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János A. Bergou

Professor of Physics
Hunter College of the City University of New York
Office: Room 1205 HN
Tel: 212-772-5254
Fax: 212-772-5390
Email: jbergou@hunter.cuny.edu

Research Interests:

Quantum optics, laser physics, cavity QED and micromasers, nonlinear optics, resonance fluorescence, squeezing and non-classical radiation, quantum information and quantum computing, quantum measurement theory.

Education:

Diploma (M.S.)	Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary	1970
Ph.D.	Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary	1975
CSc. (Habilitation)	Hungarian Academy of Sciences	1982
DSc. (Doctor of Sciences)	Hungarian Academy of Sciences	1994

Appointments:

CUNY Hunter College	Professor (early tenure with promotion)	1994-date
	Associate Professor	1990-1994
Central Research Institute for Physics (Hungarian Acad. Sci., Budapest)	Senior Scientist	1983-date (on leave since 1990)
	Research Scientist	1970-1983

Long term visiting positions:

Institute of Physics, Janus Pannonius University,Pécs, Hungary	Director (during sabbatical leave)	1998-1999
Center for Advanced Studies (Univ. of New Mexico)	Visiting Professor	1986-1988
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Univ. of Innsbruck, Austria	Visiting Professor	1996-1997 (winter term)
Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics Garching, Germany	Humboldt Fellow	1983-1984
Centre d'Etudes Atomiques, CEN Saclay, France	Visiting Scholar	1976
P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, USSR	Visiting Scholar	1974

Recent Publications:

J. Bergou and. M. Hillery, A universal programmable quantum state discriminator that is optimal for unambiguously distinguishing between unknown states, Physical Review Letters 94, 160501 (2005). (PDF)

J. Bergou and M. Hillery, Quantum state filtering applied to the discrimination of Boolean functions, Physical Review A 72, 012302 (2005). (PDF)

U. Herzog and J. Bergou, Unambiguous discrimination of mixed quantum states, Physical Review A 71, 050301R (2005). (PDF)

J. Bergou, U. Herzog, and M. Hillery, Optimal unambiguous filtering of a quantum state: An instance in mixed state discrimination, Physical Review A 71, 042314 (2005). (PDF)

E. Andersson, J. Bergou, and I. Jex, Comparison of unitary transforms using Franson interferometry, Journal of Modern Optics 52, 1485 (2005). (PDF)

U. Herzog and J. Bergou, Distinguishing mixed quantum states: Minimum-error discrimination versus optimum unambiguous discrimination, Physical Review A 70, 022302 (2004). (PDF)

M. Mohseni, A. Steinberg, and J. Bergou, Optical realization of optimal unambiguous discrimination for pure and mixed quantum states, Physical Review Letters 93, 200403 (2004). (PDF)

J. Bergou, U. Herzog, and M. Hillery, Discrimination of quantum states, Ch. 11: invited review article in Lecture Notes in Physics vol. 649: Quantum state estimation, M. Paris and J. Rehacek eds. (Springer, Berlin, 2004) pp. 417-465. (PDF)

J. Bergou, U. Herzog, and M. Hillery, Quantum state filtering and discrimination between sets of Boolean functions, Physical Review Letters 90, 257901 (2003). (PDF)

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Last Updated on Feb 3, 2006