Phil Richerme, Asso. Prof. of Physics, was announced as one of this year’s group of Experimental Physics Investigators by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Only 19 researchers from across the country and many subfields of study have received this recognition. Prof. Richerme will receive a five-year grant of $1.25M to apply his ion-trap quantum simulators to chemical dynamical problems of increasing complexity. This grant will also facilitate, for the first time, the development of custom-designed ion traps for specific chemical problems.
This work builds on a long-standing interdisciplinary collaboration that Prof. Richerme has had with Srini Iyengar and Jeremy Smith in Chemistry and Amr Sabry in Computer Science in which they have found ways to map the dynamics of molecular systems onto quantum chains of interacting ionic spins.
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