Wright Lab research represented at 2025 APS Global Physics Summit

The 2025 Joint March and April meetings of the American Physical Society (APS)—referred to as the APS Global Physics Summit—was a scientific research conference that brought together more than 14,000 physicists from around the world to showcase their work, connect with others, and discover groundbreaking physics research. 

Yale Physics was well-represented at the conference, with several members of Wright Lab presenting or represented as contributing authors.  Please see below for additional information.

Invited talks:

• Konrad Lehnert, Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, Microwave to Optical Transduction

• David Moore, Associate Professor of Physics, Mechanical Detection of Single Nuclear Decays

Contributed talk presenters: 

• Georgios Ploumis, Graduate Student (Demers), Implementation of H → ττ End-of-Fill triggers in data taking for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (Wright Lab co-author: Sarah Demers) 

Additional contributed talks that include Wright Lab authors: 

• Optomechanical quantum control of long-lived phononic modes in microfabricated high overtone bulk acoustic wave resonators (Wright Lab co-author: Jack Harris)

Focus session talks:

• Cyril Metzger, Postdoctoral Associate (Lehnert), TLS-induced thermal nonlinearity in phononic crystal defect resonators (Wright Lab co-author Lehnert)

• Yinchen Hao, Graduate Student (Jack Harris), Optical Whispering Gallery Modes In Levitated Superfluid Helium Drops  (Wright Lab co-authors: Igor Brandao, Chitres Guria, Jack Harris, Theophilus Human,  Yogesh Patil, Ingrid Slattery) 

Additional focus session talks that include Wright Lab authors: 

• Engineering the phononic density of states in a flip-chip electro-optomechanical system (Lehnert)

• Thin-film quartz for high-coherence piezoelectric phononic crystal resonators (Wright Lab co-authors Lehnert, Metzger)

• Measurement of a microwave cavity via hybridization with a remote Josephson circuit (Lehnert)

•  TLS-induced thermal nonlinearity in phononic crystal defect resonators (Lehnert)

Additional session talks that include Wright Lab authors:

• A persistent-current-biased and current-actuated tunable coupler for modular quantum network (Lehnert)

• Noise performance of a high-throughput microwave-optical transducer in upconversion and downconversion (Part 1) (Lehnert)

•  Noise performance of a high-throughput microwave-optical transducer in upconversion and downconversion (Part II) (Lehnert)

•  Opto-Electro-Mechanical Transduction of Noisy Coherent States (Lehnert)

• Coherent microwave single-photon source for a mechanically mediated electro-optic transducer (Lehnert)

Poster session

• Vasilisa K Malenkiy, Undergraduate Student (Moore), An Inkjet-Based Microsphere Loading System for Optical Precision Levitation in Sterile Neutrino Searches (Wright Lab co-authors: Jackie Baeza-Rubio, Lucas Darroch, Cecily Lowe, Aaron Markowitz, Siddhant Mehrotra, Moore, Thomas Penny, Benjamin Siegel, Yu-Han Tseng, Jiaxiang Wang)