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 NIST–Gaithersburg 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:

• Bits and Waves Lab
• Quantum Cryptography
• Quantum Sensors
• Superconducting Digital Receivers and Coprocessors
• Superconducting Qubit Systems

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.

Awards

• Raytheon Excellence in Engineering and Technology Award for contributions to the development and demonstration of novel receivers and codes for photon efficient communications (March 2012)
• American Physical Society Outstanding Journal Referee awarded to approximately 0.2% of APS referees each year. (Feb. 2012)
• Berman Publication Award, NRL Optical Sciences Div. (Dec. 2007)
• National Research Council (NRC) Fellowship (Oct. 2002-Oct. 2004)
• Harold T. White Prize for introductory teaching in Harvard Physics Dept., based on professor recommendations and student evaluations. (May 1997)
• Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, given by Derek Bok Center for Teaching, Harvard Univ., based on student evaluations. (May 1997)
• Univ. of California, Berkeley, Physics Dept. Citation awarded to one graduating senior, based on recommendations of faculty, grades, and research (May 1996)
• Chancellor's Scholarship, Univ. of California, Berkeley (1992-1996)
• Southern California Edison Scholarship (1992-1996) ^[7]

Publications

• O.-K. Lim, Z. Dutton, G. Alon, C. H. Chen, M. Vasilyev, and P. Kumar, Enhanced optical resolution in target detection with phase-sensitive pre-amplification,^[8]
• R. Nair, B. J. Yen, J. H. Shapiro, J. Chen, Z. Dutton, S. Guha, and M. P. da Silva, Quantum-enhanced ladar ranging with squeezed-vacuum injection, phase-sensitive amplification, and slow photodetectors,^[9]
• P. A. Wasilousky, K. H. Smith, R. Glasser, G. L. Burdge, L. Burberry, B. Deibner, M. Silver, R. C. Peach, C. Visone, P. Kumar, O.-K. Lim, G. Alon, C. H. Chen, A. Bhagwat, P. Manurkar, M. Vasilyev, M. Annamalai, N. Stelmakh, Z. Dutton, S. Guha, C. Santivanez, J. Chen, M. Silva, W. Kelly, J. H. Shapiro, R. Nair, B. J. Yen, and F. N. C. Wong, Quantum enhancement of a coherent ladar receiver using phase-sensitive amplification,^[10]
• C. Santivanez, S. Guha, Z. Dutton, M. Annamalai, M. Vasilyev, B. J. Yen, R. Nair, and J. H. Shapiro, Quantum enhanced lidar resolution with multi-spatial-mode phase sensitive amplification,^[11]
• S. Guha, Z. Dutton and J. H. Shapiro, On quantum limit of optical communications: concatenated codes and joint-detection receivers^[12]
• Z. Dutton, S. Guha, J. Chen and J. Habif, Superadditive Optical Communications with Joint Detection Receivers and Concatenated Coding,^[13]
• S. Guha, Z. Dutton and J. Habif, Information in a Photon When Loss Encodes the Bit,^[14]
• Z. Dutton and J.H. Shapiro LADAR resolution improvement using squeezed-vacuum injection,^[15]
• S. Thanvanthri and Z. Dutton Spatial dynamics of spin squeezing in BEC ^[16]
• Z. Dutton, M. Bashkansy, F. Fatemi, J. Reintjes, M. Steiner, and V. Jacobs, Demonstration of bi-chromatic channelization slow light in rubidium vapor,^[17]
• N.S. Ginsberg, C. Slowe, Z. Dutton, and L.V. Hau, Ultra-slow light in Bose–Einstein condensates: Shocking matter and transforming light,^[18]
• M. Bashkansky, Z. Dutton, F. Fatemi, and J. Reintjes Slow light in Zeeman split hyperfine levels of hot Rb vapor^[19]
• V. Jacobs, Z. Dutton, M. Bashkansky, M. Steiner, and J. Reintjes, Liouville-space descriptions for intense-field coherent electromagnetic interactions,^[20]
• M. Bashkansky, G. Beadie, Z. Dutton, F. Fatemi, J. Reintjes, and M Steiner, Slow light dynamics in warm Rubidium vapor^[21]
• Z. Dutton, M. Bashkansky, M. Steiner, and John Reintjes, Channelization architecture for wide-band slow light in atomic vapors,^[22]
• C. Liu, B.D. Busch, Z. Dutton, and L. V. Hau, Anisotropic Expansion of Finite Temperature Bose Gases - Emergence of Interaction Effects between Condensed and Non-Condensed Atoms,^[23]
• Zachary Dutton, Lene Vestergaard Hau Storing and processing optical information with ultra-slow light in Bose–Einstein condensates ^[24]
• Zachary Dutton, Naomi S. Ginsberg, Christopher Slowe, and Lene Vestergaard Hau The Art of Taming Light: Ultra-slow and Stopped Light ^[25]
• Zachary Dutton, Michael Budde, Christopher Slowe, Lene Vestergaard Hau Observation of quantum shock waves created with ultra-compressed slow light pulses in a Bose–Einstein Condensate^[26]
• Chien Liu, Zachary Dutton, Cyrus H. Behroozi, Lene Vestergaard Hau Observation of coherent optical information storage in an atomic medium using halted light pulses^[27]
• B. D. Busch, Chien Liu, Z. Dutton, C. H. Behroozi, L. Vestergaard Hau Observation of interaction dynamics in finite-temperature Bose condensed atom clouds^[28]
• Lene Vestergaard Hau, B. D. Busch, Chien Liu, Zachary Dutton, Michael M. Burns, J. A. Golovchenko Near Resonant Spatial Images of Confined Bose–Einstein Condensates in the 4-Dee Magnetic Bottle^[29]

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