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, July 31, 2023 (9:00 AM) to Thursday, August 3, 2023 (6:10 PM)

Monday, July 31, 2023
9:10 AM Session 1: Chair Antonio Pontin
Chair Antonio Pontin
9:10 AM - 2:30 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
Contributions

9:10 AM Welcome

9:30 AM Control of Levitated Nanoparticles - Lukas Novotny

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

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

12:00 PM Nanoparticles in Hybrid Potentials - Nadine Meyer (Nanophotonic Systems Laboratory)
2:30 PM Session 2: Chair Wei Ji
Chair Wei Ji
2:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
Contributions

2:30 PM Searching for new forces at micron scale with optically levitated microspheres - Giorgio Gratta (Stanford University)

3:10 PM Levitated optomechanical sensors for nuclear and particle physics - David Moore (Yale)

4:20 PM Quantum neuromorphic approach for efficient sensing of gravity-induced entanglement - Mauro Paternostro (Queen's University Belfast)
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
9:00 AM Session 3: Chair DaLi Schaefer
Chair DaLi Schaefer
9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
Contributions

9:00 AM An ultra-high-Q mechanical oscillator in an ion trap - Tracy Northup (University of Innsbruck)

9:40 AM Chip-based magnetic levitation of superconducting microparticles - Gerard Higgins (Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), Vienna, Austria)

10:20 AM Magnetometry with levitated micromagnets - Felix Klaus Ahrens (FBK & CNR-IFN)
11:30 AM Session 4: Chair Nadine Meyer
Chair Nadine Meyer
11:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
Contributions

11:30 AM 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 PM Levitated Optomechanics in Weightlessness - Christian Vogt (ZARM, Uni Bremen)

2:30 PM Macroscopic Quantum Superpositions via Dynamics in a Wide Nonharmonic Potential - Oriol Romero-Isart (IQOQI / U Innsbruck)

3:10 PM Exploring macroscopic quantum mechanics with the levitated optomechanics toolbox - Yaakov Fein (University of Vienna)
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
9:00 AM Session 5: Chair Gerard Higgins
Chair Gerard Higgins
9:00 AM - 2:30 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
Contributions

9:00 AM Towards on-chip levitated magnetomechanics with a single spin - John DaLi Schaefer (Harvard University - Lukin Group)

9:40 AM Spin-mechanics with levitating diamonds - Maxime Perdriat (LPENS (Paris))

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

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

12:10 PM Ellipsoidal paramagnetic particle with gyro effects - Andrejs Cebers (University of Latvia)
2:30 PM Session 6: Chair Cristian Vogt
Chair Cristian Vogt
2:30 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
Contributions

2:30 PM Superconducting levitation of micromagnetic cylinders - Chris Timberlake (University of Southampton)

3:10 PM Defying Gravity: Measuring attoNewton Gravity with a Magnetic Zeppelin - Tim Fuchs (Leiden University)

4:20 PM Quantum sensing in microgravity - Alexander Heidt (LEMAQUME - Einstein-Elevator at Leibniz Univerisity of Hannover - Institut für Transport- und Automatisierungstechnik & Institut für Quantenoptik)

5:00 PM Free-fall experiment of a mesoscopic magnet and its magnetically levitated launcher - Wei Ji (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
8:00 PM Social Dinner
Social Dinner
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Room: Ristorante Orso Grigio
Thursday, August 3, 2023
9:30 AM Session 7: Chair Chris Timberlake
Chair Chris Timberlake
9:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
Contributions

9:30 AM Magnetic levitation - cooling, spinning and overcoming eddy damping - Jason Twamley (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University)

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

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

12:00 PM Testing collapse models and gravity with levitated optomechanics - Matteo Carlesso (University of Trieste)
2:00 PM Session 8: Chair Yaakov Fein
Chair Yaakov Fein
2:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Room: Aula Renzo Leonardi
Contributions

2:00 PM Aspects of low-energy tests of quantum gravity - Martin Bodo Plenio (Ulm University)

2:40 PM Realization of a complete Stern-Gerlach interferometer: Towards a test of quantum gravity - Ron Folman (Ben-Gurion University)

3:20 PM Concluding remarks

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