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As of Fall 2024, Dr. Gillen is no longer actively supervising research projects herself, but has collaborators and colleagues at Cal Poly in this and related fields with exciting research endeavors. Please visit the Cal Poly Physics Research page to find out more!
Our research field is neutral atom quantum computing. Specifically, within this field, we work on identifying and testing light patterns that could be useful for trapping atoms for quantum computing and other quantum information applications. We have an experimental research lab in the Physics Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, using lasers to cool and trap atoms at temperatures ~100 microkelvin from absolute zero to get them ready to be held by pure light patterns for quantum computing. We also have computational projects to calculate the properties of various light patterns for use as atom traps, and theoretical projects learning how to implement quantum algorithms on a quantum computer that can perform single and two-qubit gates. All of our projects are centered around undergraduate students. If you'd like to learn more, please contact Dr. Kat Gillen (click here for contact information).
Experimental work: Cold atom apparatus for trapping atoms with novel light patterns
Computational work: Identify and and calculate the properties of novel light patterns that are useful for trapping and addressing qubits for neutral atom quantum computing and other quantum information applications
Pinhole diffraction patterns (2D)
Theoretical work: Explore how to go from a high-level description of a quantum algorithm to implementation using single and two-qubit gates.
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