Daniel Heinzen

  • Professor
  • The Fondren Foundation Centennial Chair in Physics
  • Physics
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Biography

The Fondren Foundation Centennial Chair in Physics (Holder)

Research

Experimental quantum and atom optics.

Research Areas

  • Quantum Information or Computing

Education

  • Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1988)

Publications

  • 42. Reply to “Comment on ‘Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage from an atomic to a molecular BoseEinstein condensate” P. D. Drummond, K. V. Kheruntsyan, D. J. Heinzen, and R. H. Wynar, Phys. Rev. A 71, 017602 (2005)

    43. T. Bergeman, J. Qi, D. Wang, Y. Huang, H. K. Pechkis, E. E. Eyler, P. L. Gould, W. C. Stwalley, R. A. Cline, J. D. Miller, and D. J. Heinzen, “Photoassociation of 85Rb atoms into 0u+states near the 5s + 5p atomic limits,” J. Phys. B39, S813 (2006)

    44. J. Liang, R. N. Kohn, Jr., M. F. Becker, and D. J. Heinzen, “High precision laser beam shaping using a binary-amplitude spatial light modulator,” Appl. Opt. 29, 1323 (2009).

    45. J. Liang, R. N. Kohn, Jr., M. F. Becker, and D. J. Heinzen, “1.5% root-mean-square flat-intensity laser beam formed using a binary-amplitude spatial light modulator,” Appl. Opt. 48, 1955 (2009)

    46. X. Du., S. Wan, E. Yesilada, C. Ryu, D. J. Heinzen, Z. Liang, and B. Wu, “Bragg Spectroscopy of a SuperfluidBose-Hubbard Gas,” New. J. Phys. 12, 083025 (2010).

Awards

  • Fondren Centennial Foundation Chair in Physics, University of Texas, 2000 - present.
  • Fellow, American Physical Society, 1999 - present.
  • National Science Foundation National Young Investigator, 1992 - 1997.
  • Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1991 - 1993.
  • National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, 1988 - 1990.
  • Lester Wolfe Fellow, 1981 - 1988.