Experimental progress in fabrication of nanoscale devices has opened up many possibilities for engineering systems that operate in the quantum regime and exhibit features such as coherence and entanglement, and there is currently considerable interest in how to exploit these quantum effects for novel applications such as quantum information processing, to design devices with new functionalities, and to improve existing devices, making them smaller, faster, more energy efficient, etc. In addition to quantum computing, communication and cryptography applications other uses such as more exact sensors, clocks, medical devices and drugs, etc. are also of interest. In particular applications that currently employ electronic devices may benefit from photonic and plasmonic technologies utilising quantum effects. This raises the general problem of exploiting the properties of quantum systems as part of nano technology and developing suitable computational tools to support this.
This project is aimed at developing tools for fast simulation and visualisation of quantum systems to improve our understanding of their operation and facilitate the development of novel devices. It is related to some of the work on point-based modelling and concentrates on the simulation of Schroedinger and Maxwell equations, visualisation of quantum wave functions, and detection of features of interest in the simulation results. A long term goal is to combine the simulation and visualisation tools with algorithms for optimising the device geometries and dynamic control of their operation.
Software related to this is developed at the Qyber development site.
Visualisation and Simulation of Quantum Systems,http://www.langbein.org/research/quantum/simulation by Frank C Langbein [10/June/2009, 14:27].
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