Tue, 14 July 2009 In 1997, OSA Honorary Member William Phillips was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics—along with his colleagues Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji—for developing a method for using laser light to chill gases to within a few millionths of a degree of absolute zero. Phillips is currently building on his laser-cooling work to investigate new possibilities for computing using quantum mechanical phenomena. He leads a research group on quantum computing at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In this exclusive OPN Podcast, OPN Managing Editor Christina Folz catches up with Phillips about his Nobel-winning work, what's he"s been up to lately, and what’s next for the exciting field of quantum computing.
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