Fabrication and Characterization of Quantum Nanostructures

光粒子(光子)，可以在单光子水平上，同时以多种能量状态存在。如果利用得当，这将使我们能够建造比传统计算机快得多的新计算机(称为量子计算机)，传统计算机依赖于基于电子电荷的信息存储。要设想一种新的高效可靠的量子计算机，我们需要优秀的材料。通过制造非常薄的材料并控制光与它们相互作用的方式，我们可能能够写入、读取和存储量子信息。我们将与爱荷华大学的物理学同事合作，使用先进的显微镜来制造这些材料并对其成像，他们将生长并测量这些非常薄的材料的量子性质。做到这一点所获得的技术进步和知识将帮助加拿大开发一类新的量子技术和平台。混合量子量子比特的成功演示将为加拿大努力开发的量子技术奠定坚实的基础。量子计算机的最终好处以及能够在计算机中可靠地利用光的量子态的能力，是开发设备的能力，这些设备可以帮助应对密码学和网络安全、生物和化学模拟等计算挑战，以设计新的分子和反应，所有这些对加拿大的福利和安全都很重要。

Light particles (photons), can, at the single photon level, exist in multiple energy states at the same time. When harnessed properly, this would allow us to build new computers (called quantum computers) that are much faster than conventional computers which rely on information storage based on the charge of electrons. To envisage a new class of efficient and reliable quantum computers, we need excellent materials. By making very thin materials and controlling how light interacts with them, we might be able to write, read and store quantum information. We will use advanced microscopes to make and image these materials, in collaboration with our physics colleagues at the University of Iowa, who will grow and measure the quantum properties of these very thin materials. The technological advancement and knowledge acquired to do this will help Canada develop a new class of quantum technologies and platforms. Successful demonstration of hybrid quantum qubits will lay a strong foundation for the quantum technologies Canada strives to develop.The ultimate benefit of quantum computers and being able to harness quantum states of light reliably in a computer is the ability to develop devices that could help with such computational challenges as cryptography and cybersecurity, biology and chemical simulations to design new molecules and reactions, all important for Canadian welfare and security.