Title
Light, the universe and everything–12 Herculean tasks for quantum cowboys and black diamond skiers
Author
Agarwal, Girish (Texas A&M University)
Allen, Roland E. (Texas A&M University)
Bezděková, Iva (Czech Technical University; VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava)
Boyd, Robert W. (University of Ottawa; University of Rochester Institute of Optics; University of Glasgow)
Chen, Goong (Texas A&M University)
Hanson, R. (TU Delft QID/Hanson Lab; TU Delft QN/Hanson Lab; TU Delft QuTech Advanced Research Centre; Kavli institute of nanoscience Delft) 
Hawthorne, Dean L. (Cornell University)
Hemmer, Philip (Texas A&M University)
Kim, Moochan B. (Texas A&M University)
Kocharovskaya, Olga (Texas A&M University)
Lee, D. (TU Delft Support Urbanism; Texas A&M University; Cornell University)
Lidström, Sebastian K. (University of Strathclyde)
Lidström, Suzy (Texas A&M University; Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
Losert, Harald (University of Ulm)
Maier, Helmut (University of Ulm)
Neuberger, John W. (University of North Texas)
Padgett, Miles J. (University of Glasgow)
Raizen, Mark (The University of Texas at Austin)
Rajendran, Surjeet (University of California)
Rasel, Ernst (Institut fuer Quantenoptik and QUEST-LFS)
Schleich, Wolfgang P. (Texas A&M University; University of Ulm)
Scully, Marlan O. (Texas A&M University)
Shchedrin, Gavriil (Texas A&M University)
Shvets, Gennady (Cornell University)
Sokolov, Alexei (Texas A&M University; Baylor University)
Svidzinsky, Anatoly (Texas A&M University)
Walsworth, Ronald L. (Harvard University)
Weiss, Rainer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Wilczek, Frank (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Arizona State University; Stockholm University)
Willner, Alan E. (University of Southern California)
Yablonovich, Eli (University of California)
Zheludev, Nikolay (University of Southampton; Nanyang Technological University)
Date
2018-06-25
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?.
Subject
Bayesian
Bekenstein–Hawking
Bose–Einstein condensate
coherence
equivalence principle
fractal quantum carpets
free-electron laser
gravitational waves
imaging
interferometry
isotope separation
Lamb shift
laser
LIGO
lithography
magnetometer
maser
Maxwell’s demon
metrology
nanostructure
nitrogen-vacancy centres
non-linear
optics
photon
photonics
Quantum
quantum computing
quantum internet
Rayleigh limit
Riemann hypothesis
sensing
solar energy
super-resolution
superradiance
time crystal
topological
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/09500340.2018.1454525
Embargo date
2019-04-24
ISSN
0950-0340
Source
Journal of Modern Optics, 65 (11), 1261-1308
Part of collection
Institutional Repository
Document type
journal article
Rights
© 2018 Girish Agarwal, Roland E. Allen, Iva Bezděková, Robert W. Boyd, Goong Chen, R. Hanson, Dean L. Hawthorne, Philip Hemmer, Moochan B. Kim, Olga Kocharovskaya, D. 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