Levitating Solids to Test Fundamental Aspects of Physics (Part I)

Block lecture by Dr. Julen Simòn Pedernales, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Ulm University, Germany Abstract: Quantum mechanics has been remarkably successful in describing the microscopic world, yet its applicability to larger scales, beyond a few thousand atoms, remains largely unexplored experimentally. Recent advancements in the quantum control of solids suspended in a vacuum, each containing […]

Levitating Solids to Test Fundamental Aspects of Physics (Part II)

Block lecture by Dr. Julen Simòn Pedernales, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Ulm University, Germany Abstract: Quantum mechanics has been remarkably successful in describing the microscopic world, yet its applicability to larger scales, beyond a few thousand atoms, remains largely unexplored experimentally. Recent advancements in the quantum control of solids suspended in a vacuum, each containing […]

An Introduction to Causal Fermion Systems with a focus on information theoretic aspects

Dr. Claudio Paganini from the faculty of mathematics of the university of Regensburg: "I will give an introduction to Causal Fermion Systems (CFS), a leading candidate for a unified theory of physics. CFS provides a rigorous mathematical framework that merges the language of Quantum Theory and General Relativity in a novel way. This is achieved by encoding […]

Colloquium: Magic-band Floquet-Bloch Atom Interferometry

For DQ-mat members and interested scientists: Colloquium by Prof. Dr. David Weld, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Abstract: "I will discuss a novel platform for compact, continuously-trapped atom interferometry using lithium Bose condensates in the Floquet-Bloch bands of an amplitude-modulated optical lattice. In analogy to the magic wavelengths employed by optical lattice clocks, we […]