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

这项理论研究计划将由南乔治亚大学的Mark Edwards博士和联合量子研究所(JQI)的研究人员合作实施，JQI是马里兰大学和国家标准与技术研究所(NIST)联合运营的研究所，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开发的技术，用于避免、最小化和校正量子计算机中的退相干。这些新设计的目标是提高超冷原子干涉仪的灵敏度、稳定性和稳健性。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。该项目将使两名有才华的佐治亚南方大学物理专业本科生在超冷原子理论领域获得前沿研究经验，从而在促进发现的同时促进学习。将建立一个虚拟研究小组，佐治亚州南部的学生将通过互联网参加NIST每周举行的量子信息/玻色-爱因斯坦会议。该项目将通过维持一个本科机构(GA Southern)、一个国家实验室(NIST)和一个主要研究型大学(马里兰大学)之间的既定合作，加强研究和教育的基础设施。将通过邀请杰出的科学家到佐治亚州南部大学校园介绍座谈会和举行面对面的研究会议来实现广泛传播，以增进对科学和技术的了解。最后，利用超冷原子系统开发用于精密传感的新的干涉测量方法，可以为新一代实用设备提供基础，这些设备将在导航、计量学、大地测量学和物质基本性质的研究中得到应用。

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.