Gerard J. Milburn

Gerard James Milburn (born 1958) is an Australian theoretical quantum physicist notable for his work on quantum feedback control, quantum measurements, quantum information, open quantum systems, and Linear optical quantum computing (aka the Knill, Laflamme and Milburn scheme).[3][4][5][6][7]

Gerard Milburn
Gerard Milburn at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2017
Born	Gerard James Milburn 1958 (age 61–62) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Alma mater	Griffith University University of Waikato
Known for	Quantum feedback Quantum optics
Scientific career
Fields	Physicist
Institutions	University of Queensland Australian National University Imperial College London University of Waikato
Doctoral advisor	Daniel Frank Walls[1]
Doctoral students	Howard M. Wiseman[2]
Influences	Carlton M. Caves
Website	smp.uq.edu.au/node/106/19

Education

Milburn received his BSc (Hons) in Physics from Griffith University in 1980. He completed his PhD in physics under Daniel Frank Walls[1] at the University of Waikato in 1982, with a thesis entitled Squeezed States and Quantum Nondemolition Measurements.

Career and Research

Following his PhD, Milburn did postdoctoral research in the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London in 1983. Later, in 1984, he was awarded a Royal Society Fellowship to work in the Quantum Optics group of Peter Knight,[1] at Imperial.

In 1985 he returned to Australia and was appointed lecturer at The Australian National University. In 1988 Milburn took up an appointment as Reader in Theoretical Physics at The University of Queensland. In 1994 he was appointed as Professor of Physics and in 1996 became Head of Department of Physics at The University of Queensland. From 2000 to 2010 he was Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computer Technology. From 2003 to 2013 he was an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow at the University of Queensland.

He was the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Institute for Quantum Computing and served on the scientific advisory committee for the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics from 2007 to 2010.

From 2011 to 2017 he was the Director and Chief Investigator of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems.[8]

Honors and awards

His awards include the Moyal Medal for Mathematical Physics (awarded 2001[9]) and Boas medal, (awarded in 2003). He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (1999), a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2005), and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2017.[10]

References

1. Knight, Peter; Milburn, Gerard J. (2015). "Daniel Frank Walls FRSNZ. 13 September 1942 – 12 May 1999". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. Royal Society publishing. 61: 531–540. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2014.0019. ISSN 0080-4606.
2. Gerard J. Milburn at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
3. "Schroedinger's Machines", (W. H. Freeman, 1997)
4. "The Feynman Processor", (Allen and Unwin, 1998)
5. D. F. Walls and G. J. Milburn Quantum Optics (Springer, 1994)
6. Wiseman, Howard M.; Milburn, Gerard J. (2009). Quantum Measurement and Control. Cambridge; New York City: Cambridge University Press. pp. 460. ISBN 978-0-521-80442-4.
7. An interview with Gerard J. Milburn
8. "Overview | ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems". equs.org. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
9. "Moyal Medallists – Department of Mathematics". maths.mq.edu.au. Archived from the original on 8 May 2015. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
10. Anon (2017). "Gerard Milburn". royalsociety.org. Archived from the original on 5 May 2017. Retrieved 6 May 2017.