QSI-PHYSICS Special Colloquium: Matthew Doty (Univ. of Delaware)

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Material and Device Foundations for Scalable Quantum Photonic Technologies

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The “Second Quantum Revolution” promises a wide range of technological advances, including fundamentally secure information transmission, quantum computers that can outperform even the most powerful classical supercomputer, and new sensing methods for detecting everything from dark matter to magnetic activity in the human brain. There has been amazing progress toward realizing this promise, but many fundamental science and engineering challenges remain. I will start with a brief introduction to quantum technologies and review some the challenges to realizing these technologies at scale. I will then focus on photonic quantum technologies and show how the synthesis of new materials enabled the discovery of new physics that, in turn, enabled the design of new devices that could overcome several important scaling limits. I will close with a brief description of UD’s graduate degree program in Quantum Science and Engineering, which trains a workforce that can attack such technological challenges from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Time/Location: 11:00am / Physics Building room 401