A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
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Vladan Vuletić

Professor Vladan Vuletić (Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics Division Head, Atomic, Biological, Condensed Matter and Plasma Physics) was born in Peć, Yugoslavia, and educated in Germany. In 1992, he earned the Physics Diploma with highest honors from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and in 1997, a Ph.D. in Physics (summa cum laude) from the same institution.

While a postdoctoral researcher with the Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, Professor Vuletić accepted a Lynen Fellowship at Stanford University in 1997. In 2000, he was appointed an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Stanford and in June 2003 accepted an Assistant Professorship in Physics at MIT. He was promoted to Associate Professor in July 2004. He was promoted to Full Professor in July 2011.

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Recent awards include a 2003–04 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and a 2012 Fellowship of the APS.

Professor Vuletic’s interests lie in many-body quantum mechanics and the experimental implementation of entangled many-body states. He is particularly interested in entangled states that can be used to overcome the so-called standard quantum limit in measurements, a limit that is associated with quantum mechanical measurements on collections of independent particles. His group concentrates on the light-atom interaction as a tool to generate non-classical states of atomic ensembles and of light. Recently, his group has demonstrated spin squeezing, a method to redistribute the quantum noise in atomic ensembles so as to improve the precision of an atomic clock beyond the standard quantum limit. His group has also demonstrated several techniques to induce strong interactions between individual photons. Among them are vacuum-induced transparency, a technique where the vacuum field inside an optical resonator renders an absorbing material transparent, and a strongly nonlinear medium that will transmit one photon but absorb two.

Source: MIT


Srpski naučnik na korak do izuma kvantnog računara

Kvantni kompjuter koji bi mogao da uradi u sekundi ono za šta bi klasičnom računaru trebalo 1000 godina, neostvareni je san srpske nauke. Ipak, šestoro svetskih stručnjaka, među kojima je i jedan Srbin, prof. dr Vladan Vuletić, na pragu su da to učine.

Vladan Vuletić, srpski naučnik sa Instituta tehnologije u Masačusetsu (MIT), u šestočlanom timu koji čine istraživači iz Kine, Amerike, Rusije, Japana i Austrije, otkrio je optički tranzistor i time se više nego iko do sada približio izumu kvatnog računara.

- Običan tranzistor je sprava gde jedna mala struja, ili mali broj elektrona koji čine struju kada se kreću, kontroliše jednu veću struju. Takve električne tranzistore možete naći svuda – u svakoj električnoj spravi, u svakom kompjuteru. Naučnici su dugo razmišljali da li je moguće napraviti i optičke tranzistore, gde bi jedan slabiji izvor svetlosti ili čak jedan jedini foton, kako se zovu čestice koje čine svetlo, mogao da kontroliše jedno jače svetlo ili laserski zrak. Takvi optički tranzistori bi mogli da budu znantno brži od običnih električnih tranzistora i da troše manje energije - objašnjava za “Blic” prof. dr Vladan Vuletić.

On i njegov tim uspeli su u toj nameri i napravili takav optički tarnzistor gde samo jedan jedini foton (čestioca svetlosti) može da uključi ili isključi laserski zrak. O ovom otkriću ubrzo su počeli da izveštavaju mediji iz svih krajeva sveta i da bruje stručnjaci u svetskim naučnim krugovima, jer je postojalo jasno da se srpski naučnik približio onome što već decenijama unazad mnogima nije uspelo ni posle brojnih pokušaja. Ukratko rečeno - nikad nismo bili bliže realizovanju kvatnog računara koji i dalje spada u domen naučne fantastike.

- Da bi se tranzistor koji smo otkrili upotrebio u kvantnom kompjuteru, biće potrebno da se sistem minijutarizuje i ujednostavi. Naš tranzistor koristi hladne atome koji se nalaze na -273 celzijusa, blizu apsolutnoj nuli. Takvi atomi se kreću tako sporo da nisu brži od mrava - kaže Vuletić.

Na projektu su, dodaje on, radili oko godinu dana. Bilo je neizvesno sve do samog kraja, ali nisu odustajali.

- Istraživanja obično počinju nekom idejom iz kvantne mehanike koja izgleda obećavajuća na papiru, a da li će funkcionisati u eksperimentu gde uslovi nisu idealni, obično se ne zna dok se ne pokuša. Ovog puta je funkcionisalo. Niko ne zna da li će ikad biti moguće realizovati kvantni kompjuter. Poznati fizičar Ervin Šredinger je jednom opisao mačku koja po kvantnoj mehanici može da istovremeno bude i živa i mrtva. Kvantni kompjuter nije tako kompleksan sistem kao mačka, ali možda nije moguće sagraditi tako veliku mašinu koja funcioniše po pravilima kvantne, a ne klasične mehanike. Ali čak ako nije moguće realizovati u praksi kvantni kompjuter, u svakom slučaju naučićemo dosta o kvantnoj mehanici i o prirodi u tom pokušaju - zaključuje naš naučnik.

Učio od dva Nobelovca

Vladan Vuletić diplomirao je i doktorirao u Minhenu u Nemačkoj, kod prof. Teodora Henša koji je kasnije (2003. godine) dobio Nobelovu nagradu za fiziku. I to nije jedini Nobelovac od koga je učio. U Kaliforniji, na Univerzitetu Stenford, radio je sa Stivenom Čuom koji je dobio Nobelovu nagradu za fiziku 1997. godine. Vuletić je 2000. dobio profesuru na Stenfordu i MIT-u, a 2003. godine je prešao na MIT. Iz Srbije je otišao kao dete sa četiri godine, odrastao je u Nemačkoj, ali redovno putuje u Srbiju, odakle mu je i žena.

- Pokušavam i da održavam saradnju sa naučnicima iz Srbije, posebno sa Instituta za fiziku u Beogradu, i nekoliko studenata i naučnika iz Srbije su radili sa nama na raznim projektima na MIT-u - kaže on.

Miljana Leskovac, 31. juli 2013.

Izvor: Blic


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On Divine Philanthropy

From Plato to John Chrysostom

by Bishop Danilo Krstic

This book describes the use of the notion of divine philanthropy from its first appearance in Aeschylos and Plato to the highly polyvalent use of it by John Chrysostom. Each page is marked by meticulous scholarship and great insight, lucidity of thought and expression. Bishop Danilo’s principal methodology in examining Chrysostom is a philological analysis of his works in order to grasp all the semantic shades of the concept of philanthropia throughout his vast literary output. The author overviews the observable development of the concept of philanthropia in a research that encompasses nearly seven centuries of literary sources. Peculiar theological connotations are studied in the uses of divine philanthropia both in the classical development from Aeschylos via Plutarch down to Libanius, Themistius of Byzantium and the Emperor Julian, as well as in the biblical development, especially from Philo and the New Testament through Origen and the Cappadocians to Chrysostom.

With this book, the author invites us to re-read Chrysostom’s golden pages on the ineffable philanthropy of God. "There is a modern ring in Chrysostom’s attempt to prove that we are loved—no matter who and where we are—and even infinitely loved, since our Friend and Lover is the infinite Triune God."

The victory of Chrysostom’s use of philanthropia meant the affirmation of ecclesial culture even at the level of Graeco-Roman culture. May we witness the same reality today in the modern techno-scientific world in which we live.