[MOS] Tomorrow 11/6 - Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar with David Grimes (Harvard University)

[Christine Brooks]

There will be a Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar held tomorrow, November 6 at 12pm in 56-154

**Please note location**

David Grimes
Postdoc, Harvard University (Ni Group)

“Quantum computing and fundamental chemistry with ultracold molecules”


Over the past 15 years, significant strides have been made in the ability to create and control ultracold (<1 μK) diatomic molecules. The level of control has reached a point where these molecules can be used as a tool in further experiments. As one example, ultracold dipolar molecules can be used as a platform for quantum computing by making use of the dipolar exchange interaction. I will present an experimentally feasible, easily scalable method for performing high fidelity quantum computation using NaCs molecules. As a second example, ultracold molecules offer insight into the effects of quantum mechanics on chemical reactions and the chemical physics that describe and predict the distribution of quantum states in the products. I will discuss the barrier-less, exothermic reaction 2 KRb -> K2 + Rb2, and describe our efforts to investigate this system with both quantum state-selective creation of ultracold reagents and quantum state-resolved detection of products.

Refreshments will be served immediately following the seminar


Christine Brooks
Administrative Assistant
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Chemistry
77 Massachusetts Ave, 6-333
Cambridge, MA 02139
p: 617.253.7239
e: cbrooks at mit.edu<mailto:cbrooks at mit.edu>

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