Light, the universe and everything–12 Herculean tasks for quantum cowboys and black diamond skiers

Girish Agarwal; Roland E. Allen; Iva Bezděková; Robert W. Boyd; Goong Chen; Ronald Hanson; Dean L. Hawthorne; Philip Hemmer; Moochan B. Kim; Olga Kocharovskaya; David M. Lee; Sebastian K. Lidström; Suzy Lidström; Harald Losert; Helmut Maier; John W. Neuberger; Miles J. Padgett; Mark Raizen; Surjeet Rajendran; Ernst Rasel; Wolfgang P. Schleich; Marlan O. Scully; Gavriil Shchedrin; Gennady Shvets; Alexei Sokolov; Anatoly Svidzinsky; Ronald L. Walsworth; Rainer Weiss; Frank Wilczek; Alan E. Willner; Eli Yablonovich; Nikolay Zheludev

doi:10.1080/09500340.2018.1454525

Light, the universe and everything–12 Herculean tasks for quantum cowboys and black diamond skiers

Girish Agarwal, Roland E. Allen, Iva Bezděková, Robert W. Boyd, Goong Chen, Ronald Hanson, Dean L. Hawthorne, Philip Hemmer, Moochan B. Kim, Olga Kocharovskaya, David M. Lee, Sebastian K. Lidström, Suzy Lidström, Harald Losert, Helmut Maier, John W. Neuberger, Miles J. Padgett, Mark Raizen, Surjeet Rajendran, Ernst RaselWolfgang P. Schleich, Marlan O. Scully, Gavriil Shchedrin, Gennady Shvets, Alexei Sokolov, Anatoly Svidzinsky, Ronald L. Walsworth, Rainer Weiss, Frank Wilczek, Alan E. Willner, Eli Yablonovich, Nikolay Zheludev

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Abstract

The Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics (PQE) has been a seminal force in quantum optics and related areas since 1971. It is rather mind-boggling to recognize how the concepts presented at these conferences have transformed scientific understanding and human society. In January 2017, the participants of PQE were asked to consider the equally important prospects for the future, and to formulate a set of questions representing some of the greatest aspirations in this broad field. The result is this multi-authored paper, in which many of the world’s leading experts address the following fundamental questions: (1) What is the future of gravitational wave astronomy? (2) Are there new quantum phases of matter away from equilibrium that can be found and exploited–such as the time crystal? (3) Quantum theory in uncharted territory: What can we learn? (4) What are the ultimate limits for laser photon energies? (5) What are the ultimate limits to temporal, spatial and optical resolution? (6) What novel roles will atoms play in technology? (7) What applications lie ahead for nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond? (8) What is the future of quantum coherence, squeezing and entanglement for enhanced super-resolution and sensing? (9) How can we solve (some of) humanity’s biggest problems through new quantum technologies? (10) What new understanding of materials and biological molecules will result from their dynamical characterization with free-electron lasers? (11) What new technologies and fundamental discoveries might quantum optics achieve by the end of this century? (12) What novel topological structures can be created and employed in quantum optics?.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1261-1308
Number of pages	48
Journal	Journal of Modern Optics
Volume	65
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/09500340.2018.1454525
State	Published - Jun 25 2018

Keywords

Bayesian
Bekenstein–Hawking
Bose–Einstein condensate
LIGO
Lamb shift
Maxwell’s demon
Quantum
Rayleigh limit
Riemann hypothesis
coherence
equivalence principle
fractal quantum carpets
free-electron laser
gravitational waves
imaging
interferometry
isotope separation
laser
lithography
magnetometer
maser
metrology
nanostructure
nitrogen-vacancy centres
non-linear
optics
photon
photonics
quantum computing
quantum internet
sensing
solar energy
super-resolution
superradiance
time crystal
topological

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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Agarwal, G., Allen, R. E., Bezděková, I., Boyd, R. W., Chen, G., Hanson, R., Hawthorne, D. L., Hemmer, P., Kim, M. B., Kocharovskaya, O., Lee, D. M., Lidström, S. K., Lidström, S., Losert, H., Maier, H., Neuberger, J. W., Padgett, M. J., Raizen, M., Rajendran, S., ... Zheludev, N. (2018). Light, the universe and everything–12 Herculean tasks for quantum cowboys and black diamond skiers. Journal of Modern Optics, 65(11), 1261-1308. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500340.2018.1454525

Agarwal, G, Allen, RE, Bezděková, I, Boyd, RW, Chen, G, Hanson, R, Hawthorne, DL, Hemmer, P, Kim, MB, Kocharovskaya, O, Lee, DM, Lidström, SK, Lidström, S, Losert, H, Maier, H, Neuberger, JW, Padgett, MJ, Raizen, M, Rajendran, S, Rasel, E, Schleich, WP, Scully, MO, Shchedrin, G, Shvets, G, Sokolov, A, Svidzinsky, A, Walsworth, RL, Weiss, R, Wilczek, F, Willner, AE, Yablonovich, E & Zheludev, N 2018, 'Light, the universe and everything–12 Herculean tasks for quantum cowboys and black diamond skiers', Journal of Modern Optics, vol. 65, no. 11, pp. 1261-1308. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500340.2018.1454525

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