We use light to control quantum objects.
Our qubits are single atoms and atom-like defects in crystals, controlled with lasers and radio waves, all precisely orchestrated with FPGAs. We buy the control hardware where good hardware exists and develop it (ideally in an open-source manner) where it doesn’t. Then we integrate the pieces into working systems. Integration is extremely important: system-level performance comes from how the pieces fit together.
Two broad questions drive our research:
What is this kind of control good for? We pursue quantum computing with arrays of neutral atoms, long-lived quantum memory in nuclear spins, and quantum sensing.
And how far does it go? Every system has a limit, and we aim to find out what sets it. If the answer is physics, that’s a result. If it’s the optics or the electronics, we build what it takes to move the limit and then measure the new one.
The nuclear-spin work is joint with Kai-Mei Fu’s Quantum Defect Lab, on a shared testbed in the QT3 Lab.
Located in the Paul Allen Center at the University of Washington.
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