HKIAS Distinguished Lecture

Quantum Science with Rydberg Atoms

Professor Serge Haroche, Chairman of the HKIAS and Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics 2012, presented a distinguished lecture at the HKIAS Lecture Theatre on 15 May on Quantum Science with Rydberg Atoms. The lecture was well attended by faculty, postdoctoral fellows, students, and secondary school students. Dr. Haroche's lecture gave audience to gain insight into the cutting-edge research of quantum science. He also recalled the history of Rydberg atom physics and described recent experiments in which arrays of Rydberg atoms interact with each other in a controlled manner, opening up opportunities for quantum information science.

Professor Serge Haroche is Professor Emeritus at College de France. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and a Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States and the American Academy of Art and Sciences. His research focuses on atomic physics and quantum information science. He has been a pioneer in Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics, the domain of quantum optics which studies the behaviour of atoms interacting with the field confined in a box made of highly reflecting mirrors.

He has received many prizes and awards, including the Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics 2012, the Grand Prix Jean Ricard of the French Physical Society (1983), the Einstein Prize for Laser science (1988), the Humbold Award (1992), the Michelson Medal from the Franklin Institute (1993), the Tomassoni Award from La Sapienza University (Rome, 2001), the Quantum Electronics prize of the European Physical Society (2002), the Quantum Communication Award of the International Organization for Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing (2002), the Townes Award of the Optical Society of America, the CNRS Gold Medal (2009) and the Herbert Walter Prize of the German Physical Society and the Optical Society of America.

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