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UVa BoV, 12/06/2018
Olivier Pfister, Ph.D.Professor of Physics
College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Quantum Photonics:a quantum leap for UVA
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China’s Sputnik Moment: “Quantum” Satellite
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UVa BoV, 12/06/2018
The National Quantum Initiative
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UVa BoV, 12/06/2018
The U.S. National Quantum Initiativein numbers
$1.3B total for Academia, Government Labs and Industry
National Science Foundation: $250M for 5-year Multidisciplinary Centers for Quantum Research and Education
Department of Energy: $100M program in 2019. Quantum Centers in 2020
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The U.S. National Quantum Initiative
Approved unanimously by US House of Representatives on
Sept 13, 2018
Supported by White House
Now waiting for U.S. Senate for final vote
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What is Quantum?
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What is Quantum?
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One wave Two waves: interference
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Waves and particles: LIGHT
Light interference Photon by photon?
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Wave and Particle: The Tao of Niels Bohr
from: J.M. Lévy-Leblond & F. Balibar, "Quantics"
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(from: J.M. Lévy-Leblond)
"If you think you understand quantum..." [Feynman]
particle
particle
particle
wave
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UVa BoV, 12/06/2018 (from: J.M. Lévy-Leblond)
Duck?
Fox?
Platypus 😬😬 (ThinQ!)
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LIGO: A Quantum Sensor of Gravitational Waves
Laser
4 km of vacuum
tubesuspendedmirrors
Light interference = signalPhoton count statistics = noise
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Quantum Computing? A Story of Quantum Bits
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Quantum computers promise exponential speedup
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For National Security
Peter Shor (1994)Breaking RSA encryption
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For Simulating Quantum Systems
Richard Feynman (1982)Quantum Materials: Room-T superconductorsQuantum Chemistry: Efficient Nitrogen fixation. Carbon sequestrationBiology and Medicine: Protein folding. Brain models. Drug Discovery
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• doesn't exist (yet)
• requires "clean" (error-free) qubits...
... LOTS of them
A Real Quantum Computer
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Integrated ElectronicsWe crammed billions of these
1956 Nobel Prize
into this
2000 Nobel Prize
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Quantum PhotonicsCan we cram a lot of these into this?
Nils Otterstrom/Yale/AAAS
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
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Quantum Engineering
TRANSDISCIPLINARY
CONVERGENT
(NSF’s words)
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Quantum Photonics at UVA
~$2.5M(Just won
3 NSF RAISE)6 postdocs18 grads
Andreas Beling (ECE)
Joe Campbell (ECE)
Xu Yi (ECE)
Olivier Pfister (Physics)
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UVa BoV, 12/06/2018 Final Thoughts