Development of novel quantum vacuum-based electronic devices platform and enabling its microfabrication methods.

量子材料（QMs）是突破性研究的温床。当与共振纳米腔等工程结构相结合时，就会产生具有高度新颖性质的耦合光物质态，可以通过工程设计来创造新的独特技术。这些耦合的混合态的控制已经证明了在量子信息以及在纳米电子学、光电子学、传感器、光子源，甚至真空诱导化学中的应用的高潜力。我们的工业合作伙伴Infinite Potential Laboratories准备利用量子制造科学的最新进展，特别是为量子信息处理（QIP）中基于真空的应用开发新技术。 UdeS研究人员和IPL之间的合作伙伴关系的目标是开发一个创新的量子真空电子平台，以确认和表征强耦合光物质系统中的QIP。该联盟项目的目标是：i）开发制造新型纳米结构的专业知识，使纳米腔中的QM表面能够实现强耦合和控制; ii）展示基于这些新型强耦合光物质结构的概念验证设备，为实际量子系统铺平道路。 该项目中开发的纳米纤维工艺将特别有利于：i）纳米等离子体，量子化学处理和催化的新兴领域; ii）通过量子控制设备的QIP; iii）通过提供独特的基础设施来研究物质的超快动态杂化状态，整个加拿大量子社区。

Quantum materials (QMs) are a hotbed for ground-breaking research. When combined with engineered structures such as resonant nanocavities, coupled light-matter states with highly novel properties result which can be engineered to create new and unique technologies. The control of these coupled hybrid states has demonstrated a high potential for applications in quantum information as well as in nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, sensors, photon sources, and even vacuum induced chemistry. Our industrial partner, Infinite Potential Laboratories is poised to take advantage of the latest progress in quantum fabrication science, in particular to develop new technologies for vacuum-based applications in quantum information processing (QIP). The goal of this partnership between UdeS researchers and IPL is to develop an innovative quantum vacuum-based electronic platform to confirm and characterize the QIP in strongly coupled light-matter systems. The objectives of this Alliance project are: i) develop the expertise to fabricate novel nano structures that enable strong coupling and control of QM surfaces in nanocavities; ii) demonstrate proof of concept devices based on these novel strongly coupled light-matter structures that will pave the way to practical quantum systems. The nanofabrication processes developed in the project will be a particularly beneficial for: i) the emerging fields of nanoplasmonics, quantum chemical processing and catalysis; ii) QIP through a quantum control device; iii) the Canadian quantum community at large by providing a unique infrastructure to study ultrafast dynamic hybridized states of matter.