Advances in Quantum Science
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 569
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Interests: single atom devices; silicon quantum devices, quantum computing; machine learning; quantum artificial intelligence
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Dear Colleagues,
Quantum sciences are deeply rooted in suitably-tailored physical substrates. The reason can be either the direct encoding of information in quantum states as happens in quantum computers and communications, or to address the coupling of quantum states with macroscopic equipment as happens for quantum sensors and quantum metrology. Then, the appropriate choice and the engineering of a suitable material can make the difference in driving quantum science to quantum technologies. Materials for quantum science range from quantum computing (semiconductor host of quantum dots, superconductors, defects in semiconductors), to quantum communications (single-photon sources and detectors, respectively), to quantum metrology (absolute photon counters), and quantum sensors (solid state spins, superconductors and SQUIDs, optomechanics).
Conversely, development of materials can in turn take advantage of quantum science, such as material design by quantum computers and quantum ellipsometry just to mention a few examples. Aside from traditional investigation methods, novel design methods involve deep and machine learning, quantum computers, and HPC. This Special Issue looks at covering both the development of materials to boost quantum sciences, and quantum sciences to empower the search and refinement of materials.
The field is rapidly advancing into new areas of discovery. It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome.
Prof. Dr. Enrico Prati
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- quantum materials
- deep learning designed materials
- materials for quantum technologies
- quantum computer designed materials
- single-photon sources
- single-photon emitters
- superconductive qubits
- semiconductor qubits
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