====== Christopher C. Gerry ======


===== Background =====

My research is in theoretical physics and is within the broad areas of quantum optics, quantum information processing, and foundations of quantum theory. More specifically, I am working on properties and methods of generating nonclassical states of light, high-resolution interferometry with nonclassical states of light and Bose-Einstein condensates, cavity quantum electrodynamics, quantum information processing with coherent states and their superpositions, tests of quantum mechanics against local realistic theories on a macroscopic scale.

===== Wigner-specific research =====
(selection)

  * Richard Birrittella, M. El Baz, and [[Christopher C. Gerry]], [[https://www.osapublishing.org/josab/abstract.cfm?uri=josab-35-7-1514|Photon catalysis and quantum state engineering ]], J. Opt. Soc. Amer. B **35**, 1514 (2018)
  * Richard Birrittella, Kezi Cheng, and [[Christopher C. Gerry]], [[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0030401815004447?via%3Dihub|Photon-Number Parity Oscillations in the Resonant Jaynes-Cummings Model]], Opt. Comm. **354**, 286 (2015) 



===== Affiliation(s) =====

  * Professor, City University of New York, USA 


===== Additional information =====

  * [[http://www.lehman.edu/academics/physics-astronomy/fac-gerry.php|University Profile]]