Harvard Quantum Initiative Special Seminar Tuesday, January 15 3:00 PM Jefferson 356 William Cairncross, JILA, NIST and University of Colorado, Boulder Precision measurement and quantum state control with trapped molecular ions Precision measurements using molecules are today amongst the most sensitive probes for fundamental physics beyond the Standard Model. I will present an ongoing search for beyond Standard Model time-reversal symmetry violation using trapped molecular ions at JILA, where we have implemented basic quantum state control to attain high sensitivity to the electron’s electric dipole moment. I will discuss our recently-completed first result and our progress towards a second-generation measurement, culminating in multi-second quantum coherence and internal state detection of over one thousand molecules at the standard quantum limit. -- Clare Ploucha Administrative Program Manager Max Planck/Harvard Research Center for Quantum Optics Department of Physics 17 Oxford Street, Jefferson 357 Cambridge, MA 02138 P: 617-495-3388