• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

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

• 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

• Speaker: Ofer Kfir
• Event Type: Seminar
• Date and Time: 08/05/2022 10:00 am - 08/05/2022 12:00 pm
• Location: Klamath 107

Title:Entanglements between light and free electrons: concepts and the path forward. Abstract:Photonic-based quantum information is perhaps the only mature quantum technology today, primarily used for quantum cryptographic communication. Free electro… Read More

• Speaker: Zach Walbrun
• Event Type: Seminar
• Date and Time: 05/16/2022 3:00 pm - 05/16/2022 4:00 pm
• Location: Willamette 240D and Zoom

Understanding charge transfer (CT) in electron donor-acceptor systems is critical for the development of more efficient organic photovoltaics (OPVs). Donor-acceptor systems are what compose the active layer in OPVs, and when light is absorbed in the activ… Read More

• Speaker: Sofiane Merkouche
• Event Type: Seminar
• Date and Time: 04/04/2022 3:00 pm - 04/04/2022 4:00 pm
• Location: Willamette 240D and Zoom

"Time and frequency (TF) encoding in quantum states of light is a promising paradigm for quantum information networks in the near future. This is largely due to the high information capacity provided by TF modes of light, and their compatibility with both… Read More