Department of Physics and Astronomy Graduate Faculty Teaching Award in 2017[22]
Publications
Dowling is the author of a popular science book, "Schrödinger's Killer App – Race to Build the World's First Quantum Computer".[23] A story in this book about early motivations for funding quantum computing by the United States military was illustrated by Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal following his death.[24] Additionally, this book formulated what is known as the Dowling-Neven Law,[25] regarding the classical cost of simulating quantum computers growing doubly exponentially in time, given that the number of qubits on current quantum computers is currently growing exponentially with time. The first book's sequel, "Schrödinger's Web: Race to Build the Quantum Internet", has been released posthumously.[26]
Dowling co-authored a 2003 paper which predicted a boom in quantum technologies.[27]
^Dowling, Jonathan P.; Scalora, Michael; Bloemer, Mark J.; Bowden, Charles M. (1994). "The photonic band edge laser: A new approach to gain enhancement". Journal of Applied Physics. 75 (4): 1896–1899. Bibcode:1994JAP....75.1896D. doi:10.1063/1.356336.
^"Info"(PDF). trs.jpl.nasa.gov/bitstream. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
^"Quantum computing and communications," by Michael Brooks (London, Springer, 1999), page 107, Quote from this book: "Although this is not widely known, the American NSA-ARO-DARPA research programme in quantum computing was kindled, indirectly, by European speakers and communicated to the US funding agencies by Jon Dowling who was, at the time, a physicist in the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command.... Jon had attended the 1994 IQEC and ICAP meeting where British Telecom revealed their transmission of a quantum cryptographic key over 10km of optical fiber, and Artur Ekert announced Shor's discovery of the factoring algorithm, respectively. Upon making these breakthroughs known to the Army Research Office, it was decided to have an ARO workshop on quantum cryptography and quantum computing in Tucson in the winter of 1995. Many of the key researchers in quantum computing were at this workshop, as well as Keith Miller and others from the National Security Agency (NSA). This workshop was the genesis of the ARO-NSA collaboration on the promotion of quantum computing research." http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/901463471
^Scalora, Michael; Dowling, Jonathan P.; Bowden, Charles M.; Bloemer, Mark J. (5 September 1994). "Optical Limiting and Switching of Ultrashort Pulses in Nonlinear Photonic Band Gap Materials". Physical Review Letters. 73 (10). American Physical Society (APS): 1368–1371. Bibcode:1994PhRvL..73.1368S. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.73.1368. ISSN0031-9007. PMID10056775.
^Dowling, Jonathan P.; Scalora, Michael; Bloemer, Mark J.; Bowden, Charles M. (15 February 1994). "The photonic band edge laser: A new approach to gain enhancement". Journal of Applied Physics. 75 (4). AIP Publishing: 1896–1899. Bibcode:1994JAP....75.1896D. doi:10.1063/1.356336. ISSN0021-8979.
^"Quantum technology: the second quantum revolution," by
Jonathan P. Dowling & Gerard J. Milburn; Published 15 August 2003; DOI:10.1098/rsta.2003.1227 [2]
