• 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

• Speaker: Shuo Sun
• Event Type: Seminar
• Date and Time: 10/30/2023 4:00 pm - 10/30/2023 5:00 pm
• Location: Willamette 240D

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”. Quantum dots are one type of optically active artificial atoms. Since their discovery, they have found a wide range of applications in bioimaging and medicine… Read More

• Speaker: Oregon Center for Optical Molecular & Quantum Science
• Event Type: Symposium
• Date and Time: 09/11/2023 12:00 am - 09/12/2023 11:45 pm
• Location: Civic Winery & Wines

The OMQ Fall Research Symposium 2023 is scheduled for September 11th-12th, and will be held again this year at the Civic Winery and Wines in Eugene, Oregon. The event will feature talks from OMQ faculty and students as well as invited guest speakers.… Read More

• Speaker: Raghavendra (Raghu) Srinivas
• Event Type: Seminar
• Date and Time: 06/02/2023 3:00 pm - 06/02/2023 4:00 pm
• Location: Willamette 240D

Optical atomic clocks are our most precise tools to measure time and frequency. Precision frequency comparisons between atoms in separate locations can be used to probe the space-time variation of fundamental constants, the properties of dark matter, and… Read More

• Speaker: Ben McDowell
• Event Type: Seminar
• Date and Time: 05/22/2023 3:30 pm - 05/22/2023 4:30 pm
• Location: Willamette 240D and zoom

As materials approach the atomically-thin limit, the effect of surfaces on electronic properties becomes increasingly important. Surfaces can exhibit unusual atomic and electronic structures, which can be drastically different than those observed in bulk… Read More

• Speaker: Julia Widom
• Event Type: Seminar
• Date and Time: 05/08/2023 3:00 pm - 05/08/2023 4:00 pm
• Location: Willamette 240D

RNA performs a diverse set of biological functions, many of which require it to fold into specific structures. Many techniques have been developed to study RNA folding, a number of which are based on fluorescence detection. I will first present work… Read More

• Speaker: Lincoln Carr
• Event Type: Seminar
• Date and Time: 04/14/2023 3:00 pm - 04/14/2023 4:30 pm
• Location: Willamette 240D

The most common spec given for a quantum computer besides the number of qubits is the T1 and T2 decoherence times, both of which are based on a single qubit interacting with the environment.  The quantum volume, one measure for the capability of quan… Read More

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

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

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