Light, the universe and everything – 12 Herculean tasks for quantum cowboys and black diamond skiers

verfasst von
Girish Agarwal, Roland E. Allen, Iva Bezděková, Robert W. Boyd, Goong Chen, Ronald Hanson, Dean L. Hawthorne, Philip Hemmer, Moochan B. Kim, Olga Kocharovskaya, David M. Lee, Sebastian K. Lidström, Suzy Lidström, Harald Losert, Helmut Maier, John W. Neuberger, Miles J. Padgett, Mark Raizen, Surjeet Rajendran, Ernst Rasel, Wolfgang P. Schleich, Marlan O. Scully, Gavriil Shchedrin, Gennady Shvets, Alexei Sokolov, Anatoly Svidzinsky, Ronald L. Walsworth, Rainer Weiss, Frank Wilczek, Alan E. Willner, Eli Yablonovich, Nikolay Zheludev
Abstract

The Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics (PQE) has been a seminal force in quantum optics and related areas since 1971. It is rather mind-boggling to recognize how the concepts presented at these conferences have transformed scientific understanding and human society. In January 2017, the participants of PQE were asked to consider the equally important prospects for the future, and to formulate a set of questions representing some of the greatest aspirations in this broad field. The result is this multi-authored paper, in which many of the world’s leading experts address the following fundamental questions: (1) What is the future of gravitational wave astronomy? (2) Are there new quantum phases of matter away from equilibrium that can be found and exploited–such as the time crystal? (3) Quantum theory in uncharted territory: What can we learn? (4) What are the ultimate limits for laser photon energies? (5) What are the ultimate limits to temporal, spatial and optical resolution? (6) What novel roles will atoms play in technology? (7) What applications lie ahead for nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond? (8) What is the future of quantum coherence, squeezing and entanglement for enhanced super-resolution and sensing? (9) How can we solve (some of) humanity’s biggest problems through new quantum technologies? (10) What new understanding of materials and biological molecules will result from their dynamical characterization with free-electron lasers? (11) What new technologies and fundamental discoveries might quantum optics achieve by the end of this century? (12) What novel topological structures can be created and employed in quantum optics?.

Organisationseinheit(en)
Institut für Quantenoptik
QUEST Leibniz Forschungsschule
SFB 1227: Designte Quantenzustände der Materie (DQ-mat)
Externe Organisation(en)
Texas A and M University
Czech Technical University
Technical University Ostrava
University of Ottawa
University of Rochester
University of Glasgow
Texas A and M University at Qatar
Cornell University
University of Strathclyde
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Universität Ulm
University of North Texas
University of Texas at Austin
University of California at Berkeley
Baylor University
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Shanghai Jiaotong University
Arizona State University
Stockholm University
University of Southern California
University of Southampton
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Delft University of Technology
Typ
Artikel
Journal
Journal of modern optics
Band
65
Seiten
1261-1308
Anzahl der Seiten
48
ISSN
0950-0340
Publikationsdatum
24.04.2018
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Atom- und Molekularphysik sowie Optik
Elektronische Version(en)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1802.06110 (Zugang: Offen)
https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/421036/1/1802.06110.pdf (Zugang: Offen)
https://doi.org/10.1080/09500340.2018.1454525 (Zugang: Geschlossen)