Seminar
Thursday, 27 October, 2011
Group Seminar LMU: Pushing the limits of quantum device performance via optimal control
Thursday, 27.10.2011 10:00 a.m. (s.t.) in H107, Fakultät für Physik LMU
Prof. Tommaso Calarco, Institut für Quanteninformationsverarbeitung, Universität Ulm
The underlying idea of quantum information is that the full power of quantum coherence
has not yet been tapped for technological applications. The exquisite level of control of current atomic physics experiments may enable this — but scalable quantum information processing requires extremely precise operations. Quantum optimal control theory allows to design the evolution of realistic systems in order to attain the best possible performance that is allowed by the laws of quantum mechanics. I will present a range of its applications to a variety of quantum technologies, and discuss its use in probing the ultimate limits to the scales of the corresponding quantum processes, in terms of speed as well as size.