Quantum-Coherent Nanoscience
Abstract
For the past three decades, nanoscience has widely affected many areas in physics, chemistry, and engineering, and has led to numerous fundamental discoveries as well as applications and products. Concurrently, quantum science and technology has developed into a cross-disciplinary research endeavour connecting these same areas and holds a burgeoning commercial promise. Although quantum physics dictates the behaviour of nanoscale objects, quantum coherence, which is central to quantum information, communication and sensing has not played an explicit role in much of nanoscience. This Review describes fundamental principles and practical applications of quantum coherence in nanoscale systems, a research area we call quantum-coherent nanoscience. We structure this manuscript according to specific degrees of freedom that can be quantum-coherently controlled in a given nanoscale system such as charge, spin, mechanical motion, and photons. We review the current state of the art and focus on outstanding challenges and opportunities unlocked by the merging of nanoscience and coherent quantum operations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2202.01431,
title = {Quantum-Coherent Nanoscience},
author = {Andreas J. Heinrich and William D. Oliver and Lieven Vandersypen and Arzhang Ardavan and Roberta Sessoli and Daniel Loss and Ania Bleszynski Jayich and Joaquin Fernandez-Rossier and Arne Laucht and Andrea Morello},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.01431},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
34 pages, 6 figures, 2 boxes