Quantum Initiative: Quantum Lunch

The Quantum Lunch is regularly held on Thursdays in the Theoretical Division Conference Room, TA-3, Building 123, Room 121.

The organizing committee includes Malcolm Boshier (P-21), Lukasz Cincio (T-4), Diego Dalvit (T-4), Changhyun Ryu (P-21) , Nikolai Sinitsyn (T-4), Rolando Somma (T-4), Yigit Subasi (T-4), Christopher Ticknor (T-1), and Wojciech Zurek (T-4).

For more information, or to nominate a speaker, contact Yigit Subasi or Lukasz Cincio.

To add your name to the Quantum Lunch email list, contact Amanda Martinez.

Thursday, August 16, 2018
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Speaker: Dan Carney (NIST)

Technical Host: Daniele Alves

TOPIC: Tabletop experiments for quantum gravity

Abstract
Recent advances in cooling, control, and measurement of mechanical systems in the quantum regime have opened the possibility of the first direct observation of quantum gravity, at scales achievable in experiments. I'll give a broad overview of this idea, discussing a representative set of experiments and how they can be used to test various models of the gravitational field coupled to quantum matter. Particular attention will be paid to perturbatively quantized general relativity viewed as an effective field theory.