Descrizione del progetto
Elaborazione dell’informazione quantistica con molecole poliatomiche complesse
L’approfondimento della comprensione fondamentale dei sistemi quantistici complessi e il pieno sfruttamento delle loro potenzialità tecnologiche è una delle più grandi sfide scientifiche. La ricerca per la costruzione di un processore di informazioni quantistiche ha innescato sforzi senza precedenti per controllare e caratterizzare la dinamica dei sistemi quantistici. Il progetto QCOSMO, finanziato dall’UE, si propone di studiare ulteriormente e sfruttare il potenziale computazionale di un sistema innovativo di ioni intrappolati con singoli costituenti complessi: le molecole poliatomiche. La ricerca dovrebbe affrontare l’annosa sfida del controllo e della caratterizzazione di singole molecole poliatomiche a livello quantistico. Le nuove tecniche di controllo quantistico potrebbero rendere le molecole poliatomiche accoppiate a ioni intrappolati una piattaforma versatile per le future tecnologie quantistiche.
Obiettivo
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.
Campo scientifico
- 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
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Meccanismo di finanziamento
ERC-STG - Starting GrantIstituzione ospitante
6020 Innsbruck
Austria