Quantum simulation and sensing powered by optics
| Dates: | 28 September 2022 |
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| Times: | 12:00 - 13:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Photon Science Institute |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Current University students |
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| Speaker: | Dr. Jayadev Vijayan |
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Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr. Jayadev Vijayan. Back in the 80s, Richard Feynman famously proposed the use of quantum simulators to study complex quantum systems that are classically intractable. A successful implementation of such a simulator has been with ultracold neutral atoms in optical lattices. Dr Vijayan will describe the platform and two experiments from his PhD at MPQ Munich that demonstrate the quantum advantage of our simulator in addressing long-standing problems in materials science.
In the second part, Dr Vijayan will introduce the rapidly advancing field of levitated optomechanics and will describe how recent experiments at ETH Zurich demonstrating the quantum control of an optically levitated nanoparticle and scalability of the system size open the door towards quantum-enhanced sensing of static fields and inertial motion as well as probing fundamental quantum physics at macroscopic scales.
Speaker
Dr. Jayadev Vijayan
Organisation: ETH Zurich
Biography: Jayadev completed his masters studies in Optics & Photonics as an Erasmus Mundus fellow, spending a semester each in Marseille, Karlsruhe, Barcelona, and Munich. He continued as a PhD student in the group of Immanuel Bloch at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Munich, investigating many-body physics with an ultracold-atom quantum simulator. After finishing his PhD in 2020, he joined the Photonics Lab of Lukas Novotny at ETH to probe quantum effects arising in levitated optomechanical systems. Outside of the lab, you are most likely to find him playing Ultimate Frisbee for the Swiss national team or the Zurich club team.
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