Photonic Quantum Control Technologies

20世纪初量子力学的引入使我们对自然的理解发生了根本性的变化。虽然经典物理支配着我们周围宏观世界中最熟悉的元素，但电子、原子和分子的微观行为是量子力学的领域。量子力学表现出许多独特的特征--不确定性、叠加和纠缠--这些在经典世界中几乎没有类似之处。我们现在知道，这些量子特征可以用来开发新的量子技术，这是经典物理学无法想象的。为了建立量子技术，我们必须开发操纵这些量子系统的方法。这项提议的目的是研究通过使用激光脉冲来控制量子系统，然后利用这些可控的量子系统来开发新技术。

The introduction of quantum mechanics early in the 20th century led to a radical change in our understanding of Nature. While classical physics governs the most familiar elements of the macroscopic world around us, the microscopic behaviour of electrons, atoms, and molecules is the realm of quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics exhibits a host of unique features - uncertainty, superposition, and entanglement - that have little analogue in the classical world. We now understand that these quantum features can be utilized to develop new Quantum Technologies, impossible to imagine with classical physics. In order to build Quantum Technologies we must develop methods for manipulating these quantum systems. The purpose of this proposal is to investigate the control of quantum systems through the use of laser pulses and then to use these controllable quantum systems to develop new technologies.