Events
Past Events
Harnessing Parametric Interactions for Superconducting Quantum Systems
- Speaker: Raymond W Simmonds
- Event Type: Seminar
- Date and Time: 01/17/2025 3:30 pm - 01/17/2025 4:30 pm
- Location: Willamette 240 - OMQ Conference Room
Presenting Author: Raymond Simmonds, National Institute of Standards & Technology, Boulder COContributing Authors: Xiaoyue Jin, Taewan Noh, Sudhir Sahu, Trevyn Larson, Katarina Cicak, Zachary Parrott, Kaixuan Ji, Tongyu Zhao, Shlomi Kotler, Eliot Kapi… Read More
Experimental demonstration of scalable and reconfigurable repeaterless quantum networks
- Speaker: Shelbi Jenkins
- Event Type: Seminar
- Date and Time: 11/21/2024 1:00 pm - 11/21/2024 2:00 pm
- Location: Willamette 240 - OMQ Conference Room
The realization of practical quantum networks is highly sought after for the advancement of secure communications, distributed quantum computing, and quantum-enhanced sensing. Previous work on analytical models of repeaterless quantum networks emphasizes… Read More
Next-generation superconducting qubits via defect and phonon engineering
- 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
Zooming in on Brownian Motion with Einstein’s Speed Demon
- 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!
OMQ Fall Research Symposium 2024
- 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:
New Techniques for Fast and High-Fidelity Trapped Ion Interconnects
- 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
Optimized Encoding for Coherent Communication using Photonic Crystal Cavity IQ Modulators in Thin Film Lithium Niobate
- 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
Quantum non-Hermitian dynamics with atoms, ions, and photons*
- 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
On-chip generation and manipulation of quantum states of light in thin-film lithium niobate
- 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
Spectral and time multiplexed continuous variable quantum information
- 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