JILA
National Institute of Standards and Technology & University of Colorado
Thursday, April 3rd, 2025, 18:00
Stephen Leacock Building, Leacock Auditorium (room 132)
Lighting a path for clock and fundamental physics
Laser and quantum science have fueled revolutionary developments in atomic
and fundamental physics. Scaling up quantum systems to increasingly large
sizes promises to revolutionize the performance of atomic clocks and bring
opportunities for new discovery. Quantum technology has brought tens of
thousands of atoms to minute-long coherence times, enabling the achievement of
best measurement precision and accuracy. The combination of ultrafast optics
and precision metrology has brought us new tools for nuclear physics, leading
to the recent breakthrough of quantum-state-resolved laser spectroscopy of
thorium-229 nuclear transition. The permeation of quantum metrology to all
corners of physics sparks new ideas for testing fundamental laws of nature
and searching for new physics.
Friday, April 4th, 2025, 14:30
Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Keys Auditorium (room 112)
Molecules under new light
New tools of light for increasingly refined observation and control of
molecules are providing new opportunities to study complex structure and
emergent quantum properties, to set new bounds for fundamental symmetry,
to probe real-time reaction kinetics, and to apply molecular sensing for
medical diagnosis. Meanwhile, quantum gases of molecules constitutes a new
experimental platform for precise quantum state engineering and control of
molecular interactions and collective dynamics, enabling exploration of novel
chemical reactions and quantum magnetism.
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