Peter W. Milonni
{{short description|American theoretical physicist (born 1947)}}
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| birth_date = 5 May 1947
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| citizenship = American
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- Air Force Weapons Laboratory
- PerkinElmer
- University of Arkansas
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- University of Rochester
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- Niagara University (BA, 1969)
- University of Rochester (PhD, 1974)
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| doctoral_advisor = Joseph H. Eberly
| thesis_title = Theoretical Aspects of Spontaneous Photon Emission From Atoms
| thesis_year = 1974
| thesis_url = http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1974PhDT.......131M
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- Casimir effect
- Nanotechnology
- Optics
- Photonics
- Physics
- Quantum electrodynamics
- Quantum optics
- Zero-point energy
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| awards = Max Born Award
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| spouse = Mei-Li Shih
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Peter Walden Milonni (born 5 May 1947) is an American theoretical physicist who deals with quantum optics, laser physics, quantum electrodynamics and the Casimir effect.
Milonni earned his PhD in 1974 at the University of Rochester. He then worked at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory from 1974 to 1977, then working at PerkinElmer from 1977 to 1980. In 1980 he became professor of physics at the University of Arkansas; From 1986 to 1994 he was at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he became a fellow of the laboratory from 1994 onwards. He then had a research professorship at the University of Rochester.
He is in on editorial boards of Progress in Optics, Contemporary Physics, Advances in Optics & Photonics and Physical Review Letters. Milonni is also author of several textbooks and monographs including The Quantum Vacuum: An Introduction to Quantum Electrodynamics.
In 2008 he received the Max Born Award "For exceptional contributions to the fields of theoretical optics, laser physics and quantum mechanics, and for dissemination of scientific knowledge through authorship of a series of outstanding books".
Selected publications
=Popular Science=
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- {{cite journal|last1=Milonni|first1=Peter W.|title=Quantum Decay: A Watched Pot Boils Quicker|journal=Nature|volume=405|issue=6786|year=2000|pages=525–526|issn=0028-0836|doi=10.1038/35014719|pmid=10850699|s2cid=205006815|doi-access=free}}
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=Academic papers=
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- {{cite journal|last1=Milonni|first1=P.W.|title=Semiclassical and Quantum-Electrodynamical Approaches in Nonrelativistic Radiation Theory|journal=Physics Reports|volume=25|issue=1|year=1976|pages=1–81|issn=0370-1573|doi=10.1016/0370-1573(76)90037-5|bibcode=1976PhR....25....1M|oclc=312628221|url=http://web.physics.ucsb.edu/~phys250/fall2009/Ref3_Milonni.pdf}}
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=Books=
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- {{cite book|last1=Milonni|first1=Peter W.|last2=Shih|first2=Mei-Li|last3=Ackerhalt|first3=Jay R.|title=Chaos in Laser-Matter Interactions|date=1987|publisher=World Scientific|location=Singapore|isbn=9971501791|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l5VaRxsYY_MC|oclc=16686861|doi=10.1142/0323|bibcode=1987clmi.book.....M}}
- {{cite book|last1=Milonni|first1=Peter W.|last2=Eberly|first2=Joseph H.|title=Lasers|date=1988|publisher=Wiley|location=New York|isbn=0471627313|lccn=87026347|oclc=16801324}}
- {{cite book|last1=Milonni|first1=Peter W.|title=The Quantum Vacuum: An Introduction to Quantum Electrodynamics|date=1994|publisher=Academic Press|location=Boston|isbn=0124980805|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uPHJCgAAQBAJ|lccn=93029780|oclc=422797902}}
- {{cite book|last1=Milonni|first1=Peter W.|title=Fast Light, Slow Light, and Left-Handed Light|date=2004|publisher=Institute of Physics|location=Bristol, Philadelphia|isbn=0750309261|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kE8OUCvt7ecC|lccn=2005297021|oclc=964822126}}
- {{cite book|last1=Milonni|first1=Peter W.|last2=Mohideen|first2=Umar|editor1-last=Greenberger|editor1-first=Daniel|editor2-last=Hentschel|editor2-first=Klaus|editor3-last=Weinert|editor3-first=Friedel|title=Compendium of Quantum Physics: Concepts, Experiments, History and Philosophy|date=2009|publisher=Springer|location=Heidelberg, New York|isbn=9783540706229|pages=87–88|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ekyAV8VtfuYC&pg=PP87|chapter=Casimir Effect|lccn=2008942038|oclc=297803628|doi=10.1007/978-3-540-70626-7|arxiv=0811.2516}}
- {{cite book|last1=Milonni|first1=Peter W.|editor1-last=Greenberger|editor1-first=Daniel|editor2-last=Hentschel|editor2-first=Klaus|editor3-last=Weinert|editor3-first=Friedel|title=Compendium of Quantum Physics: Concepts, Experiments, History and Philosophy|date=2009|publisher=Springer|location=Heidelberg, New York|isbn=9783540706229|pages=106–108|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ekyAV8VtfuYC&pg=PP106|chapter=Coherent States|lccn=2008942038|oclc=297803628|doi=10.1007/978-3-540-70626-7|arxiv=0811.2516}}
- {{cite book|last1=Milonni|first1=Peter W.|editor1-last=Greenberger|editor1-first=Daniel|editor2-last=Hentschel|editor2-first=Klaus|editor3-last=Weinert|editor3-first=Friedel|title=Compendium of Quantum Physics: Concepts, Experiments, History and Philosophy|date=2009|publisher=Springer|location=Heidelberg, New York|isbn=9783540706229|pages=864–866|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ekyAV8VtfuYC&pg=PP864|chapter=Zero-Point Energy|lccn=2008942038|oclc=297803628|doi=10.1007/978-3-540-70626-7|arxiv=0811.2516}}
- {{cite book|last1=Milonni|first1=Peter W.|last2=Eberly|first2=Joseph H.|title=Laser Physics|date=2010|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|location=Hoboken, New Jersey|isbn=9780470387719|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f7g0Mx5RR3cC|lccn=2008026771|oclc=232391615}}
- {{cite book|editor1-last=Dalvit|editor1-first=Diego|editor2-last=Milonni|editor2-first=Peter W.|editor3-last=Roberts|editor3-first=David|editor4-last=da Rosa|editor4-first=Felipe|title=Casimir Physics|series=Lecture Notes in Physics|volume=834|year=2011|issn=0075-8450|doi=10.1007/978-3-642-20288-9|bibcode=2011LNP...834.....D|isbn=9783642202872|oclc=844922239|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eqQRBwAAQBAJ|last1=Dalvit|first1=Diego|last2=Milonni|first2=Peter|last3=Roberts|first3=David|last4=Da Rosa|first4=Felipe|arxiv=1007.0966|s2cid=118655763}}
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See also
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- Casimir force
- Negative energy
- Nonclassical light
- Quantum electrodynamics
- Quantum optics
- Squeezed vacuum
- Stochastic electrodynamics
- Unruh effect
- Van der Waals force
- Zero-point energy
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References
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- {{cite news|last1=Freedman|first1=Michael|title=Dr. Peter Milonni Presents On 'Role Of Laser Technology In Science, Medicine And IT'|url=http://news.niagara.edu/dr-peter-milonni-presents-on-role-of-laser-technology-in-science-medicine-and-it/|publisher=Niagara University|date=8 Oct 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170517105208/http://news.niagara.edu/dr-peter-milonni-presents-on-role-of-laser-technology-in-science-medicine-and-it/|archive-date=17 May 2017|url-status=dead}}
- {{cite journal|last1=Yam|first1=Philip|title=Exploiting Zero-Point Energy|journal=Scientific American|volume=277|issue=6|year=1997|pages=82–85|issn=0036-8733|doi=10.1038/scientificamerican1297-82|url=http://www.padrak.com/ine/ZPESCIAM.html|bibcode=1997SciAm.277f..82Y|url-access=subscription}}
- {{cite web|last1=Wogan|first1=Tim|title=Decaying Atoms Feel a Tiny Frictional Force, Say Physicists|url=http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2017/feb/09/decaying-atoms-feel-a-tiny-frictional-force-say-physicists|website=physicsworld.com|publisher=Physics World|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170517110416/http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2017/feb/09/decaying-atoms-feel-a-tiny-frictional-force-say-physicists|archive-date=17 May 2017|date=9 Feb 2017|url-status=dead}}
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12yjbyunRdM Casimir Effects, Institute for Quantum Computing talk by Peter Milonni]
- [http://www.osa.org/en-us/awards_and_grants/awards/award_description/maxborn/ Max Born Award]
- [https://www.pas.rochester.edu/people/faculty/milonni_peter/index.html Peter W. Milonni, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester]
- {{cite web|title=Quantum Fields LLC Project Summary|url=https://www.quantumfields.com/projects.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170517111810/https://www.quantumfields.com/projects.htm|archive-date=17 May 2017|url-status=dead}}
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