JQI Seminar - Jun Ye

Date
Mon, Dec 8, 2025 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location
ATL 2400

Description

Title:  Scaling up quantum systems for clock and fundamental physics
Abstract:  Laser and quantum sciences have fueled revolutionary developments in atomic,
molecular, and fundamental physics. Quantum state engineering and many-body
physics provide coherent quantum systems at increasingly large sizes, revolutionizing
the performance of clocks and promising new discovery opportunities. Quantum
technology has brought many thousands of atoms to minute-long coherence, and
employed entanglement for clock operations. We are also knocking on the door of
nuclear physics, heralded by the recent breakthrough of quantum-state-resolved laser
spectroscopy of thorium-229 nuclear transition. The broad scope of progress in
quantum metrology provides new tools for quantum sensing, and raises the prospect
of using quantum sensors to search for new physics and probe the interface of gravity
and quantum mechanics.