Designer Quantum Materials
Quantum mechanics permits far more exotic states of matter than the gases, liquids, solids, and plasmas used in current technology.
This program aims to realise new phases of quantum matter by scaling up today’s isolated quantum components and engineering highly entangled, strongly interacting quantum systems, with individual control and measurement of each component.
Our researchers will build large-scale arrays of trapped ions, electrons in semiconductor devices, Josephson junctions in superconducting circuits, and photons produced by quantum dots and photonic bandgap cavities. Such quantum arrays with tens or hundreds of individual components can be configured to create complex quantum materials never realised in nature.
These materials will have many applications, notably performing analogue simulations to solve hard problems in physics and chemistry: technically, solving strong-correlation problems to model exotic materials like superconductors, and understand transition-metacompounds, bond-breaking and single-molecule magnets.
Within the designer quantum materials program, our research projects include:
Realisation of topologically ordered state using a two-dimensional array of coupled semiconductor quantum dots
Analogue quantum simulation using open loop quantum control of trapped ions
Artificial field theories using fluxonium lattices
Large scale entanglement quantum photonics
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The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS) acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and their continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders past and present.