Hi Everyone,
This Friday (April 1st), the Postdoc candidate Jonathan Olson
from Louisiana State University (Physics) will give a job interview to our
group. The talk will be in the Division Room from 2pm to 3.30pm (the
schedule is in attachment). Follows the abstract of the talk:
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Title: The Ultimate Limits of Measurement --- Metrology from Single Photons
Abstract: Metrology deals with the task of measuring unknown quantities and
determining how certain our measurements can be about the “true” value of a
variable. Optical interferometry has been an incredibly useful resource
for making precision measurements about the properties of many systems,
recently culminating in the breakthrough discovery of gravity waves by the
LIGO collaboration. In this talk, I will describe the evolution of quantum
metrology, and give some examples of the way interferometers can exploit
the quantum properties of light to make higher precision measurements than
could ever be done in a classical world. Finally, I will describe my work
in developing a new architecture -- inspired by Boson Sampling -- which
hopes to make practical quantum sensors a reality.
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Kind regards,
Salvatore