Ultrafast Fourier transform with a femtosecond-laser-driven molecule.
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.
Hosaka
Kouichi
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Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan.
Shimada
Hiroyuki
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Chiba
Hisashi
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Katsuki
Hiroyuki
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Teranishi
Yoshiaki
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Ohtsuki
Yukiyoshi
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Ohmori
Kenji
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