Conference: NSF/UKRI Bilateral Workshop on Quantum Information Science in Chemistry

在化学系的支持下，普林斯顿大学的格雷格·斯科尔斯教授与一组美国研究人员和英国的合作伙伴共同组织了一次双边研讨会，讨论研究挑战，并在化学和量子信息科学(QIS)之间的界面上解决科学问题。QIS的进步为许多新技术带来了希望，包括安全量子通信、量子计算和量子传感器，这些技术提供了测量物理化学性质的根本新方法。虽然近年来在这些技术的发展方面取得了进展，但围绕支撑QIS的原理(例如纠缠、相干、压缩等)的许多基本问题。留下来。化学家在应对这些挑战和提供利用这些基本过程的新方法方面具有独特的地位。研讨会将汇集美国和英国的研究人员，探索化学系统如何作为研究QIS现象和量子关联的平台，以及如何利用这些现象来获得对分子行为的新见解，并将确定两国研究人员之间建立科学伙伴关系的机会。通过一系列精心组织的分组会议，与会者将探索以下想法：1)QIS带来的新实验和新的实验方法，深入了解QIS现象；2)QIS现象影响化学反应的可能性；以及3)量子关联的检测和量化。研讨会的结果将在一份旨在指导化学社区进行QIS研究的公开报告中描述。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

With support from the Division of Chemistry, Professor Greg Scholes at Princeton University, along with a team of US researchers, and partners in the United Kingdom, is co-organizing a bilateral workshop to discuss research challenges and open scientific questions at the interface between chemistry and quantum information science (QIS). Advancements in QIS hold promise for many new technologies, including secure quantum communication, quantum computing, and quantum sensors that provide fundamentally new ways of measuring physical and chemical properties. While there has been progress in the development of these technologies in recent years, many fundamental questions surrounding the principles that underpin QIS (e.g., entanglement, coherence, squeezing, etc.) remain. Chemists are uniquely positioned to address these challenges and provide new ways of harnessing these fundamental processes. The workshop will bring together researchers from the US and UK to explore ways in which chemical systems could serve as platforms for studying QIS phenomena and quantum correlations, as well as how those phenomena could be used to gain new insight into molecular behavior, and it will identify opportunities for scientific partnerships between researchers in the two Nations. Through a series of carefully organized breakout sessions, participants will explore ideas for: 1) new experiments enabled by QIS and new experimental methodologies that give insight into QIS phenomena; 2) the potential for QIS phenomena to affect chemical reactivity; as well as 3) the detection and quantification of quantum correlations. The workshop outcomes will be described in a public report meant to guide the chemistry community in QIS research.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.