Quantum sensing with atoms, light and pendulums
Date
Monday, May 15, 2023 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker
Onur Hosten (ISTA)
Location
Raiffeisen Lecture Hall
Series
Colloquium
Tags
4th year colloquium
Host
Johannes Fink
Contact
In this talk I will give a high level overview of the research activities that are undertaken in my group, which are enabled by advances in the level of precision in controlling atomic and optical systems.
I will share our journey of generating quantum entangled states of laser cooled atomic gases, and of using them to develop atom interferometric force sensors to test fundamental physical laws. I will then share our ambitions for testing whether gravity obeys the laws of quantum mechanics utilizing milligram scale pendulums and cold atoms that all ought to behave quantum mechanically. I will also point at how some of our scientifically motivated technique developments might be turning into industry products.