Ultrafast Fourier Transform with a Femtosecond-Laser-Driven Molecule

作者:Hosaka Kouichi*; Shimada Hiroyuki; Chiba Hisashi; Katsuki Hiroyuki; Teranishi Yoshiaki; Ohtsuki Yukiyoshi; Ohmori Kenji
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2010, 104(18): 180501.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.180501

摘要

Wave functions of electrically neutral systems can be used as information carriers to replace real charges in the present Si-based circuit, whose further integration will result in a possible disaster where current leakage is unavoidable with insulators thinned to atomic levels. We have experimentally demonstrated a new logic gate based on the temporal evolution of a wave function. An optically tailored vibrational wave packet in the iodine molecule implements four-and eight-element discrete Fourier transform with arbitrary real and imaginary inputs. The evolution time is 145 fs, which is shorter than the typical clock period of the current fastest Si-based computers by 3 orders of magnitudes.

  • 出版日期2010-5-7