Events

Past Events

Large-scale atom interferometry: applying quantum technology to the detection of dark matter and gravitational waves

  • Speaker: Chris Foot
  • Event Type: Seminar
  • Date and Time: 03/20/2023 3:00 pm - 03/20/2023 4:00 pm
  • Location: Willamette 240D

 

Quantum Processing Opportunities with Multilevel Atoms

  • Speaker: Wes Campbell
  • Event Type: Seminar
  • Date and Time: 03/16/2023 9:00 am - 03/16/2023 10:00 am
  • Location: Willamette 240D
Special Day and Time

While it can be useful in some cases to abstract away all but 2 levels of the atoms used for quantum computing, it should not be forgotten that these qubit hosts often have many levels capable of participating in processing tasks.  These include long… Read More

Introduction to Quantinuum

  • Speaker: Mark Jackson
  • Event Type: Seminar
  • Date and Time: 03/13/2023 10:30 am - 03/13/2023 12:00 pm
  • Location: Willamette 240D
Special Day and Time

Oregon Ions welcomes Dr Mark Jackson

Adjustable engineering of single-photon sources in hexagonal boron nitride

  • Speaker: Rachael Klaiss
  • Event Type: Seminar
  • Date and Time: 02/20/2023 3:00 pm - 02/20/2023 4:00 pm
  • Location: Willamette 240D

Emerging quantum information technologies require robust and tunable single-photon sources in precise locations.

Precision metrology with atoms, electrons, and photons

  • Speaker: Shaun Burd
  • Event Type: Seminar
  • Date and Time: 02/06/2023 3:00 pm - 02/06/2023 4:00 pm
  • Location: Willamette 240D

High performance optical frequency standards require engineering and controlling the relative motion between an atomic reference and the laser local oscillator.  I will describe a generic Doppler-free excitation protocol based on 3-photon excitation… Read More

Modeling of complex macromolecular liquids across multiple time and distance scales: theoretical approaches and computer simulations

  • Speaker: Marina Guenza
  • Event Type: Seminar
  • Date and Time: 01/30/2023 3:00 pm - 01/30/2023 4:00 pm
  • Location: Willamette 240D

Complex macromolecular systems are ubiquitous in materials science and biology. These systems exhibit fascinating structural and dynamical properties encompassing a broad range of temporal and spatial… Read More

Rescheduled: The 2022 Nobel Prize for Experiments on the Bell Inequalities and Quantum Entanglement

  • Speaker: Michael Raymer
  • Event Type: Seminar
  • Date and Time: 11/10/2022 4:00 pm - 11/10/2022 5:00 pm
  • Location: Physics Colloquium
Special Day and Time

Abstract:  The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to A. Aspect, J. Clauser, and A. Zeilinger for experiments showing that quantum entanglement across macroscopic distances can create measurement correlations that defy ‘classical-physics’ de… Read More

Decoherence vs Complexity in Phase Space

  • Speaker: Tzula Propp
  • Event Type: Seminar
  • Date and Time: 11/07/2022 3:00 pm - 11/07/2022 4:00 pm
  • Location: Willamette 240D

We study the competition between decoherence and quantum complexity in a toy model, and discuss its implications for computation in the era of Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices. Our toy model is a single Bosonic mode evolving under the non-l… Read More

Multi-Output Quantum Pulse Gate: a High-Dimensional Temporal-Mode Decoder

  • Speaker: Laura Serino
  • Event Type: Seminar
  • Date and Time: 11/02/2022 3:00 pm - 11/02/2022 4:00 pm
  • Location: Willamette 240D
Special Day and Time

Future quantum technologies will require the implementation of complex quantum communication (QC) networks. Temporal modes (TMs) provide an appealing high-dimensional encoding alphabet based on the time-frequency degree of freedom of photons, leading to i… Read More

OMQ Fall Research Symposium 2022

  • Event Type: Symposium
  • Date and Time: 09/12/2022 9:00 am - 09/13/2022 2:00 pm
  • Location: Civic Winery

The OMQ Fall Research Symposium 2022 is scheduled for September 12th-13th, and will be held this year at the Civic Winery and Wines in Eugene, Oregon. The event will feature talks from OMQ faculty and students as well as guest speakers Wei Xiong (UCS… Read More