Digital Materials Team

Team Leader
Franco NORI (Ph.D.)
We perform research work in theoretical condensed matter physics, including quantum information processing, computational physics, transport phenomena (e.g., of vortices, electrons, grains), energy-conversion and solar energy, as well as the dynamics of complex systems. Our research work is interdisciplinary and also explores the interface between atomic physics, quantum optics, nano-science, and computing. We are also studying artificial photosynthesis, light-to-electricity conversion, nano-mechanics, hybrid quantum electro-mechanical systems, quantum nano-electronics, and quantum emulators. Particular emphasis is being placed on superconducting Josephson-junction qubits, scalable quantum circuitry, and improved designs for their quantum control. An underlying theme of our work is to better understand nano-scale quantum systems and devise methods to control them. We use physical models to make predictions that can be tested experimentally and that can be used to better understand the observed phenomena.
- Condensed matter physics; Computational physics; Complex systems
- Quantum computing. Quantum information processing.
- Superconducting qubits. Artificial atoms.
- Interface between atomic physics, quantum optics, and condensed matter physics.
- Vortex dynamics in superconductors
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- October 02, 2009
- Quantum Simulators: One system to simulate another
- December 17, 2010
- Quantum or not?
Mathematical equations can now resolve whether electron transport in nanostructures follows classical or quantum mechanical behavior
- January 08, 2010
- Emulation for understanding
Controllable quantum systems that allow us to better understand complex physical processes are now within reach
- October 02, 2009
- Forecasting solar-energy harvests
Photosynthetic processes in an -artificial system can be described accurately by a quantum physical theory
- Savel'ev, S., Yampol'skii, V.A., Rakhmanov, A.L.,and Nori, F.:
"Terahertz Josephson plasma waves in layered superconductors: spectrum, generation, nonlinear, and quantum phenomena."
Rep. Prog. Phys. 73, 026501 (2010) - Buluta, I.,and Nori, F.:
"Quantum Simulators."
Science 326, 108 (2009) - Johansson, J.R., Johansson, G., Wilson, C.M.,and Nori, F.:
"The dynamical Casimir effect in a superconducting coplanar waveguide."
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 147003 (2009) - Ghosh, P.K., Smirnov, A.Y.,and Nori, F.:
"Modelling light-driven proton pumps in artificial photosynthetic reaction centers."
J. Chem. Phys. 131, 035102 (2009) - You, J.Q., Liu, Y.X., and Nori, F.:
"Simultaneous cooling of an artificial atom and its neighboring quantum system."
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 047001 (2008). - Savel'ev, S., Rakhmanov, A.L., Hu, X., Kasumov, A., and Nori, F.:
"Quantum electromechanics: Quantum tunneling near resonance and qubits from buckling nanoscale bars."
Phys. Rev. B 75, 165417 (2007). - Liu, Y.X., Wei, L.F., Tsai, J.S., and Nori, F.:
"Controllable coupling between flux qubits."
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 067003 (2006). - Savel'ev, S., Rakhmanov, A.L., Yampol'skii, V.A., and Nori, F.:
"Analogues of nonlinear optics using terahertz Josephson plasma waves in layered superconductors."
Nature Physics 2, 521-525 (2006) - Cole, D., Bending, S., Savel'ev, S., Grigorenko, A., Tamegai, T., and Nori, F.:
"Ratchet without spatial asymmetry: Controlling the motion of magnetic flux quanta using time-asymmetric drives."
Nature Materials 5, 305-311 (2006). - You, J.Q., and Nori, F.:
"Superconducting circuits and quantum information."
Phys.Today 58 (11), 42 (2005).
Principal Investigator
- Franco NORI
- Team Leader
Postdoctoral Fellow
- Yukihiro OTA
- Special Postdoctoral Researcher
- Cui WEI
- Foreign Postdoctoral Researcher
- Neill Wooldridge LAMBERT
- Contract Researcher
- Johny Robert JOHANSSON
- Visiting Researcher
- Pulak Kumar GHOSH
- Visiting Researcher
- Georgios GIAVARAS
- Visiting Researcher
- Natsuko ISHIDA
- Visiting Researcher
- Xinyou LU
- Visiting Researcher
Student Trainee
- Zeliang XIANG
- International Program Associate
Administrative Assistant
- Ai SATO
- Assistant
Visiting Research Staff
- Sahel Shafiq Salim ASHHAB
- Visiting Scientist