Michael R. Wasielewski is the Clare Hamilton Hall Professor of Chemistry, Director of the Center for Molecular Quantum Transduction, and Executive Director of the Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern University. Dr. Wasielewski will deliver a seminar entitled, "Using Light to Generate Molecular Spin Qubits for Quantum Information Science." Hosted by Claudia Avalos.
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Abstract: We will describe recent work from our laboratory that focuses on using photo-driven processes to generate entangled electron spins in molecular materials targeting applications in quantum computing, communications and sensing. We will describe how ultrafast photogeneration of radical ion pairs within covalent organic electron donor-acceptor systems results in two entangled spins having sufficiently long coherence times to perform CNOT gate operations and to teleport a prepared quantum state on a third spin to one of the spins comprising the entangled pair. We will also describe recent work using photogenerated entangled spin pairs to serve as molecular electric field sensor. Finally, we will show how singlet exciton fission in single crystals of a molecular chromophore results in the formation of two spin-coherent triplet excitons that evolve into a long-lived spin quintet state potentially useful for quantum logic operations. These results illustrate the versatility of molecular materials in quantum information science.
Bio: Michael R. Wasielewski is the Clare Hamilton Hall Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University. He is also Director of the Center for Molecular Quantum Transduction, a US-DOE Energy Frontier Research Center, the Initiative for Quantum Information Research and Engineering, and the Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago and was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University. His research has resulted in over 800 publications and focuses on light-driven processes in molecules and materials, artificial photosynthesis, molecular electronics, quantum information science, ultrafast optical spectroscopy, and time-resolved electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy.
He is member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is the recipient of numerous awards for his work.
