Project Details
The transformative success of technologies that has driven the information age has been built on our fundamental understanding and abilities to manipulate chemical composition and doping, and hence electronic band structure and electrochemical potential of electrons, within materials at minute length scales, encode local electronic properties as the physical instantiation of information, and thus control the storage, flow, and processing of information. Within the emerging quantum information revolution, breakthroughs will be driven by the ability to harness the interplay and evolution of quantum entangled and coherent ensembles for physical representation and processing of information1. This will provide radically new opportunities in computation enabling exponentially higher speeds and efficiencies and the ability to solve problems that are currently intractable by currently available approaches. Beyond computing applications, the extreme sensitivity of quantum systems (QS) to external perturbations will provide sensors for ultrasensitive measurements of phenomena ranging from magnetic flux quanta, to single microwave photons, to states of entangled quantum systems, hence providing new insight into natural phenomena from Planck to cosmic length scales. Just as achieving control over the physical, chemical, and electronic properties of semiconductors was instrumental to the rise of the current information age, the key to success in the development and application of quantum information sciences (QIS) is to search for and develop high-performance physical systems that can host the emergence, persistence, evolution, flow, and access of information encoded in quantum states. Such advances will have an important impact in understanding local quantum
functionalities in a broad range of physics phenomena including superconductivity and the nature of strongly correlated states.
