Jonathan Dowling

Jonathan P. Dowling (3 April 1955 – 5 June 2020) was an Irish-American researcher and professor in theoretical physics, known for his work on quantum technology, particularly for exploiting quantum entanglement (in the form of a NOON state) for applications to quantum metrology, quantum sensing, and quantum imaging.

For the American football player, see Jonathan Dowling (American football).

Jonathan P. Dowling
Dowling in 2010
Born(1955-04-03)3 April 1955
Smithtown, New York
Died5 June 2020(2020-06-05) (aged 65)[1]
NationalityIrish, American
Alma materUniversity of Colorado at Boulder
Known forQuantum Optics, Quantum technology
AwardsWillis Lamb Medal
Scientific career
FieldsPhysicist
InstitutionsLouisiana State University
Doctoral advisorAsim Orhan Barut

Career

Dowling obtained a PhD in 1988 from the University of Colorado-Boulder.[2] He worked at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics,[3] the United States Army Aviation and Missile Command,[4] the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,[5] and the Louisiana State University.[2]

Dowling was one of the founders of the US Government program in quantum computing and quantum cryptography.[6]

Dowling was the co-director of the Horace Hearne Institute for Theoretical Physics and a Hearne chair in theoretical physics at the department of physics and astronomy, both at Louisiana State University.

Research

Dowling authored scientific publications in quantum electrodynamics, quantum optics, and quantum technology. At the time of his death, his publications had been cited over 20,200 times, with a Hirsch index of 64.[7]

Dowling published papers are on the topics of Linear optical quantum computing,[8] quantum lithography,[9] optical switching in photonic crystals,[10] and the photonic band-edge laser.[11] Dowling also researched the quantum theory of atomic spontaneous emission and other quantum electrodynamics effects in optical micro-cavities and photonic crystals,[12] as well as optical quantum computing,[13] quantum metrology, quantum imaging,[14] and quantum sensing.[15]

Awards and recognition

Publications

Dowling is the author of a popular science book, "Schrödinger's Killer App – Race to Build the World's First Quantum Computer".[23] A story in this book about early motivations for funding quantum computing by the United States military was illustrated by Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal following his death.[24] Additionally, this book formulated what is known as the Dowling-Neven Law,[25] regarding the classical cost of simulating quantum computers growing doubly exponentially in time, given that the number of qubits on current quantum computers is currently growing exponentially with time. The first book's sequel, "Schrödinger’s Web: Race to Build the Quantum Internet", has been released posthumously.[26]

Dowling co-authored a 2003 paper which predicted a boom in quantum technologies.[27]

References
  1. "In Memory Of Professor Jonathan Dowling". Inside Quantum Technology. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  2. Louisiana State University (LSU). "Jonathan Dowling". Lsu.edu. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  3. Barut, A. O.; Dowling, Jonathan P. (1990). "Self-field quantum electrodynamics: The two-level atom". Physical Review A. 41 (5): 2284–2294. Bibcode:1990PhRvA..41.2284B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.41.2284. PMID 9903354.
  4. Dowling, Jonathan P.; Scalora, Michael; Bloemer, Mark J.; Bowden, Charles M. (1994). "The photonic band edge laser: A new approach to gain enhancement". Journal of Applied Physics. 75 (4): 1896–1899. Bibcode:1994JAP....75.1896D. doi:10.1063/1.356336.
  5. "Info" (PDF). trs.jpl.nasa.gov/bitstream. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  6. "Quantum computing and communications," by Michael Brooks (London, Springer, 1999), page 107, Quote from this book: "Although this is not widely known, the American NSA-ARO-DARPA research programme in quantum computing was kindled, indirectly, by European speakers and communicated to the US funding agencies by Jon Dowling who was, at the time, a physicist in the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command.... Jon had attended the 1994 IQEC and ICAP meeting where British Telecom revealed their transmission of a quantum cryptographic key over 10km of optical fiber, and Artur Ekert announced Shor's discovery of the factoring algorithm, respectively. Upon making these breakthroughs known to the Army Research Office, it was decided to have an ARO workshop on quantum cryptography and quantum computing in Tucson in the winter of 1995. Many of the key researchers in quantum computing were at this workshop, as well as Keith Miller and others from the National Security Agency (NSA). This workshop was the genesis of the ARO-NSA collaboration on the promotion of quantum computing research." http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/901463471
  7. Dowling's Google Scitations https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3YObZBIAAAAJ&hl=en
  8. Kok, Pieter; Munro, W. J.; Nemoto, Kae; Ralph, T. C.; Dowling, Jonathan P.; Milburn, G. J. (2007). "Linear optical quantum computing with photonic qubits" (PDF). Reviews of Modern Physics. 79 (1): 135–174. arXiv:quant-ph/0512071. Bibcode:2007RvMP...79..135K. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.79.135. S2CID 119335959.
  9. Boto, Agedi N.; Kok, Pieter; Abrams, Daniel S.; Braunstein, Samuel L.; Williams, Colin P.; Dowling, Jonathan P. (25 September 2000). "Quantum Interferometric Optical Lithography: Exploiting Entanglement to Beat the Diffraction Limit". Physical Review Letters. 85 (13): 2733–2736. arXiv:quant-ph/9912052. Bibcode:2000PhRvL..85.2733B. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.85.2733. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 10991220. S2CID 7373285.
  10. Scalora, Michael; Dowling, Jonathan P.; Bowden, Charles M.; Bloemer, Mark J. (5 September 1994). "Optical Limiting and Switching of Ultrashort Pulses in Nonlinear Photonic Band Gap Materials". Physical Review Letters. American Physical Society (APS). 73 (10): 1368–1371. Bibcode:1994PhRvL..73.1368S. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.73.1368. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 10056775.
  11. Dowling, Jonathan P.; Scalora, Michael; Bloemer, Mark J.; Bowden, Charles M. (15 February 1994). "The photonic band edge laser: A new approach to gain enhancement". Journal of Applied Physics. AIP Publishing. 75 (4): 1896–1899. Bibcode:1994JAP....75.1896D. doi:10.1063/1.356336. ISSN 0021-8979.
  12. Dowling, Jonathan P.; Bowden, Charles M. (1 July 1992). "Atomic emission rates in inhomogeneous media with applications to photonic band structures". Physical Review A. American Physical Society (APS). 46 (1): 612–622. Bibcode:1992PhRvA..46..612D. doi:10.1103/physreva.46.612. ISSN 1050-2947. PMID 9907901.
  13. Kok, Pieter; Munro, W. J.; Nemoto, Kae; Ralph, T. C.; Dowling, Jonathan P.; Milburn, G. J. (24 January 2007). "Linear optical quantum computing with photonic qubits" (PDF). Reviews of Modern Physics. American Physical Society (APS). 79 (1): 135–174. arXiv:quant-ph/0512071. Bibcode:2007RvMP...79..135K. doi:10.1103/revmodphys.79.135. ISSN 0034-6861. S2CID 119335959.
  14. Lee, Hwang; Kok, Pieter; Williams, Colin P; Dowling, Jonathan P (28 July 2004). "From linear optical quantum computing to Heisenberg-limited interferometry". Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics. IOP Publishing. 6 (8): S796–S800. arXiv:quant-ph/0312169. Bibcode:2004JOptB...6S.796L. doi:10.1088/1464-4266/6/8/026. ISSN 1464-4266. S2CID 5701971.
  15. Concepts in Physics 2, 225 (2005) .
  16. "Fellows" (PDF). www.aaas.org. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  17. "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org.
  18. "2006 Fellows - Awards & Grants | The Optical Society".
  19. "The 2002 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics". www.lambaward.org.
  20. Louisiana State University (LSU). "LSU Faculty Awards 2012 | LSU Academic Affairs". Lsu.edu. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  21. Louisiana State University (LSU). "Awards". Lsu.edu. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  22. Louisiana State University (LSU) (24 April 2017). "2017 Annual Physics & Astronomy Awards Ceremony | Department of Physics & Astronomy". Lsu.edu. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  23. P., Dowling, Jonathan (7 May 2013). Schrödinger's killer app: race to build the world's first quantum computer. Boca Raton. ISBN 9781439896730. OCLC 746838207.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  24. "Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Jonathan Dowling". www.smbc-comics.com. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  25. Franson, James; Wilde, Mark (12 August 2020). "Jonathan Patrick Dowling in memoriam". Nature Photonics. 14 (9): 525–526. Bibcode:2020NaPho..14..525F. doi:10.1038/s41566-020-0682-1. S2CID 225489566. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
  26. Taylor & Francis Group: Schrödinger's Web: Race to Build the Quantum Internet.
  27. "Quantum technology: the second quantum revolution," by Jonathan P. Dowling & Gerard J. Milburn; Published 15 August 2003; DOI:10.1098/rsta.2003.1227
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