RUI Collaboration: Quantum-Information-Science-Inspired Ultracold Atom Interferometer Design

RUI 合作：受量子信息科学启发的超冷原子干涉仪设计

• 批准号: 1068761
• 负责人: Mark Edwards
• 金额: $ 13.15万
• 依托单位: Georgia Southern University Research and Service Foundation, Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-12-01 至 2016-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1068761&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RUI; Collaboration; Quantum; Information; Science

This theoretical research program, to be performed by a collaboration among Dr. Mark Edwards of Georgia Southern University and researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), an institute run jointly by the University of Maryland and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), will be devoted to the exploration of new ultra-cold atom interferometer designs, inspired by techniques developed in Quantum Information Science, for the avoidance, minimization, and correction of decoherence in quantum computers. These new designs will be targeted toward improving the sensitivity, stability, and robustness of ultra-cold atom interferometers. Applications of such interferometers include enhanced navigation sensing, precision metrology, and quantum information processing.This program will enable two talented Georgia Southern University undergraduate physics majors to gain cutting-edge research experience in the area of ultra-cold atom theory, thus advancing discovery while promoting learning. A Virtual Research Group will be established in which Georgia Southern students will attend the weekly Quantum Information/Bose-Einstein meetings at NIST via the internet. The project will enhance the infrastructure for research and education by maintaining an established collaboration among an undergraduate institution (GA Southern), a national laboratory (NIST), and a major research university (University of Maryland). Broad dissemination to enhance scientific and technological understanding will be accomplished by bringing distinguished scientists to the Georgia Southern University campus to present colloquia and to hold face-to-face research meetings. Finally, development of new interferometric methods for precision sensing using ultracold-atom systems can provide the foundation for a new generation of practical devices that will find applications in navigation, metrology, geodesy, and studies of the fundamental properties of matter.

这一理论研究项目将由乔治亚南方大学的马克·爱德华兹博士和马里兰大学和美国国家标准与技术研究所（NIST）联合运行的联合量子研究所（JQI）的研究人员合作进行，将致力于探索新的超冷原子干涉仪设计，灵感来自量子信息科学中开发的技术，以避免、最小化、以及量子计算机退相干的校正。这些新设计的目标是提高超冷原子干涉仪的灵敏度、稳定性和鲁棒性。这种干涉仪的应用包括增强导航传感、精密计量和量子信息处理。该项目将使两位才华横溢的佐治亚南方大学物理学本科专业学生获得超冷原子理论领域的前沿研究经验，从而在促进学习的同时推进发现。将建立一个虚拟研究小组，佐治亚南方大学的学生将通过互联网参加NIST每周的量子信息/玻色-爱因斯坦会议。该项目将通过维持本科机构（GA Southern）、国家实验室（NIST）和主要研究型大学（马里兰大学）之间的既定合作，加强研究和教育的基础设施。将邀请杰出的科学家到佐治亚南方大学校园举行座谈会和面对面的研究会议，以广泛传播以增进科学和技术的了解。最后，使用超冷原子系统进行精密传感的新干涉测量方法的发展可以为新一代实用设备提供基础，这些设备将在导航、计量、大地测量和物质基本性质的研究中找到应用。