The 4th World Top Scientists Forum (WLF) is just around the corner. This year's WLF will feature nearly thirty top scientists attending for the first time. The WLF public account will introduce them one by one, and today is david wineland, the winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics.
David Varnland and Serge Arosh were awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for "a groundbreaking experimental approach capable of measuring and manipulating individual quantum systems."
Vineland is a Nobel laureate in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Physics Laboratory. His research focuses on quantum state manipulation in atomic and atomic-like systems and is applied to quantum information, including quantum computing and quantum finite metrology.
Major academic achievements: Vineland and his colleagues have gained more control over the properties of individual ions and have experimentally demonstrated many phenomena that once belonged entirely to the bizarre realm of quantum theory. In closely related research, Vineland and his lab team built new, ultra-precise atomic clocks using laser-cooled ions, some of which hold the world's record for accuracy, dating back to his achievements in 1978. Laser-cooled clocks now set the primary time and frequency standards for the world.
Vineland and his team demonstrated the important building blocks of quantum computers that operate using the strange rules of the quantum world and potentially solving problems that are difficult to solve on any computer today. The lab's ability to study and measure quantum phenomena such as superposition and entanglement has direct applications in fundamental physics and advancing NIST's mission of measurement science. In addition, their innovations have many potential applications that go beyond atomic physics, quantum computing, and timing, such as geological surveying, communication, and navigation.