| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
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 occur ring in natural atoms. Our studies explored various new research directions in this emerging interdisciplinary field. 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.
Results for FY 2013 include these: Hybrid quantum circuits: Superconducting circuits interacting with other quantum systems [Rev. Mod. Phys. 85 (2), 623 (2013). Citation rate: top 0.01% for all papers in physics, since 2013]; Dual electromagnetism [New J. Phys. 15, 033026 (2013), Top 1% cited]; QuTiP 2: A Python framework for the dynamics of open quantum systems [Comp. Phys. Comm. 184, 1234 (2013), Top 1% cited]; Self-Propelled Janus Particles [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 268301 (2013) Top 1% cited]; Quantum biology [Nature Physics 9, 10-18 (2013). Top 1% cited. According to the journal, this was the most read and most emailed paper in Nature Physics, during early 2013].
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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 and most emailed paper in Nature Physics for 2013. It has been downloaded more than 26,000 times, and tweeted about 66 times. This happens very rarely. We did not expect that our work on “Hybrid quantum circuits”, Rev. Mod. Phys. 85, 623 (2013), would become top 0.01% cited paper. We did not expect this S-Kiban proposal to support the publication of over 20 top 1% cited papers in all areas of Physics, according to the Web of Science (WoS). Most scientists have zero top 1% cites papers throughout their entire careers, let alone over 20 published in the past decade. By any conceivable measure (# of citations, # of top 1% papers in the past few years, # of PRLs, # of PRAs and PRBs, # of Science and Nature journal papers, etc.) the impact and productivity of our group are outstanding.
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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, compute r 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 precise ly 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, will likely 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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