Prof. Dr. Rainer Blatt

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsAtomic Physics, Molecular Physics, Laser Physics
KeywordsQuantenoptik, Quanteninformationsverarbeitung, Physik mit gespeicherten Ionen

Current contact address

CountryAustria
CityInnsbruck
InstitutionUniversität Innsbruck
InstituteInstitut für Experimentalphysik

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Dieter MeschedeInstitut für Angewandte Physik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn
Start of initial sponsorship01/11/2013

Programme(s)

2013Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Blatt has an international reputation as an experimental physicist, particularly as an expert in the field of experiments involving stored ions. These experiments have led to significant advances on the path towards a quantum computer. His contributions to the theory of quantum computing take shape in the lab. His work has, for example, produced the so-called CNOT-gate, a fundamental scientific concept of quantum information with stored ions. Further ground-breaking works in this field include the realisation of algorithms for quantum logic gates and deterministic quantum teleportation with atomic qubits.