QUAntum Materials Engineering using eLEctrOmagNetic fields (QUAMELEON)   2

Background
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is issuing an Advanced Research Concepts (ARC) Opportunity, inviting submissions of Abstracts for innovative exploratory research concepts in the technical domain of Physics. This ARC Opportunity, Quantum Materials Engineering using Electromagnetic Fields (QUAMELEON), is issued under the master ARC Exploration Announcement (EA), DARPA-EA-24-01. ARC Opportunities are designed to allow an individual researcher the opportunity and time to focus on nascent, paradigm-shifting ideas for national security applications.

Work Details
This ARC Opportunity seeks to push the boundaries of optical control of solid-state materials, extending established Floquet engineering techniques to regimes where material properties can meaningfully be changed by electromagnetic fields at the few-photon level or by cavity-enhanced vacuum modes, including new phases of matter and out-of-equilibrium effects. The objective is to study condensed matter systems where the coherent interaction between light at the few-photon level, or the vacuum electromagnetic field, and matter results in new physics that can be exploited for Quantum Information (QI) devices such as quantum enhanced sensors, light sources or detectors, transducers, and quantum emulators.
Experimental, computational, and theoretical efforts will be considered in-scope for the ARC topic.

Period of Performance
The maximum period of performance is 12 months.