Physics Department Colloquia |
Events During the Week of February 10th through February 17th, 2019
Monday, February 11th, 2019
- No events scheduled
Tuesday, February 12th, 2019
- No events scheduled
Wednesday, February 13th, 2019
- No events scheduled
Thursday, February 14th, 2019
- No events scheduled
Friday, February 15th, 2019
- Atomic clocks as quantum sensors
- Time: 3:30 pm
- Place: 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Speaker: Andrei Derevianko, University of Nevada
- Abstract: Atomic clocks are arguably the most accurate scientific instruments ever built. Modern clocks are astonishing timepieces guaranteed to keep time within a second over the age of the Universe. I will review the remarkable progress in atomic timekeeping and discuss a variety of applications of atomic clocks as quantum sensors. These applications range from measuring electric fields and geoids to dark matter and exotic physics searches. Massive entanglement of atomic ensembles offers an intriguing potential for improving the sensitivity even further. I will present our proposal on entangling millions of atoms with Rydberg gates.
- Host: Mark Saffman