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Wednesday, March 21, 2018 10:30 am - 10:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Coupling surface acoustic waves to artificial atoms to study the phononic Lamb shift.

Thomas Aref, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

My research focuses on probing superconducting quantum bits or qubits with acoustic radiation in the form of surface acoustic waves (SAWs). This allows the investigation of sound interacting with artificial atoms on a quantum mechanical level, i.e. quantum acoustics with traveling phonons. We can then reproduce findings from quantum optics with sound taking over the role of light, highlighting the similarities between phonons and photons.

Thursday, March 22, 2018 1:30 pm - 1:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Quantum acoustics with superconducting qubits

Yiwen Chu - Yale University

The ability to engineer and manipulate different types of quantum mechanical objects allows us to take advantage of their unique properties and create useful hybrid technologies. Thus far, complex quantum states and exquisite quantum control have been demonstrated in systems ranging from trapped ions to superconducting resonators. Recently, there have been many efforts to extend these demonstrations to the motion of complex, macroscopic objects.

Friday, March 23, 2018 11:45 am - 11:45 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

RAC1 Journal Club/Seminar Series

Sangil Kwon: Phase in Superfluids and Spontaneously Broken Gauge Symmetry

It is often said that superfluids (including superconductors) can be described by a macroscopic quantum wavefunction and their phase transition can be understood based on the concept of spontaneously broken gauge symmetry. This statement is not, however, trivial at all. In this seminar, I will discuss some conceptual problems that stem from applying the concept of spontaneously broken gauge symmetry to superfluids.

Monday, March 26, 2018 4:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

All no-signalling theories are local-realistic

Gilles Brassard, Université de Montréal

It is generally believed that experimental violations of Bell's inequalities (especially the recent so-called loophole-free experiments) provide evidence that quantum theory cannot be both local and realistic. We demonstrate to the contrary that all reversible-dynamics no-signalling operational theories (including unitary quantum theory) can be given a local-realistic interpretation.

Tuesday, March 27, 2018 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Simulating Cosmological Models in Optical Lattices

Gerard Valentí Rojas - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain

The laws of quantum mechanics have helped scientists to unravel the behaviour of nature at its most fundamental scales. However, quantum phenomena are often difficult to understand and simulations have historically provided a useful framework for their study. Nevertheless, when dealing with large quantum systems or real-time dynamics, the computational cost of numerical simulations can become unfeasible.

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 10:30 am - 10:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

‘Free-space’ Chiral Quantum Optics and a ‘Few-Atom’ Quantum Antenna

Peter Zoller - University of Innsbruck

We start with an overview of chiral quantum optics as quantum light-atom interfaces with broken left- right symmetry and associated quantum optical phenomena and applications. While chiral quantum optics is traditionally discussed in context of nano-photonics and nano fibers , we propose here a novel ‘free-space’ chiral quantum optics realized as atoms in free space coupled to a ‘few-atom’ quantum antenna. In particular, we discuss free space photonic quantum links between atoms (qubits) equipped with sending and receiving quantum antennas.

Friday, April 6, 2018 11:45 am - 11:45 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

RAC1 Journal Club/Seminar Series

Xiaodong MaXiaodong Ma: Topological insulator and the quantum anomalous Hall effect

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is defined as a quantized Hall effect in a system without an external magnetic field. Its physical origin relies on the intrinsic topological inverted band structure and ferromagnetism.

Monday, April 9, 2018 2:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Excitations in Topological Superfluid 3He

Yoonseok Lee, University of Florida

After the discovery of topological insulators, the concept of topology permeated the various fields of condensed matter physics. Symmetry of a quantum system plays an intriguing role in close association with topology, expanding the range of topological quantum systems to superconductors/superfluids. Superfliuid 3He, which has been a prime example of symmetry breaking phase transition, is also recognized as a quantum system with various topological nature.