The Bounds of Mechanical Systems From Probes of New Physics to Hardware for Quantum Technologies

The GRS offers every participant the opportunity to present in the form of posters, and showcases outstanding works as oral presentations. The "off-the-record" environment fosters free discussions about on-going projects and unpublished data, the development of new collaborations, and a chance to inspire scientific creativity. We aim to have a diverse meeting; thus, we strongly encourage people from underrepresented groups and related fields of research to apply and also submit an abstract for an oral presentation.

The focus of the session will be on understanding, both theoretically and experimentally,  what can and cannot be done with mechanical systems close to the quantum regime. The sheer variety of platforms and technologies we have today has enabled accessing various degrees of quantum coherent operation. Nonetheless, major challenges remain in the understanding of how dissipation, multi-partite interaction, and non-linearity influence quantum coherence in the wildly diverse pool of mechanical systems, the solutions of which will ultimately define the bounds of its applications to sensing, information processing, and testing fundamental physics.