Jeremy O'Brien

Quick Facts

Intro

Australian physicist

From

Australia

Scientist Physicist

Work field

Science

Gender

Male

Birth

7 November 1975 People who share this birthday

Age

48 years

The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Jeremy O'Brien (born 1975, Australia) is a physicist who researches in quantum optics, optical quantum metrology and quantum information science. As of 2010, he is Professorial Research Fellow in Physics and Electrical Engineering at the University of Bristol, and director of its Centre for Quantum Photonics.
His work in optical quantum computing has included the demonstration of the first optical quantum controlled NOT gate.

Honours and awards

2009 European Quantum Information Young Investigator Award
2010 Adolph Lomb Medal of the Optical Society of America
2010 IUPAP Prize in Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics
2010 Moseley medal and prize of the Institute of Physics
2010 Daiwa Adrian Prize

"QIPC Young Investigator Award 2009". QUROPE (Quantum Information Processing and Communication in Europe). Retrieved 29 May 2010.
"Double honour for Professor O'Brien". University of Bristol. Retrieved 29 May 2010.
"2010 Moseley medal and prize". Institute of Physics. Retrieved 5 July 2010.

Selected publications

O'Brien, JL; Schofield, S. R.; Simmons, M. Y.; Clark, R. G.; Dzurak, A. S.; Curson, N. J.; Kane, B. E.; McAlpine, N. S.; Hawley, M. E.; Brown, G. W. (2001). "Towards the fabrication of phosphorus qubits for a silicon quantum computer". Physical Review B. 64 (16): 161401. arXiv:cond-mat/0104569. Bibcode:2001PhRvB..64p1401O. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.64.161401.
O'Brien, JL; Pryde, GJ; White, AG; Ralph, TC; Branning, D (2003). "Demonstration of an all-optical quantum controlled-NOT gate". Nature. 426 (6964): 264–267. arXiv:quant-ph/0403062. Bibcode:2003Natur.426..264O. doi:10.1038/nature02054. PMID 14628045.
O'Brien, Jeremy L. (2007). "Optical Quantum Computing". Science. 318 (5856): 1567–1570. arXiv:0803.1554. Bibcode:2007Sci...318.1567O. doi:10.1126/science.1142892.
Politi, Alberto; Cryan, Martin J.; Rarity, John G.; Yu, Siyuan; O'Brien, Jeremy L. (2008). "Silica-on-Silicon Waveguide Quantum Circuits". Science. 320 (5876): 646–9. arXiv:0802.0136. Bibcode:2008Sci...320..646P. doi:10.1126/science.1155441. PMID 18369104.
O'Brien, Jeremy L. (2008). "Quantum computing over the rainbow". Physics. 1 (23). Bibcode:2008PhyOJ...1...23O. doi:10.1103/Physics.1.23.