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KIMBLE, H. Jeff
Professor, California Institute of Technology
H. Jeff Kimble is the William L. Valentine Professor and Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology, where he is Director of the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter. He completed his doctoral degree in 1977 at the University of Rochester, and then spent two years as a staff scientist at the General Motors Research Laboratories. In 1979, he joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, where he eventually held the Sid Richardson Regents' Chair of Physics before moving to Caltech in 1989. The general areas of his research are quantum information science and the quantum dynamics of open systems, including quantum measurement, cavity quantum electrodynamics, and the realization of quantum networks. Professor Kimble is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, and the Optical Society of America, and is a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences.
ABSTRACT
14:30-16:30 17 NOVEMBER
PLENARY SESSION III. “THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF SCIENCE: “EMERGING FIELDS OF SCIENCE” (THEMATIC APPROACH)
The Quantum Internet
Quantum networks offer opportunities for the exploration of physical systems that have not heretofore existed in the natural world with applications to quantum computation, communication, and metrology. To create a quantum network, quantum information is generated and stored locally in quantum nodes. These nodes are linked by quantum channels that enable quantum teleportation across the network. In this lecture, I will provide an overview of quantum networks from formal to physical and will discuss the prospects for the realization of a rudimentary quantum internet for accomplishing tasks that are impossible within the realm of classical physics.