Carlton M. Caves
| Carl Caves | |
|---|---|
| Born |
24 October 1950 (age 66) Muskogee, Oklahoma |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions |
University of New Mexico Caltech University of Southern California |
| Alma mater |
Rice University Caltech |
| Doctoral advisor | Kip Thorne |
| Doctoral students |
Howard Barnum Sergio Boixo Samuel L. Braunstein Steven Flammia Chris Fuchs Michael Nielsen Joseph Renes |
| Known for | Quantum information |
| Notable awards |
Einstein Prize (1990) Max Born Award (2011) |
Carlton "Carl" Morris Caves is an American physicist. He is currently a Distinguished Professor in Physics and Astronomy at the University of New Mexico. Caves works in the areas of physics of information; information, entropy, and complexity; quantum information theory; quantum chaos, quantum optics; the theory of non-classical light; the theory of quantum noise; and the quantum theory of measurement.
Caves was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, on October 24, 1950, the son of Morris and Mary Caves. After attending public schools in Muskogee, Caves attended Rice University as an undergraduate, receiving a BA in physics and mathematics in 1972. He then was a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology, where he received a PhD in physics in 1979 under Kip Thorne with dissertation Theoretical Investigations of Experimental Gravitation.
After receiving his PhD, Caves continued at Caltech as a Research Fellow in Physics (1979–81) and then as Senior Research Fellow in Theoretical Physics (1982–87). During 1987–92 he was Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering (and Physics from 1989) at the University of Southern California. He moved to Albuquerque in 1992 to become a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of New Mexico (UNM). In 2006 he was promoted to Distinguished Professor, UNM’s highest faculty rank. In 2009 he was appointed the inaugural Director of the Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC), an interdisciplinary center at UNM and the University of Arizona, which investigates and develops a new generation of technologies for controlling the behavior of quantum systems. Caves is best known for his proposal in 1981 that squeezed light injected into the vacuum port of an interferometer can improve the interferometer’s sensitivity for detecting small phase changes. This proposal prompted thirty years of technology development to design squeezed-light sources that can improve the exquisite sensitivity achieved by the very large interferometers that have been constructed to detect gravitational waves from astrophysical events. The squeezed-light technique has been demonstrated in the GEO600 and LIGO gravitational-wave detectors.
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