Quantum Frontier Lab (Yamanouchi Lab)

AboutAbout the lab

Seeing and controlling molecules with light

The Yamanouchi Lab studies the interaction between light and molecules, and the molecular motion induced by light, through both experiments and theory.
It is particularly interested in how chemical bonds break and form in laser light so intense that it rivals the electric fields inside molecules (intense laser fields), and in how molecules interact with extremely short light pulses lasting attoseconds to femtoseconds.
The lab aims to create methods for controlling molecules and reactions with highly designed light pulses.
Recently, it has also published results from calculations using quantum computers.

ResearchResearch themes

The lab studies the interaction between light and molecules, and light-induced molecular dynamics, through both experiments and theory. It is interested in the breaking and formation of chemical bonds in intense laser fields and in the interaction of molecules with light pulses lasting attoseconds to femtoseconds, and aims to build methods for controlling molecules and the environments in which reactions occur using designed light pulses.

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Molecules in Intense Light and Quantum Computing↗

The lab investigates ultrafast processes that occur in molecules in intense laser fields, developing both experimental and theoretical methods. In addition to precision spectroscopy and microfabrication of solid surfaces, it is carrying out calculations of atoms and molecules on actual quantum computer hardware.

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