William Phillips
University of Maryland & National Institute of Standards and Technology
RQS Senior Investigator
Contact Information
- Office:
University of Maryland
2201 Atlantic Building
College Park, MD 20742- Office Phone:
- (301) 975-6554
- Office:
2145 PSC Building
College Park, MD 20742
Additional Information
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- william_phillips_cv.pdf
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Bio
William Phillips is a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland. He is also a Fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute. Phillips’s research interests include laser cooling and trapping of neutral atoms, atomic-gas Bose-Einstein condensates, and quantum information with single-atom qubits. He received his doctorate in physics from MIT in 1976.
Recent Publications
Historical foreword: Jean Dalibard, the magneto-optical trap, and the ascent of physics with cold atomic gases
, , Comptes Rendus. Physique, 24, 5–13, (2024)
Affiliated Research Centers
JQI
