Welcome to Quantum Initiative at UConn
Quantum Initiative at UConn is a grassroots interdisciplinary effort to develop collaborations and joint funding in quantum science. We seek to develop a community and develop a quantum center at UConn through collaboration, joint seminars, workshops, and outreach events.
News
- Physics Colloquium 02/16: Josiah Sinclair (MIT, MIT-Harvard CUA)A new platform for quantum science: programmable arrays of single atoms inside an optical cavity – 02/16 – 3:30pm – Gant West, GW-002 – Abstract: Recently, programmable arrays of single atoms have emerged as a leading platform for quantum computing and simulation with experiments demonstrating control over hundreds of atoms [1]. Interfacing an atom array […]Posted on February 12, 2024
- High-Temperature Superconductors – With a Twist?UCONN TODAY — Superconductors, which are materials that allow perfect, lossless flow of electrons through them, have intrigued physicists for decades. But most superconductors only exhibit this quantum-mechanical peculiarity at temperatures so low – a few degrees above absolute zero –as to render them impractical. Moreover, exotic forms of superconductivity, some of which have yet […]Posted on January 18, 2024
- CSE Colloquium 11/07: Kenneth Goodenough (UMass Amherst)On noise in swap ASAP repeater chains: exact analytics, distributions and tight approximations – 11/07 – 12:00pm – HBL Instruction 1102 – Abstract: Losses are one of the main bottlenecks for the distribution of entanglement in quantum networks, which can be overcome by the implementation of quantum repeaters. The most basic form of a quantum repeater […]Posted on November 3, 2023
Upcoming Physics Events
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Oct
4
Graduate Student Seminar 12:15pm
Graduate Student Seminar
Friday, October 4th, 2024
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Gant South Building
Prof. Peter Schweitzer, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut
Internal Structure of Hadrons
Hadrons are composed particles and exhibit a rich internal structure which is probed experimentally in high energy experiments and described in the theory of Quantum Chromodynamics. Recent advances in the theory of hadron structure with focus on gravitational form factors are discussed.
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Oct
7
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Seminar 3:30pm
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Seminar
Monday, October 7th, 2024
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Gant West Building
Prof. Wenchao Ge, University of Rhode Island
How to Make a Faster Trapped-Ion Quantum Computer?
Trapped ions offer a pristine platform for quantum computation, but enhancing the interactions without compromising the qubits remains a crucial challenge. In this talk, I will present a strategy to enhance the interaction strengths in trapped-ion systems via parametric amplification of the ions’ motion, thereby suppressing the relative importance of decoherence. We illustrate the power of this approach by showing how it can improve the speed and fidelity of two-qubit gates in multi-ion systems and how it can enhance collective spin states useful for quantum metrology. Our proposal has been further demonstrated in the experiment, confirming the enhancement. Our results open a new avenue of phonon modulation in trapped ions and are directly relevant to numerous other physical platforms in which spin interactions are mediated by bosons.
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Oct
14
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Seminar 2:00pm
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Seminar
Monday, October 14th, 2024
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Gant West Building
Prof. Bryce Gadway, Penn State
Title and Abstract: TBA
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Oct
14
Edward Pollack Distinguished Lecture presented by Prof. Philip H. Bucksbaum, Stanford University and SLAC National Laboratory 4:00pm
Edward Pollack Distinguished Lecture presented by Prof. Philip H. Bucksbaum, Stanford University and SLAC National Laboratory
Monday, October 14th, 2024
04:00 PM
Gant West Building
Last year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Anne l’Huillier, and Ferenc Krausz, for discoveries that launched attosecond science and technology at the turn of the century, before there were any x-ray free electron lasers. Subsequent advances at SLAC as well as other labs around the world helped to establish the breadth and importance of research at the attosecond frontier, making the case for Nobel recognition of the foundational work. This illustrates how technological advances and fundamental discoveries feed on each other: advances in ultrafast lasers are quickly followed by fundamental discoveries in physics, which then motivate further advances in laser technology. This colloquium is an eyewitness account of that story from its beginnings four decades ago to the present. I’ll describe the science behind the Prize, and I’ll explain how x-ray lasers have become a central focus for the next chapter of the saga.
Reception preceding at 3pm in the Gant Light Court
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Oct
18
UConn Physics Colloquium 3:30pm
UConn Physics Colloquium
Friday, October 18th, 2024
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Gant West Building
Prof. Jun Ye, University of Colorado and JILA
Title and abstract TBA
Contact Us
Alexander V. Balatsky
Email: alexander.balatsky@uconn.edu
Patrick J. Wong
Email: patrick.wong@uconn.edu