| 报告题目 | Diamond Quantum Devices and Biology |
| 报告人 | Prof. Martin B. Plenio |
| 报告人单位 | Institute of Theoretical Physics |
| 报告时间 | 2013-10-11 |
| 报告地点 | 合肥微尺度物质科学国家实验室九楼会议室 |
| 主办单位 | 合肥微尺度物质科学国家实验室、国际功能材料量子设计中心 |
| 报告介绍 | 报告摘要：
The advancement of sensing technologies makes ever new natural phenomena accessible to experimental examination. The next sensing frontier is set by the detection of individual electron and nuclear spins in ambient conditions that are starting to become accessible with the help of defect centers in diamond. Indeed, the detection of tiny magnetic fields emanating from small numbers of spins in biological environments holds the promise for a variety of application and opens the quantum frontier in biological systems that may help to unravel the quantum mechanisms underlying biologically important processes such as photosynthesis, magneto-reception of birds or olfaction. In this lecture I will explain which strategies may allow sensing to be achieved in the presence of unavoidable environmental noise and follow this with outlining a variety of new approaches to use this tool to develop new designs for quantum simulators and novel bio-nano quantum devices exploiting the self-assembling capabilities of biological systems. I will outline how this technology may lead to new diagnostic tools and MRI imaging agents and finally outline how such systems may shed light on quantum processes that are of relevance for biological function. The lecture will present both the theory underlying these ideas and first experimental results on our way to achieve these goals.
报告人简介：
Martin Plenio is an Alexander von Humboldt Professor and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics at Ulm University as well as part-time Professor at Imperial College London. His research interests lie in the fields of quantum information science, quantum optics, quantum sensing and quantum effects in biology. In these fields he enjoys applying abstract theory to develop concrete experiments and applications. He received his Diploma (1992) and PhD (1994) in Physics from Göttingen University and then moved to Imperial College London as a Fedor Lynen Humboldt Fellow in 1995, became Lecturer in 1998 and eventually a Full Professor of Quantum Physics in 2003. In 2009 he took up his present position following the award of the first Alexander von Humboldt Professorship by the German Ministry for Science and Technology.His research has been awarded with several prizes, including the Maxwell Medal and Prize (2004) of the British Institute of Physics, the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award 2006, the Clifford Paterson Lecture for 2008 of the Royal Society, the Max Born Medal and Prize (2012), jointly awarded by the German Physical Society and the British Institute of Physics and in 2012 the first ERC Synergy grant. |
