Quantum Engineering of Levitated Systems
Quantum Engineering of Levitated Systems

Organizers:

M. Juan (Uni. Sherbrooke), N. Meyer (ETHZ), J. Twamley (OIST)


Monday, August 17

09:30-10:20 Registration and coffee
10:25-10:30 Foreword
10:30-11:15 Spinning, synchronization and cooling with Meissner-levitated magnets
Andrea Vinante
11:15-11:45 Levitodynamics of micromagnets over type-ii superconductors: sensing, dissipation, and quantum coupling
Trisha Madhavan
11:45-12:15 Morning break
12:15-13:00 High-precision motional readout of levitated superconductors
Michael Trupke
13:00-16:30 Lunch break
16:30-17:15 TBA
Hendrik Ulbricht
17:15-17:45 Coffee break
17:45-18:30 Magnetic levitation: stiffer potentials, miniaturisation and readout.
Bas Hensen
18:30-19:00 Entering the quantum regime with diamagnetically levitated graphite
Ruvi Lecamwasam
19:30-22:00 Reception

Tuesday, August 18

10:30-11:15 Levitated sensors for gravitational wave and dark matter detection
Nancy Aggarwal
11:15-11:45 Morning break
11:45-12:15 Driving a milligram scale levitated oscillator by spin-force from an NV ensemble
Anshuman Nayak
12:15-13:00 Levitation of mg-Scale Dielectrics for Testing Semiclassical Gravity
Mahdi Hosseini
13:00-16:15 Lunch break
16:15-17:00 Towards quantum ground state with levitated particle inside hollow-core photonic crystal fibers
Nicolas Joly
17:00-17:30 Trap-frequency quenches for quantum squeezing and acceleration sensing with a levitated nanoparticle
Mitsuyoshi Kamba
17:30-18:00 Coffee break
18:00-18:30 Optically trapped nanoparticles for dark matter and neutrinos
David Moore

Wednesday, August 19

10:30-11:15 Acoustic phonons for quantum computing
Andrew Cleland
11:15-11:45 Morning break
11:45-12:15 Temporal engineering of light-induced dipolar interactions
Livia Egyed
12:15-13:00 TBA
Benjamin Stickler
13:00-19:30 Lunch break - Free afternoon
20:00-22:30 Conference dinner - Restaurant La Llardana

Thursday, August 20

10:30-11:15 TBA
Ivette Fuentes
11:15-11:45 Morning break
11:45-12:15 Levitated macroscopic rotors with 10 hours of free spin at room temperature
Xianfeng Chen
12:15-13:00 Towards Milligram-Scale Optical Levitation via Lightsail Photonic Crystal Membranes
Richard Norte
13:00-16:15 Lunch break
16:15-17:00 Probing gravity and quantum noise with torsional nanomechanics
Dalziel Wilson
17:00-18:00 Coffee and posters
18:00-18:30 Macroscopic Spin GHZ State in Levitated Ferromagnets
Xueqi Ni
18:30-19:00 Mechanical Motion assisted by Spin-dependent Heating
Louis Chambard

Friday, August 21

10:30-11:15 Quantum measurements of particles and of waves
Vivishek Sudhir
11:15-11:45 Morning break
11:45-12:30 Optically levitated nanoparticles: A versatile experimental platform to study nonequilibrium and non-Hermitian dynamics
Pavel Zemanek
12:30-13:00 Quantum non-Gaussian optomechanics
Andrey Rakhubovsky
13:00-16:30 Lunch break
16:30-17:15 Engineering fluctuation phenomena in nanoscale quantum systems
Kanu Sinha
17:15-17:45 Coffee break
17:45-18:15 Optimal certification of large gaussian spatial coherence
Lukas Neumeier
18:15-19:00 Quantum control of levitated nanorotors: 2D librational cooling and beyond
Stephan Troyer
19:00-19:15 Closing remarks