Gediminas Juzeliūnas (born 14 July 1958) is a professor of theoretical physicsInstitute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy and heads the Quantum optics groupQuantum optics group at Vilnius University in Lithuania. He has authored and co-authored more than 50arXiv.org articles on quantum and nonlinear optics, as well as on theoretical condensed matter physics.
Juzeliūnas is best known for putting forward realistic schemes in order to generate artificial spin-orbit coupling for ultracold atoms.Colloquium: Artificial gauge potentials for neutral atoms These advances were essential in order to make an experimental connection between spintronics and cold atomic gases.Cold atoms could help build 'spintronics' transistorSpin Control: Modeling the Transistor of the Future Furthermore, his landmark publications on slow lightExperimental demonstration of spinor slow light and artificial magnetic fieldsViewpoint: Artificial magnetism for ultracold atoms have led to important insights in quantum optics and many-body physics.Artificial magnetic fields for light could illuminate correlated quantum systems
Asteroid 289021 Juzeliunas, discovered by astronomers Kazimieras Černis and Justas Zdanavičius in 2004, was named in his and his father's honor. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 5 January 2015 ().
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