Klaus Mølmer, one of our current Visiting Fellows, will be giving a talk on Tuesday, 4/25 at 2 pm in the JILA Auditorium. Please mark your calendars and come hear about Dr. Mølmer’s work! There will also be a reception with cake in the h-bar (3rd floor, X-wing) following the talk.
Abstract: With the scaling of quantum technologies to involve systems with many separate material quantum components, we may have recourse to couple these components by quantum radiation of light, microwaves or phonons. In future optical quantum processors, we may – conversely - need to manipulate the quantum states of radiation pulses by their interaction with non-linear stationary quantum components.
While several physical processes have been proposed and already demonstrated for these tasks, there are rather fundamental obstacles to, e.g., merely interchange flying and stationary qubits in circuits for quantum computing. These obstacles include the general multimode character of propagating fields and the duration and spatial extent of useful light and microwave pulses.
In the talk I will present new methods to deal theoretically with these obstacles, and I will present examples of new, unforeseen, possibilities for preparation and manipulation “on the fly” of useful quantum states of light and matter.