Zachary Dutton

Zachary John Dutton is a physicist who graduated from Lindsay High School in Lindsay CA, and was awarded a BSc in Physics from UC Berkeley in 1996. He was awarded his PhD in theoretical physics at Harvard University in 2000. His doctoral advisor was Prof.Lene Hau for his thesis entitled "Ultra-slow, stopped, and compressed light in Bose–Einstein condensates" [1] He worked on a number of papers with Hau and Cyrus Behroozi, being amongst the first group to stop light completely. He undertook postdoctoral work at NISTGaithersburg with Dr. Charles Clark, prior to becoming a staff physicist at the Naval Research Lab in Washington. He conducted research centred mainly around cold atomic gases, EIT, low light level nonlinear optics, quantum memories, and coherent optical storage.

Dutton took a position at Raytheon BBN Technologies Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2007, where his research continued, and he is currently the manager of the Quantum Information Processing (QuIP)[2] group at Raytheon BBN Technologies. QuIP conducts ongoing research, and has facilities in the following areas:

In 2011, Dutton and colleagues achieved a breakthrough, recorded in "Direct Observation of Coherent Population Trapping in a Superconducting Artificial Atom".[3] The paper describes a physics breakthrough that Dutton predicted in a paper he published in 2004.[4] The work establishes a major advance in quantum information technology with the coupling of light and superconductors,[5] and is the first instance of light being able to co-exist with superconductors. Normally light (photons) is absorbed by superconductors, but Dutton's team discovered that applying a second field at a different frequency can be used to prevent this absorption, making the artificial atom effectively transparent. The United States Department of Defense has granted further research monies to this project "to create tools and methods that integrate all aspects of the quantum computer".[6] Dutton is a prolific researcher with many published papers.

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  1. Doctoral Thesis
  2. "Quantum Information Processing Technologies < Technology Services | Raytheon BBN Technologies".
  3. "Direct Observation of Coherent Population Trapping Superconducting Artificial Atom preview & related info".
  4. "Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: "Raytheon BBN Technologies Achieves Quantum Information Breakthrough"".
  5. "Coherent Population".
  6. "Schrodinger’s Contracts: US Explores Quantum Computing".
  7. "Professional Activities and Awards".
  8. "SPIE | Proceeding | Enhanced optical resolution in target detection with phase-sensitive versus phase-insensitive pre-amplification".
  9. "DSpace@MIT : Quantum-enhanced ladar ranging with squeezed-vacuum injection, phase-sensitive amplification, and slow photodetectors". Dspace.mit.edu. Retrieved 2013-01-29.
  10. "Quantum enhancement of a coherent ladar receiver using phase-sensitive amplification".
  11. "Quantum enhanced lidar resolution with multi-spatial-mode phase sensitive amplification".
  12. "On quantum limit of optical communications: concatenated codes and joint-detection receivers".
  13. "Superadditive Optical Communications with Joint Detection Receivers and Concatenated Coding".
  14. "Information in a Photon When Loss Encodes the Bit".
  15. "LADAR resolution improvement using squeezed‐vacuum injection".
  16. "Spatial dynamics and spin squeezing in Bose-Einstein condensates".
  17. "Demonstration of Bi-Chormatic Channelization Slow Light in Rubidium Vapor".
  18. "Ultra-Slow Light in Bose-Einstein Condensates: Shocking Matter and Transforming Light".
  19. "Slow Light in Zeeman Split Hyperfine Levels of Hot Rb Vapor".
  20. "Liouville-space descriptions for intense-field coherent electromagnetic interactions".
  21. "Slow Light Dynamics in Warm Rubidium Vapor".
  22. "Channelization architecture for wide-band slow light in atomic vapors".
  23. "Anisotropic Expansion of Finite Temperature Bose Gases — Emergence of Interaction Effects Between Condensed and Non-Condensed Atoms".
  24. "Storing and processing optical information with ultraslow light in Bose-Einstein condensates".
  25. "The art of taming light: ultra-slow and stopped light".
  26. "Observation of Quantum Shock Waves Created with Ultra- Compressed Slow Light Pulses in a Bose-Einstein Condensate".
  27. "Observation of coherent optical information storage in an atomic medium using halted light pulses".
  28. "Observation of interaction dynamics in finite-temperature Bose condensed atom clouds".
  29. "Near-resonant spatial images of confined Bose-Einstein condensates in a 4-Dee magnetic Bottle".
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