Quantum Dynamic Control of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Processes

The Project represents a coordinated experimental/theoretical effort in developing and testing

quantum protocols. Within a worldwide academy and industry effort to develop quantum

computers, based on quantum qubits and quantum Hamiltonian, the quantum protocols, i.e. well

designed Hamiltonian acting on the qubits, represent important steps. Even if the qubits offer

enormous computation power, the quantum target may be reached more efficiently, more rapidly

and with more stability using properly designed quantum protocols. Within this Project These new

protocols will be tested on the natural qubits easily assessed in worldwide research laboratories:

simple atoms and molecules. The experimental and theoretical tools should be classified with the

broad area of quantum optics, where the photons, typically from laser sources, create the control

quantum protocols, and the atoms/molecules constitute the qubits where quantum information is

stored and maipulated. The Project will apply this quantum control approach to open theoretical

and experimental problems such as: implementation of a molecular all-optical spin switch via

control of spin-orbit interaction, realization of molecular orientation, superadiabatic protocols

for the coherent control of cold atoms and molecule, control of ultracold chemical reactions,

and spin-polarized quantum emitters.

The objectives of the project will be achieved via an intensive transfer of knowledge

among the EU and TC participants in the consortium during the carefully planned secondments.

The consortium members are well established specialists in various aspects of physics of light-matter

interactions, including theoretical, experimental and numerical techniques, and therefore

all participants will benefit from the SE scheme for staff exchange to collaborate and achieve

new results in this area. The gender balance in the consortium is well kept, with three of the team

leaders being female.