# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carlton-m-caves
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:56:39.847Z

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name: "Carlton M. Caves"
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description: "Carlton Morris Caves is an American theoretical physicist. He is currently professor emeritus and research professor of physics and astronomy\nat the University of New Mexico. Caves works in the areas of \nphysics of information; information, entropy, and complexity; quantum information theory; quantum chaos, quantum optics; the theory of non-classical light; the theory of quantum noise; and the quantum theory of measurement. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences."
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birthDate: "1950-10-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump