The Quantum Light-Matter Cooperative’s (QLMC) mission is to understand, design, and ultimately control light-driven physical processes to help solve interconnected socio-technological challenges.
Photon sciences and technologies establish the building blocks for myriad scientific and engineering frontiers in life and energy sciences. Because of this overarching functionality, our areas of application include life sciences, biochemistry, quantum optics and information sciences, environmental and chemical engineering, and energy sciences.
We seek to help solve major life and energy challenges by examining the cooperative interaction between photons and matter. Our research is founded on the following four intersecting areas that seed advancements in
Ultrafast & Nonlinear Optics, Quantum Photonics
Quantum Electrodynamics and Molecular Dynamics
Accelerators & X-ray Free Electron Lasers
Humanities-Informed STEM (HI-STEM)
An Introduction to the Cooperative
Partner Institutions
The Q-LMC is located across various areas in California: based at the UCLA Electrical & Computer Engineering Department and co-located at the UCLA Physics & Astronomy Department, and Stanford University’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and the Linac Coherent Light Source. the brightest X-ray source operated by Stanford on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy. Our cooperative is also affiliated with the California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI) and the Center for Quantum Science & Engineering (CQSE).
Samueli School of Engineering,
University of California Los Angeles
LCLS and LCLS-II at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory,
Stanford University
Sponsors
