Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute
New Student Orientation
Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute Room 311, 2235 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaNew students are invited to learn about the Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute (Blusson QMI) from our Scientific Director, Andrea Damascelli, and gain practical advice from other members of Blusson QMI and the student committee. Save the date and await more information in the upcoming days. Lunch will be served.
New Frontiers in Quantum Materials Research 2021
Virtual eventShabir Barzanjeh: Microwave entanglement generation and its application in quantum sensing
BRIM 311 2355 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaSpeaker: Shabir Barzanjeh, Asst. Prof., University of Calgary Abstract: The recent interest in mechanical quantum systems is driven not only by fundamental tests of quantum gravity but also by developing a new generation of hybrid quantum technologies. Here I confirm the long-standing prediction that a parametrically driven mechanical oscillator can entangle electromagnetic fields. We observe stationary […]
Unboxing Quantum: Seeing the World in a Different Light
Virtual eventEveryday, the interaction between light and matter is giving us information about the world that we live in through our eyes. But the range of frequencies that our eyes are sensitive to -- visible light -- is extremely limited. How does light interact with matter on other frequencies? And how can we leverage light-matter interaction […]
R. Jason Jones: Frequency Comb Spectroscopy of Laser Produced Plasmas
Professor R. Jason Jones - University of Arizona Title: Frequency Comb Spectroscopy of Laser Produced Plasmas When: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 11am Where: QMI 488 Abstract: In this talk I’ll give an overview of our work developing spectroscopic techniques with frequency comb sources from the XUV to the MIR. In particular, I’ll focus on our […]
Unboxing Quantum: Spooky Action
Virtual eventSpooky Action at a Distance Quantum Entanglement and Spooky Action won the Nobel Prize in physics this year. Once considered a boogieman in physicists' closets, quantum entanglement is one of the weirdest, most unintuitive phenomena in the natural world. Dubbed “spooky action at a distance” by Einstein himself, this quantum behavior puzzled scientists for years […]