Quantum Structured Waves - QSW

Karimi博士的结构量子光学（SQO）小组专注于结构量子波（如光束和电子束）的产生、检测和操纵及其在现代科学中的应用。这涉及操纵和工程波的矢量性质，强度和相位分布传播时，或在所需的区域。处于基础量子物理学和应用科学的交叉点上，我们期待着从这样一个新颖的、尚未完全探索的物理学研究分支中出现重要的进展。SQO团队已经被社区公认为世界级的研究团队，他们取得的重大成就证明了这一点，新闻媒体经常强调这一点。在未来五年，我们的目标是：1）设计和制造用于定制光的量子/经典状态的薄或超薄液晶和/或等离子体光学器件，2）设计新颖器件以利用结构化光子执行量子信息协议/量子计算，3）设计用于超安全量子通信的新颖平台（量子密钥分配），以及4）利用包括电子/离子束的结构化量子波来开发量子物理学的基本测试。

The Structural Quantum Optics (SQO) group of Dr. Karimi focuses on the generation, detection and manipulation of the structured quantum waves, e.g. light and electron beams, and their applications in modern science. This involves manipulating and engineering waves' vectorial nature, intensity and phase distributions upon propagation, or in desired regions. Lying at the intersection of fundamental quantum physics and applied science, we expect important advances to emerge from such a novel, and not yet fully explored, research branch of physics. The SQO team is already well-recognized by the community as a world-class research group, as evidenced by their significant achievements, which are frequently highlighted by news outlets. During the next five years, we aim to: 1) design and fabricate of thin or ultra-thin liquid-crystal and/or plasmonic optical devices for tailoring the quantum/classical state of light, 2) design novel devices to perform quantum information protocols/quantum computations with structured photons, 3) design a novel platform for ultra-secure quantum communication (quantum key distribution) with structured photons, and 4) exploit fundamental tests of quantum physics with structured quantum waves including electron/ion beams.