• Speaker: Alp Sipahigil
• Event Type: Seminar
• Date and Time: 11/04/2024 3:30 pm - 11/04/2024 4:30 pm
• Location: Willamette 240 - OMQ Conference Room

Abstract: Fault-tolerant quantum computation requires further advances in lowering physical qubit error rates in scalable architectures [1]. In this talk, I will present our work on superconducting quantum devices to reduce error rates and resource overhe… Read More

• Speaker: Mark G. Raizen
• Event Type: Seminar
• Date and Time: 10/25/2024 2:00 pm - 10/25/2024 3:00 pm
• Location: Willamette 240 - OMQ Conference Room

In 1905, Albert Einstein formulated his seminal model for Brownian motion, the apparently random movement of particles suspended in a fluid.  While this theory was a major achievement, it predicted infinite particle velocities at short times!

• Speaker: Oregon Center for Optical Molecular and Quantum Science
• Event Type: Symposium
• Date and Time: 09/12/2024 1:00 pm - 09/14/2024 2:00 pm
• Location: SpringHill Suites - Bend, Oregon

The OMQ Fall Research Symposium 2024 is scheduled for September 13th-14th, at the SpringHill Suites in Bend, Oregon. The event will feature talks from OMQ faculty and students as well as our invited guest speakers: 

• Speaker: Jameson O'Reilly
• Event Type: Seminar
• Date and Time: 06/10/2024 3:30 pm - 06/10/2024 4:30 pm
• Location: Willamette 240 - OMQ Conference Room

Trapped atomic ions are a leading candidate platform for quantum simulation and computing but system sizes are limited by motional mode crowding and transport overhead. Multiple reasonably-sized, well-controlled modules can be connected into one universal… Read More

• Speaker: Dashiell L. P. Vitullo
• Event Type: Seminar
• Date and Time: 06/03/2024 3:30 pm - 06/03/2024 4:30 pm
• Location: Willamette 240 - OMQ Conference Room

Thin film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonic integrated circuits offer several improvements over other platforms in terms of material loss, energy efficiency, and operational bandwidth, making them promising enablers for high data rate optical communication.… Read More

• Speaker: Yogesh Joglekar
• Event Type: Seminar
• Date and Time: 05/20/2024 3:30 pm - 05/20/2024 4:30 pm
• Location: Willamette 240 - OMQ Conference Room

Over the past decade, “non-Hermitian” systems have emerged across optics, electrical circuits, fluids, and condensed matter. Representing balanced loss and gain, such classical systems show enhanced sensing and robust topological transport [1]. Due to flu… Read More

• Speaker: Chen Jie (CJ) Xin
• Event Type: Seminar
• Date and Time: 04/29/2024 3:30 pm - 04/29/2024 4:30 pm
• Location: Willamette 240 - OMQ Conference Room

Within the last half-decade, thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) has emerged as an integrated photonics platform with immediate applications in classical telecommunications. Concurrently, there has also been a proliferation of TFLN components developed for a… Read More

• Speaker: Valentina Parigi
• Event Type: Seminar
• Date and Time: 02/27/2024 3:00 pm - 02/27/2024 4:00 pm
• Location: Willamette 240D

Spectral- and time-multiplexing are currently explored to generate large multipartite quantum states of light for quantum technologies. In the continuous variable approach, where the information is encoded in the quadratures of bosonic fields, we exploit… Read More

• Speaker: Boulat Bash
• Event Type: Seminar
• Date and Time: 01/25/2024 2:00 pm - 01/25/2024 3:00 pm
• Location: Willamette 240D

We consider the problem of estimating unknown transmittance θ of a target bathed in thermal background light. As quantum estimation theory yields the fundamental limits, we employ the lossy thermal-noise bosonic channel model, which describes sensor-targe… Read More

• Speaker: Marianna Safronova
• Event Type: Seminar
• Date and Time: 11/09/2023 10:00 am - 11/09/2023 11:00 am
• Location: Willamette 240D

I will tell a story of amazing advances in atomic theory in the past two decades and numerous applications that grew from improved computational abilities, including atomic clock development, fundamental physics, ultracold atoms and quantum simulations, a… Read More