Scientists believe we are living in the Second Quantum Revolution, a period of rapid advances in technology based on discoveries in quantum science. Companies from IBM and Google to small startups are eager to create and perfect these new technologies—and that requires training a new kind of workforce.
JILA Fellow Cindy Regal has been named the first recipient of the Baur-SPIE Endowed Chair in Optics and Photonics, JILA's first-ever endowed chair position. Regal's group at JILA pursues a wide range of research in optics and photonics, particularly employing lasers to control and probe quantum objects.
Professor Lewandowski's group studies collisions and reactions of simple cold molecules, with the ultimate goal to understand the quantum mechanical processes involved in making and breaking a chemical bond. Her group aims to control the reacting molecules external and internal degrees of freedom in the quantum regime.
QuApps 2021 will present and discuss relevant applications material properties and process technologies for quantum applications—from both the engineering and market points of view. Prominent keynote speakers will provide insights into potential markets and relevant technologies that will reach, or already have reached, market maturity. The range of topics extend from quantum applications in markets such as quantum sensing, processing of quantum materials, metrology or communication to peripheral and enabling technologies.
March 15-19, 2021 | Virtual Registration opens on December 7
Attendees representing 30 American Physical Society (APS) units and committees will convene for the 2021 APS March Meeting. Showcase your work for a global audience of physicists, scientists and students and explore groundbreaking research from industry, academia and major labs.
There are many practical and theoretical challenges in the emerging area of quantum information and computing, which seeks to make effective use of the information embedded in the state of a quantum system, and promises to solve previously intractable computational problems and revolutionize simulation. The engineering ambition is two-fold. The first is to come up with computational hardware that sidesteps the physical limits on computational power of existing computer technologies, which are ultimately constrained by limits on the energy dissipated as the physical size of the building blocks of computational circuitry approaches a few nanometers. The second is the construction of ultrasensitive devices to detect biological and chemical changes. In parallel with the practical difficulties, new theory is required to understand the advantages and limitations of quantum media.