Zachary Dutton

Who is Zachary Dutton?

Zachary John Dutton is a physicist who graduated from Lindsay High School in Lindsay CA, and was awarded a BSc in Physics from UC Berkeley in 1996. He was awarded his PhD in theoretical physics at Harvard University in 2000. His doctoral advisor was Prof.Lene Hau for his thesis entitled "Ultra-slow, stopped, and compressed light in Bose-Einstein condensates" He worked on a number of papers with Hau and Cyrus Behroozi, being amongst the first group to stop light completely. He undertook postdoctoral work at NIST-Gaithersburg with Dr. Charles Clark, prior to becoming a staff physicist at the Naval Research Lab in Washington. He conducted research centred mainly around cold atomic gases, EIT, low light level nonlinear optics, quantum memories, and coherent optical storage.

Dutton took a position at Raytheon BBN Technologies Cambridge, MA in 2007, where his research continued, and he is currently the manager of the Quantum Information Processing group at Raytheon BBN Technologies. QuIP conducts ongoing research, and has facilities in the following areas:

⁕Bits and Waves Lab

⁕Quantum Cryptography

⁕Quantum Sensors

⁕Superconducting Digital Receivers and Coprocessors

⁕Superconducting Qubit Systems