个人简介

Professor, born 1956; B.A. Oxford University (1978); Nuffield Scholar (1974-78); Kennedy Fellow, Harvard University (1978-79); M. Sc. (1982), Ph.D. University of Chicago (1984); Golda Meir Fellow, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (1984-85), Post Doctoral Fellow, Tel Aviv University (1985-86); Bergmann Award (1986); A. P. Sloan Foundation Fellow (1991-93); Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist (1996-97); Fellow, American Physical Society (2002); Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science Professor, University of California, Berkeley (2002-2003); Maria Goeppert-Mayer Lecturer, UC San Diego (2005); Vice Chair, Chair Elect, Chair, Division of Chemical Physics, APS (2009-2011); Scientific Advisory Committee, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo (2010-2013); Senior Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2012-2013); Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar (2013-2014); Quantum Frontiers Distinguished Lecturer, University of Waterloo (2014); Advisory Board, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara (2014-2017); Albrecht Lecturer, Cornell University (2015). Editorial Boards: Chemical Physics (1996-), Journal of Physical Chemistry (1998-2003), Quantum Information Processing (2005-), Journal of Chemical Physics (2010-2012); European Physical Journal (EPJ) Quantum Technology (2013-), Advances in Physics X (2014-).

研究领域

Quantum Physics, Molecular Quantum Mechanics, and Quantum Information Professor Whaley's research is at the interfaces of chemistry with physics and with biology. Her work is broadly focused 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 of Professor Whaley's group in this area is focused in 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, quantum reservoir engineering, topological 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 recent 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.

Quantum Physics, Molecular Quantum Mechanics, and Quantum Information Professor Whaley’s research is at the interfaces of chemistry with physics and with biology. Her work is broadly focused 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 of Professor Whaley’s group in this area is focused in 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, quantum reservoir engineering, topological 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 recent 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.

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T. Volkoff, Y. Kwon and K. B. Whaley, “Numerical simulation of 4He superfluid weak link formation in nanoaperture arrays”, Phys. Rev. B 94, 144501 (2016). S. Hacohen-Gourgy, L. S. Martin, E. Flurin, V. V. Ramasesh, K. B. Whaley and I. Siddiqi, “Dynamics of simultaneously measured non-commuting observables”, Nature doi:10.1038/nature19762 (October 2016). F. Motzoi, E. Halperin, X. Wang, K. B. Whaley and S. Schirmer, “Back-action driven, robust, steady-state long-distance entanglement”, quant-ph/1512.03415, Phys. Rev. A 94, 032313 (2016). N. M. Tubman, J. Lee, T. Y. Takeshita, M. Head-Gordon and K. B. Whaley, “A deterministic alternative to the full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo method”, J. Chem. Phys. 145, 044112 (2016). J. J. J. Roden, D. I. G. Bennett, and K. Birgitta Whaley, "Long-range energy transport in Photosystem II, quant-ph/1501.06674, J. Chem. Phys. 144, 245101 (2016). J. J. J. Roden and K. Birgitta Whaley, "A probability current analysis of energy transport in open quantum systems”, Phys. Rev. E 93, 012128 (2016). L. Martin, F. Motzoi, H. Li, M. Sarovar, K. B. Whaley,” Deterministic generation of remote entanglement with active quantum feedback”, Phys. Rev. A 92, 062321 (2015). M. H. Goerz, K. B. Whaley and C. P. Koch, “Hybrid Optimization Schemes for Quantum Control”, EPJ Quantum Technology 2, 21 (2015). F. Motzoi, K. B. Whaley and M. Sarovar, “Continuous joint measurement and entanglement of qubits in remote cavities”, Phys. Rev. A 92, 032308 (2015). L. Greenman, C. P. Koch and K. B. Whaley, “Laser pulses for coherent xuv Raman excitation”, Phys. Rev. A 92, 013407 (2015). M. H. Goerz, G. Gualdi, D. M. Reich, C. P. Koch, F. Motzoi, K. B. Whaley, J. Vala, M. M. Müller, S. Montangero, T. Calarco, “Optimizing for an arbitrary perfect entangler. II. Application”, Phys. Rev. A 91, 062307 (2015). P. Watts, J. Vala, M. M. Müller, T. Calarco, K. B. Whaley, D. M. Reich, M. H. Goerz, C. P. Koch, “Optimizing for an arbitrary perfect entangler: I. Functionals”, Phys. Rev. A 91, 062306 (2015). A. A. Kocherzhenko, D. Lee, M. Forsuelo and K. B. Whaley, “Coherent and incoherent contributions to charge separation in multichromophore systems”, J. Phys. Chem. C 119, 7590 (2015). A. Imamoglu and K. B. Whaley, “Photoactivated biological processes as quantum measurements”, Phys. Rev. E 91, 022714 (2015). A. A. Kocherzhenko, J. Dawlaty, B. P. Abolins, F. Herrera, D. B. Abraham and K. B. Whaley, “Collective effects in linear spectroscopy of dipole coupled arrays”, Phys. Rev. A 90, 062502 (2014). J. Zhang, L. Greenman, X. Deng and K. B. Whaley, “Robust control pulses design for electron shuttling in solid state devices”, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology 22, 2354, (2014). K. B. Whaley, A. Kocherzhenko and A. Nitzan, “Coherent and Diffusive Timescales for Exciton Dissociation in Bulk Heterojunction Photovoltaic Cells”, J. Phys. Chem. C 118, 27235 (2014). S. Jang, S. Hoyer, G. R. Fleming and K. B. Whaley, “Generalized master equation with non-Markovian multichromophoric Forster resonance energy transfer for modular exciton densities”, quant-ph/1311.2091, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 188102 (2014). M. H. Goerz, E. J. Halperin, J. M. Aytac, C. P. Koch and K. B. Whaley, “Robustness of high-fidelity Rydberg gates with single-site addressability”, Phys. Rev. A 90, 032329 T.J. Volkoff, K. B. Whaley, “Macroscopicity of quantum superpositions on a one-parameter unitary path in Hilbert space”, Phys. Rev. A 90, 062122 (2014). A. R. Schmidt, E. Henry, C. C. Lo, Y.-T. Wang, H. Li, L. Greenman, O. Namaan, T. Schenkel, K. B. Whaley, J. Bokor, E. Yablonovitch, and I. Siddiqi, “A prototype silicon double quantum dot with dispersive microwave readout”, J. Appl. Phys. 116, 044503 (2014). F. Herrera, Y. Cao, S. Kais and K. B. Whaley, “Infrared-dressed entanglement of cold open-shell polar molecules for universal matchgate quantum computing”, New J. Phys. 16, 075001 (2014). C. Daniel Freeman, C. M. Herdman, Dylan M. Gorman, and K. B. Whaley, "Relaxation dynamics of the toric code in contact with a thermal reservoir: Finite-size scaling in a low-temperature regime", Phys. Rev. B 90, 134302 (2014). N. Roch, M. E. Schwartz, F. Motzoi, C. Macklin, R. Vijay, A. W. Eddins, A. N. Korotkov, K. B. Whaley, M. Sarovar and I. Siddiqi, “Tracking entanglement generation between two spatially-separated superconducting qubits”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 170501 (2014). S. Hoyer, F. Caruso, S. Montangero, M. Sarovar, T. Calarco, M. B. Plenio and K. B. Whaley, “Realistic and verifiable coherent control of excitonic states in a light harvesting complex”, New J. Phys. 16, 045007 (2014).