Towards a Chip-Based Architecture for the Production and Study of Ultracold Molecular Ions

用于超冷分子离子生产和研究的基于芯片的架构

• 批准号: 1205311
• 负责人: Eric Hudson
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-15 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1205311&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Towards; Chip; Based; Architecture; Production

This project seeks to develop techniques, amenable to microfabricated deployment (i.e. microchips), for manipulating and producing charged molecules at temperatures less than 1/1000 K. The ability to produce a sample of molecular ions at these temperatures should facilitate a number of scientific advances, including the study and possible control of chemistry in the quantum regime; a better understanding of charge transport; new probes of quantum matter; insights into the formation of interstellar clouds; and precision measurement of molecular transitions and structure for test of fundamental physics. Further, if these methods can be implemented in a microfabricated architecture, they may enable significant advances towards important technologies, such as chemistry-lab-on-a-chip devices envisioned for portable, high-throughput chemical sensing and the implementation of a robust, scalable quantum computation device.The broader impact of this work extends beyond the obvious effects of the new science and technology that may result, as currently four PhD students are being trained for careers in science and technology on this project. Further, this project involves a significant undergraduate research component aimed to increase and maintain enrollment of underrepresented groups in science and technology majors. An additional goal of the project is to leverage the fact that the involved techniques, such as lasers, are captivating to young students to facilitate outreach to and recruitment into STEM majors of local underrepresented groups.

该项目旨在开发适合微制造部署（即微芯片）的技术，用于在低于 1/1000 K 的温度下操纵和产生带电分子。在这些温度下产生分子离子样本的能力将促进许多科学进步，包括量子领域化学的研究和可能的控制；更好地理解电荷传输；量子物质的新探测器；深入了解星际云的形成；以及用于基础物理测试的分子跃迁和结构的精密测量。此外，如果这些方法可以在微制造架构中实现，它们可能会推动重要技术的重大进步，例如用于便携式、高通量化学传感的芯片化学实验室设备以及强大的、可扩展的量子计算设备的实现。这项工作的更广泛影响超出了可能产生的新科学和技术的明显影响，因为目前有四名博士生正在接受以下职业培训： 该项目的科学技术。此外，该项目涉及重要的本科生研究部分，旨在增加和维持科学技术专业中代表性不足群体的入学率。该项目的另一个目标是利用激光等所涉及的技术对年轻学生的吸引力，以促进当地代表性不足群体的 STEM 专业的推广和招募。