Carlton M. Caves
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Doctoral advisor | Kip Thorne |
Doctoral students | Sergio Boixo Samuel L. Braunstein Michael Nielsen |
Carlton Morris Caves is an American theoretical physicist. He is currently professor emeritus and research professor of physics and astronomy
at the University of New Mexico.[1] Caves works in the areas of
physics of information; information,
Background and education
Caves was born in
Career
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
Caves is best known for his proposal
Caves has made seminal contributions to the theory of continuous measurements in
The infamous quote "Hilbert space is a big place!" is attributed to Caves in a paper on quantum information.[10]
Caves is the author of over 140 scientific papers on these and other topics. His present research is concentrated on
In addition to his interest in quantum physics, Caves has also criticized J. Richard Gott’s use of a temporal Copernican principle to predict the future duration of a phenomenon based only knowing the phenomenon’s present age.[2][11]
Family and other interests
Caves has two siblings, Douglas W. Caves of Madison, Wisconsin, and Linda L. Archer of Greensboro, North Carolina. Caves married Karen L. Kahn on 3 June 1984. They reside in Albuquerque, where Kahn is a partner at the law firm of Modrall Sperling. They have two children: Jeremy Caves Rugenstein, an assistant professor in the department of geosciences at Colorado State University,[12] and Eleanor Caves, currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Exeter[13] and, beginning August 2022, an assistant professor in the department of ecology, evolution, and marine biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[14] In addition to his scientific interests, Caves is an avid bird-watcher and an ardent environmentalist. He was formerly a member of the board of Audubon, New Mexico, and chair of the board's conservation committee.[15]
Awards and honors
- 1972–75 — National Science Foundation (NSF) Predoctoral Fellow
- 1976–77 — Richard P. Feynman Fellowship (as a PhD student)
- 1976 — inaugural recipient of the Öcsi Bácsi “Deeply Dedicated to Physics” Award
- 1990 — (with Daniel Walls) Einstein Prize for Laser Sciencefrom the Society for Optical and Quantum Electronics
- 2004 — elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society[3]
- 2008 — elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science[4]
- 2011 — Optical Society of America
- 2018 — Quantum Communication Award, International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing (QCMC) [16]
- 2020 — elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences[5]
- 2020 — Micius Quantum Prize for "his foundational work on quantum metrology and quantum information theory, especially for elucidating the fundamental noise in interferometers and its suppression with the use of squeezed states."[17]
See also
References
- ^ "Carlton M. Caves". UNM Physics and Astronomy Faculty and Staff Directory. Archived from the original on 19 April 2012. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
- ^ a b Glanz, James (8 February 2000). "ESSAY; Point, Counterpoint and the Duration of Everything". The New York Times. p. 5. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
- ^ a b "APS Fellowship". American Physical Society. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
- ^ a b "Elected Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science". Retrieved 2021-07-05.
- ^ a b "2020 NAS Election". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
- .
- ^ Castelvecchi, Davide (2019-04-02). "Gravitational-wave hunt restarts — with a quantum boost". Nature. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
- S2CID 209436641. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
- S2CID 209446443. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
- arXiv:quant-ph/9601025.
- S2CID 16880494.
- ^ "Directory". Warner College of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
- ^ "People | Biosciences | University of Exeter". Retrieved 2021-07-05.
- ^ "Eleanor Caves Lab | Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology | UC Santa Barbara". Retrieved 2021-07-05.
- ^ Board of Directors, Audubon New Mexico
- ^ "QCMC 2018 - Awards". Retrieved 2020-10-19.
- ^ "Micius Quantum Prize 2020". Micius Quantum Foundation. Archived from the original on 2021-01-23. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
External links
- Caves's homepage
- Caves's CV
- Oral history interview transcript with Carlton Caves on 16 July 2020, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
- Center for Quantum Information and Control, UNM
- Caves's New Mexico Diaries
- Caves's father
- Caves's mother
- Caves's math genealogy
- Publications of Carlton Morris Caves in the database SPIRES
- arXiv.org preprints for C. Caves
- search on author Carlton Caves from Google Scholar and his Google Scholar profile