| Research Abstract |
We have made an impact in this field by proposing several phenomena in this rapidly advancing field. We not only studied phenomena analogous to those in atomic physics and quantum optics with natural atoms, but also analyzed those not occurring in natural atoms. Our studies explored various new research directions in this emerging interdisciplinary field.
We also studied interferometry, in various types of SC circuits, for various driving rates, and operating conditions.
It is important to emphasize that our work has been evaluated hundreds of times by several hundreds of top experts.
We are evaluated by referees all the time, and their overall vote is very positive, for very good journals in physics.
Journal editors also notice these positive evaluations, and then invite us to submit papers to their journals.
Results on quantum information processing, superconducting circuits, and other related topics, include these: The transition from quantum Zeno to anti-Zeno effects for a qubit in a cavity by varying the cavity frequency (Phys. Lett. A 376, 349-357 (2012), QuTiP: An open-source Python framework for the dynamics of open quantum systems (Comp. Phys. Comm. 183, 1760 (2012), Two-qubit parametric amplifier: Large amplification of weak signals (Phys. Rev. A 85, 013811 (2012), Colloquium: Stimulating uncertainty: Amplifying the quantum vacuum with superconducting circuits (Rev. Mod. Phys. 84, 1-24 (2012), Implementing general measurements on linear optical and solid-state qubits (Phys. Rev. A 85, 043808 (2012).
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
1: Research has progressed more than it was originally planned.
Reason
Initially, we did not expect that our paper on quantum aspects of biology [Nature Physics 9, (2013)] would become:
the most read paper in Nature Physics, from Dec-2012 to Febr-2013; the most emailed paper in Nature Physics, for Dec-2012 and Jan-2013; listed on the cover of that issue; and has had more than 11,000 page views (and 45 Tweets) in its first four months online. This happens very rarely. We did not expect to have four papers published in Physics Reports in the past three years (one has 50% of it original results, and another one about 80% original results) and almost all top 1% ISI papers. We did not expect this S-Kiban proposal to support the publication of five top 1% ISI cited papers. Most scientists have zero top 1% cites papers throughout their entire careers, let alone five published in 2011.
By any standards (# of citations, # of top 1% papers in the past few years, # of PRLs, # of PRAs, # of Science and Nature journal papers, etc.) our impact and productivity are outstanding. 14 of our papers are listed by ISI as top 1% in Physics.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
We have achieved more than we had imagined we would achieve. The goal now is to identify additional problems which are
interesting (to the referees, the leaders, collaborators, and colleagues). Some of these ideas are already posted in the arxiv, while others require further explorations.
We study various types of problems at the interface between atomic physics, quantum optics, quantum information, computer science, computing, condensed matter, and nano-science. Sometimes we also study electron and proton quantum transport in biological systems, but this is not our main focus (and this is also studied by leading theorists in quantum information now, like: Cirac, Briegel, Plenio, Vedral, and many others). To study these complex systems requires a multi-disciplinary approach (very hyper-focused approaches will fail to link such diverse set of studies, and those links are precisely what we wish to explore; not boring hyper-technical details most readers do not care about). It also requires a heterogeneous group of collaborators from all over (homogeneous teams, with only CM theorists, might produce more homogeneous results).
In the case of hybrid quantum circuits, many areas of physics come together, not just one area. We plan to explore various ways to best couple these systems together and to improve the degree of quantum control over these systems.
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