The California Institute of Technology(branded as Caltech) is a private research university in Pasadena,California,United States. The university is responsible for many modern scientific advancements and is among a small group of institutes of technology in the United States that are devoted to the instruction of pure and applied sciences.
Deborah Shiu-lan Jin was an American physicist and fellow with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST);Professor Adjunct,Department of Physics at the University of Colorado;and a fellow of the JILA,a NIST joint laboratory with the University of Colorado.
John Joseph Hopfield is an American physicist and emeritus professor of Princeton University,most widely known for his study of associative neural networks in 1982. He is known for the development of the Hopfield network. Previous to its invention,research in artificial intelligence (AI) was in a decay period or AI winter,Hopfield work revitalized large scale interest in this field.
Quantum annealing (QA) is an optimization process for finding the global minimum of a given objective function over a given set of candidate solutions,by a process using quantum fluctuations. Quantum annealing is used mainly for problems where the search space is discrete with many local minima;such as finding the ground state of a spin glass or solving the traveling salesman problem. The term "quantum annealing" was first proposed in 1988 by B. Apolloni,N. Cesa Bianchi and D. De Falco as a quantum-inspired classical algorithm. It was formulated in its present form by T. Kadowaki and H. Nishimori in 1998,though an imaginary-time variant without quantum coherence had been discussed by A. B. Finnila,M. A. Gomez,C. Sebenik and J. D. Doll in 1994.
Arthur Michael Jaffe is an American mathematical physicist at Harvard University,where in 1985 he succeeded George Mackey as the Landon T. Clay Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Science.
D-Wave Quantum Systems Inc. is a quantum computing company with locations in Palo Alto,California and Burnaby,British Columbia. D-Wave claims to be the world's first company to sell computers that exploit quantum effects in their operation. D-Wave's early customers include Lockheed Martin,the University of Southern California,Google/NASA,and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
A superinsulator is a material that at low but finite temperatures does not conduct electricity,i.e. has an infinite resistance so that no electric current passes through it. The phenomenon of superinsulation can be regarded as an exact dual to superconductivity.
Nicholas Harrison FRSC FinstP is an English theoretical physicist known for his work on developing theory and computational methods for discovering and optimising advanced materials. He is the Professor of Computational Materials Science in the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London where he is co-director of the Institute of Molecular Science and Engineering.
John Francis Clauser is an American theoretical and experimental physicist known for contributions to the foundations of quantum mechanics,in particular the Clauser–Horne–Shimony–Holt inequality. Clauser was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics,jointly with Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger "for experiments with entangled photons,establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science".
Michael Lee Roukes is an American experimental physicist,nanoscientist,and the Frank J. Roshek Professor of Physics,Applied Physics,and Bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
Piers Coleman is a British-born theoretical physicist,working in the field of theoretical condensed matter physics. Coleman is professor of physics at Rutgers University in New Jersey and at Royal Holloway,University of London.
Philip H. Bucksbaum is an American atomic physicist,the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science in the Departments of Physics,Applied Physics,and Photon Science at Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He also directs the Stanford PULSE Institute.
Christopher Roy Monroe is an American physicist and engineer in the areas of atomic,molecular,and optical physics and quantum information science,especially quantum computing. He directs one of the leading research and development efforts in ion trap quantum computing. Monroe is the Gilhuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics at Duke University and is College Park Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland and Fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute and Joint Center for Quantum Computer Science. He is also co-founder of IonQ,Inc.
Gabriel Aeppli is a Swiss-American electrical engineer,co-founder of the London Centre for Nanotechnology,professor of physics at ETH Zürich and EPF Lausanne,and head of the Synchrotron and Nanotechnology department of the Paul Scherrer Institute,also in Switzerland.
Brent Fultz is an American physicist and materials scientist and one of the world's leading authorities on statistical mechanics,diffraction,and phase transitions in materials. Fultz is the Barbara and Stanley Rawn Jr. Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science at the California Institute of Technology. He is known for his research in materials physics and materials chemistry,and for establishing the importance of phonon entropy to the phase stability of materials. Additionally,Fultz oversaw the construction of the wide angular-range chopper spectrometer (ARCS) instrument at the Spallation Neutron Source and has made advances in phonon measuring techniques.
The Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) is the first school of engineering at the University of Chicago. It was founded as the Institute for Molecular Engineering in 2011 by the university in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory. When the program was raised to the status of a school in 2019,it became the first school dedicated to molecular engineering in the United States. It is named for a major benefactor,the Pritzker Foundation.
Warwick Bowen is an Australian quantum physicist and nanotechnologist at The University of Queensland. He leads the Quantum Optics Laboratory,is Director of the UQ Precision Sensing Initiative and is one of three Theme Leaders of the Australian Centre for Engineered Quantum Systems.
Larry A. Curtiss is an American chemist and researcher. He was born in Madison. WI. in 1947. He is a distinguished fellow and group leader of the Molecular Materials Group in the Materials Science Division at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory. In addition,Curtiss is a senior investigator in the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR),a DOE Energy Storage Hub,and was the deputy director of the Center for Electrochemical Energy Science,a DOE Energy Frontier Research Center.
Katherine T. Faber is an American materials scientist and one of the world's foremost experts in ceramic engineering,material strengthening,and ultra-high temperature materials. Faber is the Simon Ramo Professor of Materials Science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). She was previously the Walter P. Murphy Professor and department chair of Materials Science and Engineering at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University.
John F. Mitchell is an American chemist and researcher. He is the deputy director of the materials science division at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and leads Argonne's Emerging Materials Group.
