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Monday, February 8, 2016 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Seminar: Dorian Gangloff

Nanocontacts atom-by-atom with a friction emulator

Dorian Gangloff, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Friction is the basic, ubiquitous mechanical interaction between two surfaces that results in resistance to motion and energy dissipation. To test long-standing atomistic models of friction processes at the nanoscale, we implemented a synthetic nanofriction interface using laser cooled ions subject to the periodic potential of an optical standing wave.

Monday, February 8, 2016 4:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Seminar: Aye Lu Win

Catalysis of Stark-tuned Interactions between Ultracold Rydberg Atoms

Aye Lu Win, Old Dominion University

The strong long-range interaction between ultracold Rydberg atoms gives rise to a number of interesting phenomena that have been studied in recent years including resonant energy transfer collisions, many-body quantum simulations, quantum information processing, and ultracold plasmas. The dipole-dipole interaction between a pair of Rydberg atoms can result in a state-changing interaction if the energy defect for the process is small.

Friday, February 12, 2016 11:00 am - 11:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Seminar: Boris Braverman

Progress toward a spin squeezed optical atomic clock beyond the standard quantum limit

Boris Braverman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

State of the art optical lattice atomic clocks have reached a relative
inaccuracy level of order $10^{-18}$, making them the most stable time
references in existence.

Tuesday, February 16, 2016 2:30 pm - 2:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Seminar: William Paul

Toward single atom qubits on a surface: Pump-probe spectroscopy and electrically-driven spin resonance

William Paul, IBM Research

Single Fe atoms placed on a thin MgO film have exceptional magnetic properties: Their spin relaxation lifetime can extend to many milliseconds, and their quantum state can be coherently manipulated by RF electric fields. In this talk, we will discuss a scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) investigation of the dynamics of spin-relaxation and the electric-field-driven spin resonance of individual Fe atoms on a MgO/Ag(001) surface.

Monday, February 29, 2016 11:00 am - 11:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Seminar: K. Rajibul Islam

Measuring Entanglement Entropy in a Many-body System

K. Rajibul Islam, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms

Entanglement, perhaps the most counter-intuitive feature of quantum mechanics, describes non-local correlations between quantum objects. In recent years, entanglement has emerged as a central concept in our understanding of quantum many-body physics. It allows us to characterize phases of quantum matter that cannot be distinguished by broken symmetries, such as topological states.

Wednesday, March 9, 2016 10:30 am - 10:30 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Seminar: Carl Miller

Quantum Randomness Expansion - New Results

Carl Miller, University of Michigan

Is it possible to create a source of provable random numbers? An affirmative answer to this question would be highly useful in information security, where random numbers are needed to provide the keys for encryption algorithms. Bell inequality violation experiments offer hope for this problem, since the outputs of a Bell violation must be non-classical and therefore not fully predictable to an adversary. The challenge is to prove something stronger: that the outputs can be processed (extracted) to obtain uniformly random data. This leads to some complex and beautiful mathematics.

Thursday, March 10, 2016 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Seminar: Igor Mekhov

Quantum optics of strongly correlated many-body systems

Igor Mekhov, University of Oxford

We show that quantum backaction of weak measurement constitutes a novel source of competitions in many-body systems, thus leading to new phenomena. We consider a system of ultracold atoms in optical lattices trapped inside a high-Q cavity, which requires a fully quantum description of both light and matter waves. The QND measurements lead to the generation of genuinely multipartite entangled modes of the matter fields, which have analogies in quantum optics (e.g. two-mode squeezing), but are non-Gaussian.

Monday, March 21, 2016 2:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Seminar: Yasunobu Nakamura

Hybrid quantum systems using collective degrees of freedom in solids

Yasunobu Nakamura, The University of Tokyo

In the course of the development of superconducting qubits, we learned that we can fully control quantum states of selected collective degrees of freedom in superconducting circuits. Such collective modes, rigidly extending in a macroscopic scale, strongly couple to electromagnetic fields via their large dipole moments. Moreover, Josephson junctions bring large nonlinearity into the system without adding dissipation.

Thursday, March 24, 2016 1:30 pm - 1:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Seminar: Archana Kamal

Quantum information processing with superconducting quantum circuits

Archana Kamal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The promise of quantum computers to solve problems intractable with their best classical counterparts has catapulted quantum information processing into a major research effort in recent years. In addition, rapidly evolving capabilities in manipulating quantum systems have provided us with new insights into the dynamics of nature at small scales. One of the primary challenges in developing any practical quantum information platform, however, is to harness quantum effects on macroscopic scales.

Monday, March 28, 2016 11:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Seminar: Crystal Senko

Bottom-up approaches for quantum many-body physics with cold trapped atoms

Crystal Senko, Harvard University

A major outstanding challenge in quantum science is the development and refinement of techniques to control interactions among quantum particles, which will be a key ingredient in quantum information processing and laboratory studies of quantum many-body physics. This talk will describe two atom-based platforms for studying artificial spin-spin interactions.