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Title:

Quantum Information Transport, Algebra Representations, Orthogonal Polynomials and (Super)Integrable Models

Agreement Number:

RGPIN

Agreement Value:

$280,000.00

Agreement Date:

May 10, 2017 -

Organization:

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Location:

Quebec, CA

Reference Number:

GC-2017-Q1-03091

Agreement Type:

Grant

Report Type:

Grants and Contributions

Additional Information:

Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year. (2017-2018 to 2022-2023)

Recipient's Legal Name:

Vinet, Luc (Université de Montréal)

Program:

Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Program Purpose:

Theoretical physics attempts to understand nature by offering mathematical models of various phenomena. The validation of those descriptions and the determination of the predictions they entail require a detailed understanding of the dynamics of those systems. This is what is meant by « solving a model » and the better if this can be done exactly. It is therefore important to develop the mathematics, the tools, that will make possible the exact solution of a growing number of relevant dynamical systems and will help in the design of rich and sophisticate physical models.

The research of Luc Vinet will do precisely that. He will design devices relevant for quantum computers. He will work with experimentalists to validate his theoretical predictions. He will develop new mathematics that will advance the exact solutions of various problems and he will find new models whose dynamics can be fully understood.

For quantum information to operate, qubits i.e. quantum states need to be transported efficiently between locations. A resource known as quantum entanglement, ebits, must also be available. Luc Vinet will explore how one can use physical systems known as quantum spin chains to achieve those tasks.

The dynamics of spin chains can be reproduced in photonic lattices formed by arrays of coupled waveguides. Luc Vinet will work with experimentalists to implement the transport of qubits and the generation of ebits in arrays engineered according to the specifications of the spin chains he will have identified for that purpose.

A high level of symmetry is typically a feature of systems admitting an exact solution. An expert of those questions, Luc Vinet will advance the mathematics associated with that key word which are referred to as algebra and representation theory. He will find new structures apt to describe situations of invariance and will also identify new functions often called special that encode symmetries through their properties.

Luc Vinet also has strategies to construct new models with a lot of symmetries called superintegrable that are the hallmark of exactly solvable models. He will bring new mathematical results to bear on their study and will explore their phenomenology and applications