Name: Quantum sensing and fundamental physics with levitated mechanical systems
Start: 2023-07-31T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-08-03T18:10:00+02:00
Location: ECT*

Quantum sensing and fundamental physics with levitated mechanical systems

from Monday 31 July 2023 (09:00) to Thursday 3 August 2023 (18:10)

Monday 31 July 2023
09:10 Chair Antonio Pontin
Chair Antonio Pontin
09:10 - 14:30
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
Contributions

09:10 Welcome

09:30 Control of Levitated Nanoparticles - Lukas Novotny

10:10 Two-dimensional quantum strong coupling with a levitated nanosphere - Francesco Marin (Università degli Studi di Firenze)

11:20 Generation of entanglement from mechanical rotations - Marko Toros (University of Glasgow)

12:00 Nanoparticles in Hybrid Potentials - Nadine Meyer (Nanophotonic Systems Laboratory)
14:30 Chair Wei Ji
Chair Wei Ji
14:30 - 19:00
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
Contributions

14:30 Searching for new forces at micron scale with optically levitated microspheres - Giorgio Gratta (Stanford University)

15:10 Levitated optomechanical sensors for nuclear and particle physics - David Moore (Yale)

16:20 Quantum neuromorphic approach for efficient sensing of gravity-induced entanglement - Mauro Paternostro (Queen's University Belfast)
Tuesday 1 August 2023
09:00 Chair DaLi Schaefer
Chair DaLi Schaefer
09:00 - 11:30
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
Contributions

09:00 An ultra-high-Q mechanical oscillator in an ion trap - Tracy Northup (University of Innsbruck)

09:40 Chip-based magnetic levitation of superconducting microparticles - Gerard Higgins (Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), Vienna, Austria)

10:20 Magnetometry with levitated micromagnets - Felix Klaus Ahrens (FBK & CNR-IFN)
11:30 Chair Nadine Meyer
Chair Nadine Meyer
11:30 - 18:00
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
Contributions

11:30 Free-falling geodesic reference test masses and low frequency gravitational wave observation from space - William Joseph Weber (Università di Trento, Dipartimento di Fisica)

12:10 Levitated Optomechanics in Weightlessness - Christian Vogt (ZARM, Uni Bremen)

14:30 Macroscopic Quantum Superpositions via Dynamics in a Wide Nonharmonic Potential - Oriol Romero-Isart (IQOQI / U Innsbruck)

15:10 Exploring macroscopic quantum mechanics with the levitated optomechanics toolbox - Yaakov Fein (University of Vienna)
Wednesday 2 August 2023
09:00 Chair Gerard Higgins
Chair Gerard Higgins
09:00 - 14:30
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
Contributions

09:00 Towards on-chip levitated magnetomechanics with a single spin - John DaLi Schaefer (Harvard University - Lukin Group)

09:40 Spin-mechanics with levitating diamonds - Maxime Perdriat (LPENS (Paris))

10:20 Microelectromechanics - levitation, detection, control and cooling - James Millen (King's College London)

11:30 Scanning SQUID-on-tip microscopy of 2D and chiral magnetism - Martino Poggio (University of Basel, Department of Physics)

12:10 Ellipsoidal paramagnetic particle with gyro effects - Andrejs Cebers (University of Latvia)
14:30 Chair Cristian Vogt
Chair Cristian Vogt
14:30 - 17:50
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
Contributions

14:30 Superconducting levitation of micromagnetic cylinders - Chris Timberlake (University of Southampton)

15:10 Defying Gravity: Measuring attoNewton Gravity with a Magnetic Zeppelin - Tim Fuchs (Leiden University)

16:20 Quantum sensing in microgravity - Alexander Heidt (LEMAQUME - Einstein-Elevator at Leibniz Univerisity of Hannover - Institut für Transport- und Automatisierungstechnik & Institut für Quantenoptik)

17:00 Free-fall experiment of a mesoscopic magnet and its magnetically levitated launcher - Wei Ji (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
20:00 Social Dinner
Social Dinner
20:00 - 21:30
Room: Ristorante Orso Grigio
Thursday 3 August 2023
09:30 Chair Chris Timberlake
Chair Chris Timberlake
09:30 - 14:00
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
Contributions

09:30 Magnetic levitation - cooling, spinning and overcoming eddy damping - Jason Twamley (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University)

10:10 Spin-controlled interference of quantum rotors - Benjamin Stickler (Uni Duisburg-Essen)

11:20 Translational and librational cooling by elliptic coherent scattering - Antonio Pontin (University College London)

12:00 Testing collapse models and gravity with levitated optomechanics - Matteo Carlesso (University of Trieste)
14:00 Chair Yaakov Fein
Chair Yaakov Fein
14:00 - 17:45
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
Contributions

14:00 Aspects of low-energy tests of quantum gravity - Martin Bodo Plenio (Ulm University)

14:40 Realization of a complete Stern-Gerlach interferometer: Towards a test of quantum gravity - Ron Folman (Ben-Gurion University)

15:20 Concluding remarks