James Cresser
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
James Cresser obtained a PhD in quantum optics in 1979 from the University of Queensland. This might just be the first PhD in theoretical quantum optics awarded in Australia. There followed a post-doctoral position at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany in 1980-82, a second post-doctoral position at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, 1982-84, and a year as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He took up a position as lecturer in physics at Macquarie University in mid-1985 and was promoted to senior lecturer in 1991. His teaching activities are principally concerned with upper level theoretical physics, and he was the recipient of an Outstanding Teaching Award in 1998 for his contributions to the development and the teaching of theoretical physics at Macquarie University. His research activities were originally in the area of theoretical quantum optics, but this has evolved into a general interest in the theory of open quantum systems, and quantum measurement theory. Most recent work has been on non-Markovian open systems, quantum trajectory theory and thermodynamics of quantum systems.
Research Interest
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Publications
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Cresser JD. Theory of the spectrum of the quantised light field. Physics Reports. 1983 Jan 1;94(2):47-110.
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Haikka P, Cresser JD, Maniscalco S. Comparing different non-Markovianity measures in a driven qubit system. Physical Review A. 2011 Jan 31;83(1):012112.
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Daffer S, Wódkiewicz K, Cresser JD, McIver JK. Depolarizing channel as a completely positive map with memory. Physical Review A. 2004 Jul 21;70(1):010304.
