David Pegg (physicist)

Professor David Pegg (born 19 May 1941)[1] is an emeritus professor in theoretical physics at Griffith University, Australia. In his career, he has made numerous contributions to NMR, quantum optics and conceptual physics including the nature of time. He has published approximately 200 papers and his h-index is at least 42. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is a recipient of the Harrie Massey Medal for Australian physics[2] and of the Centenary Medal[3] for his contribution to quantum theory. He is best known for the Pegg-Barnett phase formalism that provides a quantum mechanical description of the phase of light,[4] for the invention of the DEPT sequence for nuclear magnetic resonance [5] and for the invention of the quantum scissors device.[6]

David T Pegg
NationalityAustralian
Known forContributions to the nature of time
Quantum Optics
AwardsHarrie Massey Medal (1997)
Scientific career
Doctoral studentsJ. A. Vaccaro

References
  1. Rosanne Walker. "Pegg, David Thomas (1941 - )". Retrieved 14 May 2012.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 19 August 2008. Retrieved 13 October 2008.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=1126604&search_type=simple&showInd=true
  4. Pegg, D. T.; Barnett, S. M. (1 January 1989). "Phase properties of the quantized single-mode electromagnetic field". Physical Review A. American Physical Society (APS). 39 (4): 1665–1675. doi:10.1103/physreva.39.1665. ISSN 0556-2791.
  5. Pegg, David T.; Doddrell, David M.; Bendall, M. Robin (15 September 1982). "Proton‐polarization transfer enhancement of a heteronuclear spin multiplet with preservation of phase coherency and relative component intensities". The Journal of Chemical Physics. AIP Publishing. 77 (6): 2745–2752. doi:10.1063/1.444188. ISSN 0021-9606.
  6. Pegg, David T.; Phillips, Lee S.; Barnett, Stephen M. (24 August 1998). "Optical State Truncation by Projection Synthesis". Physical Review Letters. American Physical Society (APS). 81 (8): 1604–1606. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.81.1604. ISSN 0031-9007.


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