Center for Quantum Device Technology

Vladimir Privman, Director

As the dimensions of computer components become smaller, quantum effects will have to be accounted for in transport equations used for device modeling. Coherent quantum dynamics (quantum computing) has promise of speeding up certain information processing tasks. The Center for Quantum device technology was established at Clarkson in the fall of 2001 to address these and related challenges.

The goal of the Center is to devise comprehensive modeling approaches within the new developing semiconductor solid-state physics needed in device design, with the potential to offer new paradigms for fast and low-power computation, new uses of semiconductor materials, secure information transmission — with implications for future utilization of semiconductor devices, optical fibers, very short pulse lasers, single-photon detectors, and spintronics devices.