Klaus Mølmer

Klaus Mølmer is a Danish physicist who is currently a professor at the Niels Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen. From 2000 to 2022, he was a professor of physics at the University of Aarhus.

In 1999, Mølmer and Anders Sørensen proposed the Mølmer–Sørensen gate for trapped ion quantum computing, which was one of the first proposals for the implementation of a multi-qubit gate on a physical system.

Mølmer was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after he was nominated by their Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics in 2008, for his outstanding and insightful contributions to theoretical quantum optics, quantum information science and quantum atom optics, including the development of novel computational methods to treat open systems in quantum mechanics and theoretical proposals for the quantum logic gates with trapped ions.

Awards
Mølmer has been awarded several prizes, some of which are listed below.


 * Dirac Medal, University of New South Wales, 2023.
 * Villum Kann Rasmussens Årslegat 2012.
 * Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), 2008.
 * The EliteForsk Award of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Denmark, 2007.
 * Rigmor og Carl Holst-Knudens Videnskabspris (University of Aarhus biennial Research Award) 2004.
 * Biennial Award of the Danish Physical Society, NKT's forsker pris. 1999.
 * Annual Award of the Danish Optical Society, DOPS-prisen. 1998.
 * Rømer Fondets Legat. 1995.
 * PhD Award from the Danish Academy for Natural Sciences. 1993.