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SUMMARY:MechE Colloquium: Quantum coherent nanomechanical resonators see t
 he light
DTSTART:20171003T121500
DTEND:20171003T131500
DTSTAMP:20260509T234523Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Dalziel Wilson\, Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measu
 rements\, EPFL School of Engineering (STI)\, Institute of Electrical Engin
 eering (IEL) and EPFL School of Basic Sciences (SB)\, Institute of Physics
  (IPHYS) and IBM Research\, Zurich\nAbstract:\nNanomechanical resonators a
 re exquisite force sensors and have recently (and surprisingly) emerged as
  a potential quantum technology. I’ll discuss new phononic engineering t
 echniques that have made it possible to realize room-temperature nanomecha
 nical resonators with quality factors exceeding 100 million\, and potentia
 lly orders of magnitude higher. We’ve been using these devices to measur
 e and manipulate quantum fluctuations of laser light\, a capability that w
 ill enable applications ranging from fundamental tests of gravity to ultra
 -low-noise radio wave detection. The devices are also intriguing as macros
 copic quantum systems\, as they undergo 100s of oscillations in their ther
 mal decoherence time.\n\nBio:\nDr. Wilson is a postdoctoral fellow working
  jointly at EPFL and IBM Research\, Zurich. He cut his teeth in the quantu
 m optics group of Jeff Kimble at Caltech\, was seduced into the (then youn
 g) field of optomechanics\, and eventually fell love with nanomechanics. A
 t EPFL he works in the Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurement (Pr
 of. Tobias Kippenberg)\, where he and his colleagues develop techniques to
  probe the quantum fluctuations of nanomechanical resonators with light\, 
 and vice-versa.
LOCATION:MED 0 1418 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==MED%200%201418
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