Title
Professor

Department
Dept of Chemistry


Faculty URL
http://chem.berkeley.edu/faculty/whaley/

Research Group
http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/kbwgrp/

Email
whaley@berkeley.edu

Phone
(510) 643-6820

Fax
(510) 643-0003


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Research Expertise and Interest
quantum information and quantum computation, control and simulation of complex quantum systems, quantum effects in biological systems, quantum physics, quantum mechanics

Research Description
Professor Whaley's research lies at the interface?of quantum physics with information and computation, with chemistry, and?with biology. Her work focuses?on quantum information and quantum computation, control and simulation of complex quantum systems, and quantum effects in biological systems. Quantum information processing employs superposition, entanglement, and probabilistic measurement to encode and manipulate information in very different ways from the classical information processing underlying current electronic technology. Theoretical research in?Professor Whaley's group in this area is focused in quantum algorithms, quantum control, quantum information and quantum measurement, analysis and simulation of open quantum systems, macroscopic quantum states and quantum metrology. Specific topics of current interest include quantum feedback control, algorithms for near term quantum computation, and analysis of macroscopic quantum superpositions in interacting many-body systems. Such superposition states, dramatically illustrated by Schrodinger's famous cat paradox, offer unprecedented opportunities for precision measurements. Professor Whaley's research in quantum biology seeks to characterize and understand the role of quantum dynamical effects in biological systems, with a perspective that combines physical intuition and detailed quantum simulation with insights from various branches of quantum science – quantum physics, molecular quantum mechanics and quantum information.