Events
Past Events
Probing Nucleic Acids using Steady-State and Ultrafast Fluorescence Spectroscopy
- 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
Many-body quantum decoherence and reservoir engineering
- 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
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
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
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
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