John Sidles
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Current Information
Position: Professor
Institution: University of Washington
Keywords: MRFM, Quantum Systems Engineering, Quantum Microscopy
Homepage: http://www.mrfm.org
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Email: sidles@u.washington.edu
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MRFM
Collaborators:
Dan Rugar, Al Hero, John Marohn, Chris Hammel, Michael Roukes, Raffi Budakian, Lee Harrell, John Markert
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Institution: University of Iowa
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Institution: University of Washington
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Graduate students:
Joe Malcomb
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Undergraduate students:
Christian Kikuchi, Chris Mounce
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Quantum microscopy is an emerging technology for achieving comprehensive atomic-resolution imaging of complex molecular structures.
Each cell in the human body contains about a hundred times as many atoms as there are stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. Quantum microscopy has the potential ability to observe all of these atoms, individually, in the same sensu stricto that a telescope resolves the Milky Way into individual stars.
Quantum system engineering is system design under quantum constraints. Specifically QSE is concerned with technologies that achieve:
* Noise levels at or near the quantum and thermodynamic limits, * Switching speeds at or the relativistic and causal limits, * Physical size at or near the atomic limit, and * Signal processing efficiency at or near the information theory limit.
MRFM is an acronym for Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy. MRFM seeks to combine three scientific ideas:
* the idea of magnetic resonance imaging, * the idea of scanning probe microscopy, * the idea of continuous quantum observation.
By combining the above three ideas, we can hope to create a technology for achieving:
* the direct observation of individual molecules, * in situ, in their native forms and native environments, * with three-dimensional atomic-scale resolution, * by a nondestructive observation process.
Such a technology would function as a true quantum molecular microscope, allowing researchers to observe atomic-scale structure and environments in living organisms, nanoscale electronic devices, and advanced materials as readily as present-day optical microscopes observe the structure and behavior of living cells.
