Host: Ana Maria Rey
Abstract: Photons bouncing back and forth many times between mirrors provide a way for atoms to interact at essentially infinite range. These interactions open powerful new paths for quantum simulation and quantum sensing, allowing us to leverage the certainty provided by quantum mechanics to make very precise measurements of the world around us, or allowing us to emulate one quantum system with another to provide insights and understanding. In this talk, I will provide a sampling of my group’s work including how we use the quantum measurement process and interactions to create some of the most highly-entangled states realized in any system, realize the first entanglement-enhanced matterwave interferometer, and simulate the predicted dynamical phases of BCS superconductors.
The Physics Frontiers Centers (PFC) program supports university-based centers and institutes where the collective efforts of a larger group of individuals can enable transformational advances in the most promising research areas. The program is designed to foster major breakthroughs at the intellectual frontiers of physics by providing needed resources such as combinations of talents, skills, disciplines, and/or specialized infrastructure, not usually available to individual investigators or small groups, in an environment in which the collective efforts of the larger group can be shown to be seminal to promoting significant progress in the science and the education of students. PFCs also include creative, substantive activities aimed at enhancing education, broadening participation of traditionally underrepresented groups, and outreach to the scientific community and general public.