MRI-R2: Laser Acquisition and Modernization Program (LAMP) for Quantum Science and Engineering

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该奖项是为了在麻省理工学院建立LAMP设施的设备采购计划，以提供从近紫外到红外频率范围内的强烈，超稳定的光源，参考固定在绝对频率标准的光学频率梳。该设备由主频梳、强锁频光源和界面激光器三个子系统组成。主梳将采用钛蓝宝石激光梳、光纤激光梳和现有的频率参考；光源将使用波长从323nm到1.5&#956；m的激光。界面激光器将利用激光来创建可相干控制的原子和固体系统。LAMP建立在麻省理工学院的两个主要NSF项目的基础上，一个是超冷原子中心（CUA），一个是物理前沿中心，另一个是跨学科量子信息科学与工程，一个是综合研究生教育、研究和培训（IGERT）项目；这些活动横跨五个系，涉及约100名学生和员工。该设施将使量子科学前沿的重大新探索成为可能，包括实现由极性分子组成的新量子系统，这些分子具有强的偶极子-偶极子相互作用。在纳米开尔文温度下，这些分子可能形成一种新形式的物质，一种超固体，允许研究纳米开尔文化学，为量子信息科学提供量子比特，与其他量子门方法相比具有明显的优势。LAMP还允许在低温离子阱中对冷离子进行新颖的操作，将这项研究提升到一个新的水平，实现大规模量子计算机和远距离相干量子互连。LAMP设施的更广泛方面包括通过LAMP LITE（一个让研究人员使用该仪器的技术交流项目）接触广泛的研究和教学社区，以及通过加强现有的努力，如涉及高中生和未来高中教师的CUA物理科学教学机会项目。少数民族院校的学生也可获得LAMP课程。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This award is for an equipment acquisition program to establish the LAMP Facility at MIT, to provide intense, ultra-stable, optical sources from the near ultraviolet to the infrared frequency range, referenced to optical frequency combs anchored to an absolute frequency standard. The equipment is composed of three subsystems: the master frequency comb, the intense frequency locked light sources, and the interface lasers. The master comb will employ Ti:Sapphire laser based combs, fiber laser combs, and existing frequency references; the light sources will employ lasers at wavelengths ranging from 323nm to 1.5μm; and the interface lasers will employ lasers for creation of atomic and solid state systems which can be coherently controlled. LAMP builds on two major NSF programs at MIT, the Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA), a Physics Frontier Center, and Interdisciplinary Quantum Information Science and Engineering, an Integrative Graduate Education, Research, and Training (IGERT) program; together, these activities span five departments and involve over ~100 students and staff. The facility will enable major new explorations at the frontier of quantum science, including the realization of new quantum systems made of polar molecules, which have strong dipole-dipole interactions. At nanokelvin temperatures, these molecules may form a new form of matter, a supersolid, allowing studies of nanokelvin chemistry, providing qubits for quantum information science with distinct advantages over other approaches to quantum gates. LAMP also allows novel manipulations of cold ions in cryogenic ion trap, bringing this research to the next level, the realization of large-scale quantum computers, and long-distance, coherent quantum interconnects.The broader aspects of the LAMP facility include reaching out to the broad research and teaching community through LAMP LITE, a technical exchange program for researchers to access the instrument, and through enhancement of established efforts such as the CUA Teaching Opportunities in Physical Sciences program involving high school students and prospective high school teachers. LAMP is also made available to students from minority institutions.