Wake Forest University
the Nano and Quantum Technologies Laboratory
Research Themes
Themes
There are four research themes at NQTL. Researchers come from across Wake Forest University and from around the world working within teams formed around these themes. The environment at the Lab allows for cross-fertilization and hybridization of theme concepts yielding exciting new approaches to these areas of research.
Quantum information, quantum materials, and the development of quantum machines. NanoteQ's efforts are focused on quantum radar, quantum processors, time crystals, theoretical studies of quantum phase, and quantum coding in noisy environments, correlated photonics, and more. Our community includes WFU researchers as well as team members in Germany.
Human-Machine Fusion
Bionics and Cybernetics combine the worlds of medicine, biomedical engineering, physics, computer science, and chemistry. The aim is to leverage breakthrough tech in engineering new approaches to the machine-biology interface. Artificial organs, embeddable health sensing, restorative system implants, and synaptic control of bioelectronics are only a few frontier goals. that are imagined today.
Synthetic Intelligence
Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Deep learning… As we move closer to an era of machine thought, we don't know how this technology will impact human societies, human creativity, or human skills and ability. But these technologies can have real advantages for human wellbeing. NanoteQ focuses on the transformative power of these tools as agents of feedback control, noise and error reduction, and management of large data structures, etc. As we struggle with issues of ethics and social modification, technological limits and restrictive controls, as well as cognitive impacts our ability and pathway to create even more powerful AI must be addressed.
Green World Technologies
Power technologies, power utilization, and power security. How do we create a sustainable habitat, a fair and equitable access system to the world's resources, and a safe means of growth for our planet and our communities? The NanoteQ focus in this area is based on emerging technological innovation. Power in the marketplace always tends toward its densest forms and the growth of planetary power utilization far exceeds our ability to conserve our way to sustainability. But there are ways to generate power, distribute power, and use power that will allow us to move forward as a society without burning up our environment.