Complexity, Entropy, and the Physics of Information Lecture Series
Wednesday, January 19, 2005, 5:00 PM. Refreshments 4:15 PM.
Robert N. Noyce Conference Room, Santa Fe Insitute
H. Jeff Kimble
Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology
Title: Quantum Information Enabled by Quantum Optics
Abstract: Across a broad front in physics, an exciting advance in recent years has been the increasing ability to observe and manipulate the dynamical processes of individual quantum systems. In this endeavor, an important physical system has been a single atom strongly coupled to the electromagnetic field of a high-Q cavity within the setting of cavity quantum electrodynamics (cavity QED). Diverse new phenomena in cavity QED include the realization of nonlinear interactions between single photons and the development of a laser in a regime of strong coupling that operates with “one-and-the-same-atom”. Because of several unique advantages, cavity QED is playing an important role in the new science of quantum information, such as for the realization of complex quantum networks and for the investigation of quantum dynamics of single quantum systems. This presentation will give an overview of recent developments in cavity QED and several other areas in Quantum Optics that are providing enabling capabilities for Quantum Information Science.
O brave new quantum world!