Details of Grant

EPSRC Reference:

GR/R04096/01

Title:

Complex Dynamics of Simple Quantum Systems

Principal Investigator:

Other Investigators:

Harkness, Dr G	Summers, Professor HP	Barnett, Professor S
Badnell, Professor N	Firth, Professor WJ	Duxbury, Professor G

Researcher Co-Investigators:

Project Partners:

Silicon Graphics International Corp SGI

Department:

Physics

Organisation:

University of Strathclyde

Scheme:

JREI

Starts:

01 December 2001

Ends:

30 November 2004

Value (£):

147,689

EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:

Light-Matter Interactions	Optical Phenomena
Plasmas - Laser & Fusion	Quantum Optics & Information

EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:

Electronics

Creative Industries

Related Grants:

Panel History:

Summary on Grant Application Form

We seek funding for a 12 parallel processor state-of-the-art SGI computer for the investigation of quantum effects in nonlinear optics, atomic and plasma physics, and molecular spectroscopy. The common denominator of these simulations of the numerical methods used such as matrix diagonalisation, Monte-Carlo simulations and those for the solution of partial differential equations. These require a large amount of CPU time but can effectively be helped by parallelisation. The specific research projects are in the areas of quantum and nonlinear optics, on one side, and atomic, molecular and plasma physics, on the other. They all demand the description and numerical simulation of quantum mechanical processes. They are: 1) Use of quantum entanglement for reducing fluctuations in the recording of images and in the manipulation of optical information; 2) Quantum mechanical computation of electron-atom collision processes; 3) Quantum stochastic resonance in optical parametric oscillators; 4) Formation and manipulation of Bose-Einstein condensates; 5) Quantum mechanical computation of molecular structure and molecular collision processes; 6) Atomic/molecular population and plasma modelling for thermonuclear fusion and astrophysics.

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