Peter Domokos, ordinary member of the Hungarian academy of Sciences, the vice-director of the Wigner Research Centre is leading a tenured “Momentum” research group. He got his PhD in 1998 from the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel at the Ecole Normale Superieure. He constructed the scheme of the first two-qubit universal quantum logic gate. His research focus is on the quantum operations based on the atom-photons interaction, he is one of the authors of the basic review paper in this field in 2013. He participated in several EU FP7 consortia as a partner. He published 84 peer reviewed papers in international journals. He has been serving as a Divisional Associate Editor of the Physical Review Letters since 2020.

Selected publications:

Observation of the Photon-Blockade Breakdown Phase Transition
J. M. Fink, A. Dombi, A. Vukics, A. Wallraff, P. Domokos
Physical Review X 7, 011012 (2017)

Cold atoms in cavity generated dynamical optical potentials
H. Ritsch, P. Domokos, F. Brennecke, T. Esslinger
Reviews of Modern Physics 85, 553–601 (2013)

Dicke-Model Phase Transition in the Quantum Motion of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in an Optical Cavity
D. Nagy, G. Kónya, G. Szirmai, P. Domokos
Physical Review Letters 104, 130401 (2010)

Collective cooling and self-organization of atoms in a cavity
P. Domokos and H. Ritsch
Physical Review Letters 89, 253003 (2002

Simple cavity–QED two–bit universal quantum logic gate: The principle and expected performances
P. Domokos, J. M. Raimond, M. Brune, S. Haroche
Physical Review A 52, 3554-3559 (1995)