Peter Zoller

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Physics in Austria Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
• 2025 - Research.com Physics in Austria Leader Award
• 2023 - Research.com Physics in Austria Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Physics in Austria Leader Award
• 2013 - Wolf Prize in Physics for groundbreaking theoretical contributions to quantum information processing, quantum optics and the physics of quantum gases.
• 2013 - Member of Academia Europaea
• 2012 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences
• 2010 - Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute
• 2008 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 2008 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2005 - Max Planck Medal, German Physical Society
• 2005 - UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal
• 1998 - Max Born Award, Optical Society
• 1998 - Wittgenstein Award
• 1992 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his work illuminating many novel aspects of the interactions between intense laser fields and atoms
• 1983 - Ludwig Boltzmann Prize, Austrian Physical Society

Overview

Best Publications

• Quantum Computations with Cold Trapped Ions.

  J. I. Cirac;P. Zoller

  5518
  Citations

• Cold Bosonic Atoms in Optical Lattices

  D. Jaksch;D. Jaksch;C. Bruder;C. Bruder;J. I. Cirac;J. I. Cirac;C. W. Gardiner;C. W. Gardiner

  4853
  Citations

• Long-distance quantum communication with atomic ensembles and linear optics

  L.-M. Duan;M. D. Lukin;J. I. Cirac;P. Zoller

  4297
  Citations

• Quantum Repeaters: The Role of Imperfect Local Operations in Quantum Communication

  H.-J. Briegel;W. Dür;J. I. Cirac;P. Zoller

  3760
  Citations

• Long-distance quantum communication with atomic ensembles and linear optics

  Lu-Ming Duan;Mikhail Lukin;Ignacio Cirac;Peter Zoller

  3280
  Citations

• Quantum state transfer and entanglement distribution among distant nodes in a quantum network

  J. I. Cirac;P. Zoller;H. J. Kimble;H. J. Kimble;H. Mabuchi;H. Mabuchi

  2934
  Citations

• Inseparability Criterion for Continuous Variable Systems

  Lu-Ming Duan;Lu-Ming Duan;G. Giedke;J. I. Cirac;P. Zoller

  2513
  Citations

• Dipole blockade and quantum information processing in mesoscopic atomic ensembles.

  M. D. Lukin;M. Fleischhauer;R. Cote;L. M. Duan

  1963
  Citations

• Fast quantum gates for neutral atoms

  D. Jaksch;J. I. Cirac;P. Zoller;S. L. Rolston

  1880
  Citations

• Chiral quantum optics

  Peter Lodahl;Sahand Mahmoodian;Søren Stobbe;Arno Rauschenbeutel

  1448
  Citations

• A toolbox for lattice-spin models with polar molecules

  A. Micheli;G. K. Brennen;P. Zoller

  1305
  Citations

• The cold atom Hubbard toolbox

  D. Jaksch;D. Jaksch;P. Zoller

  1293
  Citations

• Quantum states and phases in driven open quantum systems with cold atoms

  S. Diehl;S. Diehl;A. Micheli;A. Micheli;A. Kantian;A. Kantian;B. Kraus;B. Kraus

  1280
  Citations

• Entanglement of Atoms via Cold Controlled Collisions

  D. Jaksch;H.-J. Briegel;J. I. Cirac;C. W. Gardiner

  1221
  Citations

• An open-system quantum simulator with trapped ions

  Julio T. Barreiro;Markus Müller;Philipp Schindler;Daniel Nigg

  1170
  Citations

• Many-particle entanglement with Bose-Einstein condensates.

  A Sørensen;L M Duan;J I Cirac;P Zoller

  1167
  Citations

• Decoherence, Continuous Observation, and Quantum Computing: A Cavity QED Model

  T. Pellizzari;S. A. Gardiner;J. I. Cirac;P. Zoller

  1150
  Citations

• Goals and opportunities in quantum simulation

  J. Ignacio Cirac;Peter Zoller

  987
  Citations

• Creation of effective magnetic fields in optical lattices: the Hofstadter butterfly for cold neutral atoms

  D Jaksch;D Jaksch;P Zoller

  979
  Citations

• A Rydberg quantum simulator

  Hendrik Weimer;Markus Müller;Igor Lesanovsky;Igor Lesanovsky;Peter Zoller

  972
  Citations