Eclectic Studies in Quantum Information: Circuit QED and the Unruh Effect, Entanglement Degradation in Causal Diamonds and Conformal Quantum Mechanics Aspects of Quantum Chaos
Abstract
The research and training agenda proposed here provides an effective and productive pathway to develop capacity in Quantum Information Science and Engineering (QISE) at the University of Houston (UH), and it fulfills the ArmyÕs aims to Ò(a) enhance research programs and capabilities in scientific and engineering disciplines critical to the national security functions of DoD; (b) enhance the capacity of HBCU/MI to participate in DoD research programs and activities; and (c) increase the number of graduates, including underrepresented minorities, in fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) important to the defense mission.Ó The PI of this proposal will partner with a QISE expert from Dartmouth College, Professor Miles Blencowe, and his longtime collaborator, Professor Horacio Camblong from the University of San Francisco, to engage in the projects mentioned below and create research outputs that are more than just the sum of its parts, and which will continuously increase his overall capacity in QISE. The PI will actively involve his students and a postdoctoral Fellow at UH in all the proposed projects, and will, when convenient, seek out other external collaborations. Given the PIÕs background, a set of problems in Relativistic Quantum Information (RQI) will be addressing issues of current interest in the field, such as the Circuit QED and the Unruh effect, Hawking radiation, thermal aspects of causal diamonds, Conformal Quantum Mechanics aspects of quantum chaos, etc., always trying to extract lessons that could be useful for experimental aspects of Quantum Information (QI) and Quantum Computing (QC). Members of the group will be assigned to collaborate in more than one problem at a time, if possible (involving the students and the postdoc), combining their individual strengths in a synergistic fashion in the problems proposed here (mentioned above). The PI will be overseeing and coordinating all the projects. The largely theory-oriented community working in RQI and on the other side, experimentalists working in QI currently do not overlap much in terms of awareness of each otherÕs work and motivations. The PI and his group feel that this can be in part addressed by proposing RQI-inspired devices that demonstrate superior advantages for QI applications; only then will the devices have a chance to be realized, with, e.g., the successful demonstration of a photon analogue of Hawking radiation as a Ôside-benefitÕ. This constant effort to connect RQI with general QI and QC will be the hallmark of the work of this group led by the PI. It should be noted that the PI is a national leader in advocacy for Hispanics in physics (he co-founded the National Society of Hispanic Physicists in 1996) and in international collaborations in physics, especially throughout the Americas (he was awarded the prestigious John Wheatley Award by the American Physical Society (APS) in 2009, the same year he was elected as a Fellow of the APS; this award recognizes work by APS members on the international arena).
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jul 28, 2023
- Source ID
- W911NF2310202
Entities
People
- Carlos Ordonez
Organizations
- Army Contracting Command
- Office of the Secretary of Defense
- University of Houston