Saturday
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Future Prospects for Mechanical Systems in Quantum Technologies
The 2018 GRS and the following GRC mark one decade of the GRC series "Mechanical Systems in the Quantum Regime". Over the past ten years, we have witnessed the development of a number of different approaches that have successfully demonstrated operation of mechanical systems in their quantum ground states, as well as methods for controllably storing quantum states in these systems, using microwaves, light, and qubits as the control elements. I will briefly discuss the background leading to the most recent advances in this direction, and will make some guesses as to how mechanical systems might further advance the broader area of quantum technology. I will also describe some recent results from my group's efforts. Work is supported by grants from AFOSR, ARO, DOE and NSF.
Discussion Leader: Matthew Weaver (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
3:45 pm - 4:20 pm
Andrew Cleland (University of Chicago, USA)
"Ten Years of Mechanical Systems in the Quantum Regime"
4:20 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
State Transfer Mediated via Phonon Interactions / Controlled and Coupled Mechanical Systems
Discussion Leaders: Peter Burns (JILA, University of Colorado Boulder, USA) and Nils Johan Engelsen (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:40 pm - 7:55 pm
Mikolaj Schmidt (Macquarie University, Australia)
"Quantum State Transfer Across Noisy Channels in Nonlinear Waveguides"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm
Maria Ekstrom (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
"Routing of Propagating Microwave Phonons on the Quantum Level"
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Julian Huber (TU Wien, Austria)
"Structural Phase Transition in Micromechanical Power Grids"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Juha Muhonen (AMOLF, The Netherlands)
"Mechanical State Preparation and Tomography Close to the Quantum Regime with Nanosecond Light Pulses"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Katrin Gajo (University of Konstanz, Germany)
"Strong 4-Mode Coupling of Nanomechanical Resonators"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Dynamics of Levitated Objects / Sensing
Discussion Leaders: Uros Delic (University of Vienna, Austria) and Robinjeet Singh (Joint Quantum Institute / National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:25 am
Katja Kustura (Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) / University of Innsbruck, Austria)
"Quantum Dynamics of a Magnetically Levitated Nanomagnet"
9:25 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Charles Brown (Yale University, USA)
"Stable Levitation of Superfluid Helium: Optomechanics with Drops"
9:45 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:05 am
Stefan Kuhn (University of Vienna, Austria)
"Rotational Optomechanics with Levitated Silicon Nanorods"
10:05 am - 10:10 am
Discussion
10:10 am - 10:20 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Pardeep Kumar (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
"Magnetometry via Spin-Mechanical Coupling in Levitated Optomechanics"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Ying Li (University College London, United Kingdom)
"Developement and Field Testing of an Automated Portable Optomechanical Accelerometer"
10:55 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Non-Reciprocal and Topological Devices
Discussion Leader: Martin Koppenhoefer (University of Basel, Switzerland)
1:30 pm - 1:45 pm
Daniel Malz (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
"Quantum-Limited Directional Amplifiers with Optomechanics"
1:45 pm - 1:50 pm
Discussion
1:50 pm - 2:05 pm
Gabriel Peterson (NIST Boulder / University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
"Demonstration of Efficient Non-Reciprocity in a Microwave Optomechanical Circuit"
2:05 pm - 2:10 pm
Discussion
2:10 pm - 2:25 pm
Seunghwi Kim (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
"Chiral Phonons and Photons in an Optomechanical System"
2:25 pm - 2:30 pm
Discussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes