Joseph H. Eberly

Andrew Carnegie Professor of Physics 
Professor of Optics
Director of Rochester Theory Center
Telephone: (585) 275-3288 
e-mail: eberly@pas.rochester.edu

Research Interests

Professor Eberly is a member of the Center for Quantum Information and Director of the Rochester Theory Center for Optical Science and Engineering. His group carries out theoretical research in several areas of quantum optics and AMO science, and among recent results are calculations of single-photon wave functions localized in free space that exhibit the binding effects of quantum memory, an examination of cross-talk in qubit chains, and the derivation of a novel "dark area" theorem that governs nonlocal effects in coupled optical pulses. Themes of interest include quantum information and the dynamics of entanglement in continuous Hilbert spaces, coherent quantum control via counter-intuitive dark-state interactions, soliton and adiabaton propagation, and non-sequential double ionization of atoms exposed to high intensity radiation.

Professor Eberly is a Fellow of APS and OSA and has been Chair of the APS Division of Laser Science. He was Founding Editor of Optics Express, and is currently Chair of the Board of Editors of OSA, and is a member of the OSA Board of Directors, the APS Council, and the AIP Board of Governance.  He has been elected a Foreign Member of the Acad. of Science of Poland, and is a recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award, Penn State College of Science, the Charles Hard Townes Award, the Smoluchowski Medal, a Senior Humboldt Award and a JILA Visiting Fellowship. He is the co-author of the monograph "Optical Resonance and Two-Level Atoms", with L. Allen, as well as the text "Lasers" (9th printing) and the article on "Quantum Optics" in the Encycl. of Science and Technology, both with P.W. Milonni, and the chapter on "Coherent Transients" in the APS Handbook of AMO Physics with C.R. Stroud, Jr. He has written more than 300 research papers and reviews.

Selections from recent publications:

 [1] "Phonon decoherence of quantum entanglement: Robust and fragile states," with Ting Yu, Phys. Rev. B 66, 193306 (2002).

 [2] "Localized Single-Photon Wave Functions in Free Space," with K.W. Chan and C.K. Law, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 100402 (2002).

 [3] "Bell Inequalities in Quantum Mechanics," Am. J. Phys. 70, 276 (2002)

 [4] "Random-Noise Decoherence and Entanglement", with K.W. Chan and C.K. Law, Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, (in press, 2002).

 [5] "Qubit Crosstalk in Heisenberg Spin Chains," with J.S. Pratt, Phys. Rev. B 64, 195314 (2001)

 [6] "Quantum Optics," with P.W. Milonni, in Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, ed. by R. Myers (Academic, 2001).

 [7] "Continuous Frequency Entanglement: Effective Finite Hilbert Space and Entropy Control," with C.K. Law and I.A. Walmsley, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5304 (2000).

 [8] "Strong confinement and oscillations in two-component BEC's," with Q-Han Park, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 4195-4198 (2000).

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