The 903rd IMS colloquium

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Lecture Title	"Rydberg enabled quantum technologies"
Date	Friday 14 April 2017 16:00
Lecturer	Prof. Dieter Jaksch (Department of Physics, University of Oxford)
Place	IMS Research Building Room 201
Summary	I will discuss recent progress in exploiting the unique properties of Rydberg atoms in quantum technologies. I will first show how controllable and strong dipole-dipole interactions between Rydberg excited atoms can be used in quantum simulations of few- and many-body physics in the strongly correlated limit. The experimental state-of-the-art makes it possible now to think about extending these ideas to fully coherent quantum annealing devices that would be capable of efficiently solving computationally hard optimization problems. I will then present a scheme for coherent frequency interconversion between optical and microwave radiation. This is based on the large dipole moment and life-time of a Rydberg atom and has the potential to act as an interface between different quantum technology platforms in networked architectures. For more information: The 903rd IMS colloquium
Other	Contact : Kenji Ohmori (Department of Photo-Molecular Science) Takeshi Yanai & Takao Fuji (IMS colloquium FY2017 committee)

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