CCI Headquarter Location Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA 607 Charles E. Young Drive East Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569 Contact Information Phone Number: +1(310)825-3769 E-mail: ana@chem.ucla.edu

Higher Education and Professional Development One of the missions of our Center is the QIS community building, starting from education of undergraduate and graduate students at the intersection disciplines where QIS resides, to organizing symposia and workshops to bring together professionals from the respective disciples for the QIS advancement. CIQC/AMAQIS 2024 Winter School Quantum Information…

Vibronic Engineering for Quantum Functional GroupsHaowen Zhou, Taras Khvorost, Anastassia N. Alexandrova*, Justin R. Caram* April 7, 2025 | https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.accounts.4c00773 Photoswitching molecules functionalized with optical cycling centers provide a novel platform for studying chemical transformations in ultracold moleculesPaweł Wójcik, Taras Khvorost, Guanming Lao, Guozhu Zhu, Antonio Macias Jr, Justin Caram, Wesley Campbell, Miguel García-Garibay, Eric…

Optical Cycling Center (OCC) for Charged Molecules Optical cycling in molecules is advancing, with laser cooling now possible for diverse diatomic and polyatomic molecules. Extending this technique to charged molecules presents both challenges and opportunities. Our research defines optimal properties for optical cycling in charged molecules, identifies candidate ions, and addresses specific challenges. Through collaboration,…

The Team This project requires computation for predictions of new molecular species hosting quantum functionalities (PI, Anastassia Alexandrova, UCLA), new theoretical methods to enable some of the predictions (Anna Krylov, USC), synthesis to make the predicted molecules (Miguel Garcia-Garibay, UCLA), spectroscopy to test them (Justin Caram, UCLA), and QIS experts to tailor to desired applications…

Center Vision Using the rules of chemical bonding, and tools of synthetic chemistry, spectroscopy, and theory, the Center will bring the hitherto unrealized molecular complexity to qubit discovery, and enable substantially more flexible, scalable, and practicable quantum systems than those explored today. By leveraging chemical complexity, these QIS architectures can be tailored to meet a…

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