Q@TN Lab Seminars
Next Appointment
Wednesday, 20 March 2019
Venue: Polo Ferrari 1, via Sommarive 5 (Povo) - room A101
Time: 2.30pm
Serge Haroche (College de France, Paris)
- "Laser breakthroughs in basic science"
Abstract
Prof. Haroche will review breakthroughs in basic science which have been made possible by lasers over the last six decades. They have achieved in the laboratory the highest temperatures existing in the core of the stars and also the lowest ones, at a few billionth of a degree from absolute zero, where matter takes exotic quantum forms. At the microscopic scale, lasers allow us to manipulate single atoms and photons and, at the cosmic scale, to observe gravitational waves generated billions of light years away from Earth. With lasers, we have developed clocks measuring long time intervals with an uncertainty of less than a second over the age of the universe, and produced light pulses lasting a few billionth of a billionth of a second, permitting the observation of the ultrafast phenomena taking place within atoms, molecules or condensed matter systems. These achievements in so many different fields and at such different scales illustrate the crucial and ubiquitous role played in basic science by this extraordinary source of light.
Full programme
Friday, 8 February 2019
Venue: Polo Ferrari 1, via Sommarive 5 (Povo) - room A108
Time: 2.30pm
Quentin Glorieux (LKB Sorbonne Université, Paris, France)
- Quantum simulation with light: from superfluidity to rotating black holes
Friday, 15 February 2019
Venue: Polo Ferrari 1, via Sommarive 5 (Povo) - room A102
Time: 2.30pm
Davide Pastorello and Enrico Blanzieri (Università di Trento)
- Quantum Annealing and hybrid quantum-classical algorithms
Thursday, 28 February 2019
Venue: Polo Ferrari 1, via Sommarive 5 (Povo) - room A108
Time: 3.45pm
Francesco Pederiva, Università di Trento
- Qudit Control-Centric Quantum Computing on the LLNL Quantum Testbed
Thursday, 7 March 2019
Venue: Polo Ferrari 1, via Sommarive 5 (Povo) - room A108
Time: 2.30pm
Philipp Hauke (University of Heidelberg)
- Cold-atom quantum simulation of high-energy physics
Thursday, 14 March 2019
Venue: Polo Ferrari 1, via Sommarive 5 (Povo) - room A108
Time: 3.00pm
Philip Walther (Vienna)
- Quantum photonics for secure data processing and other applications
Wednesday, 20 March 2019
Venue: Polo Ferrari 1, via Sommarive 5 (Povo) - room A101
Time: 2.30pm
Serge Haroche (College de France, Paris)
- "Laser breakthroughs in basic science"
Thursday, 21 March 2019
Venue: Sala Stringa FBK
Time: 9.00am
- Full Day Q@TN Workshop
Scientific Coordinator: Iacopo Carusotto
