Descripción del proyecto
Procesamiento de información cuántica con moléculas poliatómicas complejas
Uno de los mayores retos científicos es avanzar en la comprensión fundamental de los sistemas cuánticos complejos y aprovechar plenamente su potencial tecnológico. El afán por construir un procesador de información cuántica ha desencadenado esfuerzos sin precedentes para controlar y caracterizar la dinámica de los sistemas cuánticos. El proyecto QCOSMO, financiado con fondos europeos, tiene como objetivo investigar y aprovechar el potencial computacional de un nuevo sistema de iones atrapados con componentes individuales complejos: las moléculas poliatómicas. La investigación debería abordar el reto inveterado de controlar y caracterizar moléculas poliatómicas individuales a nivel cuántico. Las nuevas técnicas de control cuántico podrían convertir las moléculas poliatómicas acopladas a iones atrapados en una plataforma versátil para futuras tecnologías cuánticas.
Objetivo
Reaching a fundamental understanding of complex quantum systems and fully harnessing their computational power for information processing is one of today’s greatest scientific challenges. The quest to build a quantum information processor has triggered unprecedented efforts to control and characterize dynamics in quantum systems. Here, trapped ion systems are one of the most promising architectures to realize large-scale quantum information processors.
In this project I aim to explore the physics and harness the computational potential of a novel trapped ion system with more complex individual constituents: polyatomic molecules. The proposed research tackles the long standing challenge of preparing, controlling and characterizing single polyatomic molecules at the quantum level.
The path towards these ambitious goals is centered around two high-level objectives: First, I will develop novel techniques to characterize quantum dynamics of polyatomic systems. In particular, I will quantify quantum coherence in ultrafast intra-molecular processes. This research will open a new window into intra-molecular processes with applications in quantum chemistry as well as biology. Second, I will develop and implement quantum control techniques for polyatomic molecules by coupling them to an atomic quantum information processor. Here, I will demonstrate the building blocks for a new scalable hybrid atom-molecule quantum information processor with ultrafast gate operations.
I am convinced that these new control techniques will lay the groundwork for research beyond the immediate project goals such as state-selective chemistry, precision measurements of fundamental constants, as well as scalable and ultrafast quantum computing. My strong interdisciplinary background in experiment design and characterization of quantum systems, and my track record in experimental quantum computation, put me in a unique position to reach the ambitious goals.
Ámbito científico
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesquantum physics
- natural scienceschemical sciencesphysical chemistryquantum chemistry
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcomputer hardwarequantum computers
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencedata processing
Programa(s)
Régimen de financiación
ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitución de acogida
6020 Innsbruck
Austria