Kalle-Antti Suominen
Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Quantum Optics
kalle-antti.suominen@utu.fi +358 29 450 2774 +358 40 537 3263 Vesilinnantie 5 Turku : H.144 |
quantum optics; cold atoms; quantum dynamics; quantum information
I have been a Professor of Physics at University of Turku since 2000. I studied theoretical physics in University of Helsinki (HU) for 1984-1992. For 1989-1993 I worked at the Research Institute for Theoretical Physics at (HU) and obtained my PhD in 1992. For 1993-1995 I worked at the University of Oxford as a postdoctoral researcher, and returned to the University of Helsinki in 1995 as an Academy of Finland researcher, continuing in 1997 as a project leader and Academy researcher at the newly established Helsinki Institute of Physics. I am the director of the Laboratory of Quantum Optics at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku. In 2012-2024 I have been the vice-rector for research at the University of Turku.
My research consists currently studies of time-dependent quantums systems, especially the control of two-level systems that can represent qubits in quantum computation. I also collaborate with the experimental atomic hydrogen group, directed by Doc. Sergey Vasiliev, exploring the spin wave dynamics and magnon condensates at very low temperatues in spin-polarised hydrogen gas. In the past I have also studied excitation of molecules with femtosecond pulses, laser cooling of atomic gases and cold atomic collisions, decoherence effects related to atomic systems and quantum information, and dynamics of solitons and vortices in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. My work is and has been theoretical and computational, but in close interaction with experimental developments and experimental research groups.
Due to being the vice-rector I have not had any teaching duties lately except supervision of graduate students and examination of master theses. In the past I have lectured a basic course in optics, and special courses in quantum mechanics and quantum information. I have co-authored the textbook "Quantum Approach to Informatics", with Stig Stenholm, published by John Wiley & Sons in 2005.
- Searching for magnetostatic modes in spin-polarized atomic hydrogen (2020)
- Physica Scripta
- Identical spin rotation effect and electron spin waves in quantum gas of atomic hydrogen (2018)
- New Journal of Physics
- Spin waves in quantum gases-the quality factor of the identical spin rotation effect (2018)
- Physica Scripta
- Analytic vortex dynamics in an annular Bose-Einstein condensate (2016)
- Physical Review A
- Time-dependent two-level models and zero-area pulses (2016)
- Physica Scripta
- Two-level parabolic model with phase-jump coupling (2016)
- Physical Review A
- Bose-Einstein Condensation of Magnons in Atomic Hydrogen Gas (2015)
- Physical Review Letters
- Geometry of adiabatic Hamiltonians for two-level quantum systems (2015)
- Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
- Creation and revival of ring dark solitons in an annular Bose–Einstein condensate (2014)
- Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
- Multistate APLIP and VibLIP: from molecular bond extension to atomic transport (2014)
- Journal of Modern Optics
- Open Quantum Systems and Decoherence (2014) Quantum Information and Coherence Kalle-Antti Suominen
- Reversible decay of ring dark solitons (2014)
- Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
- Three-dimensional atom localization by laser fields in a four-level tripod system (2014)
- Physical Review A
- Snake instability of ring dark solitons in toroidally trapped Bose-Einstein condensates (2013)
- Physical Review A
- Exact soliton-like solutions of the radial Gross-Pitaevskii equation (2012)
- Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
- Guiding and Trapping of Electron Spin Waves in Atomic Hydrogen Gas (2012)
- Physical Review Letters
- Non-Markovian waiting-time distribution for quantum jumps in open systems (2012)
- Physical Review A
- Physical Implementation of Large-Scale Quantum Computation (2012) Suominen Kalle-Antti
- Robust two-dimensional subrecoil Raman cooling by adiabatic transfer in a tripod atomic system (2012)
- Physical Review A
- Superparabolic level-glancing models for two-state quantum systems (2012)
- Physical Review A
