–1040. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.145.1035. ISSN   0031-899X.
  7. ↑ F. J. Duarte (2016). "Tunable laser atomic vapor laser isotope separation". In F. J. Duarte (ed.). Tunable Laser Applications (3rd ed.). Boca Raton: CRC Press. pp. 371–384. ISBN   9781482261066.
  8. ↑ J. R. Ackerhalt and J. H. Eberly, Coherence versus incoherence in stepwise laser excitation of atoms and molecules, Phys. Rev. A 14, 1705 (1976).
  9. ↑ Chan, K. W.; Law, C. K.; Eberly, J. H. (2003-08-27). "Quantum entanglement in photon-atom scattering". Physical Review A. 68 (2). doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.68.022110. ISSN   1050-2947.
  10. ↑ T. Ditmire, J. Zweiback, V. P. Yanovsky. T. E. Cowan. G. Hays and K. B. Wharton, Nuclear fusion from explosions of femtosecond laser-heated deuterium clusters, Nature 398, 6727 (1999)
  11. ↑ "OSA Prize Winners Reflect a Wide Range of Achievements". Physics Today. 47 (6): 89–90. 1994-06-01. doi:10.1063/1.2808540. ISSN   0031-9228.
  12. ↑ Recipients of the Smoluchowski Medal.
  13. 1 2 Biography from The Optical Society of America.
  14. ↑ Recipients of Frederic Ives Medal / Quinn Prize
  15. ↑ Joseph Eberly honored as a 'true visionary' in Optics.
  16. ↑ Kujawski, A.; Eberly, J. H. (1978). Mandel, Leonard; Wolf, Emil (eds.). "On Solutions Describing Self-Induced Transparency of Ultra-Short Pulses". Coherence and Quantum Optics IV. Boston, MA: Springer US: 989–997. doi:10.1007/978-1-4757-0665-9_98. ISBN   978-1-4757-0665-9.
  17. ↑ Eberly, J. H.; Kujawski, A. (1967-04-10). "Statistical homogeneity, isotropy, and time-stationarity". Physics Letters A. 24 (8): 426–428. doi:10.1016/0375-9601(67)90220-4. ISSN   0375-9601.
  18. ↑ Leading Eberly's collaborator from Poland Iwo Bialynicki-Birula granted Wigner Medal for co-discoveries
  19. ↑ "Division III: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences".
  20. ↑ I. Bialynicki-Birula and K. Rza̧żewski, No-go theorem concerning the superradiant phase transition in atomic systems, Phys. Rev. A 19, 301, (1979).
  21. ↑ "Joseph H. Eberly - Publications". academictree.org. Archived from the original on 2022-04-27. Retrieved 2022-04-27.
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