Event time:
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Location:
Sloane Physics Laboratory SPL, Room 57
217 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT
06511
Speaker/Performer:
Markus Aspelmeyer - University of Vienna
Admission:
Free
Event description:
No experiment today provides evidence that gravity requires a quantum description. The growing ability to achieve quantum optical control over massive solid-state objects may change that situation – by enabling experiments that directly probe the phenomenology of quantum states of gravitational source masses. This can lead to experimental outcomes that are inconsistent with the predictions of a purely classical field theory of gravity. Such ‘Quantum Cavendish’ experiments will rely on delocalized motional quantum states of sufficiently massive objects and gravity experiments on the micrometer scale. I review the current status in the lab and the challenges to be overcome for future experiments.
Host: Nir Navon (Nir.Navon@yale.edu)
Contact:
Jennifer Ongley