Institute of Physics Open Lecture hosted by The Open University

'Atom gyroscopes - exploiting quantumness of cold atoms for inertial sensing'

When: Tuesday 12 April, from 7.30pm

Where: Online

Speaker: Katarzyna Krzyzanowska 

Hosted by: Ben Dryer/Alice Dunford

Quantum Technologies is one of the fastest-growing research sector worldwide, because of the prospect of new ground breaking devices that can emerge from it. It includes applications such as quantum cryptography, quantum computing, or quantum sensing. I will start the talk with a brief overview of research conducted at LANL in the field of Quantum Technologies based on cold and ultracold atoms. This particular approach, also known as a cold atoms platform, exploits interactions between atoms and laser light to engineer quantum states useful for quantum sensing and quantum simulation.

Bio:

Katarzyna Krzyzanowska is a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory since 2018. Katarzyna earned her Ph.D. from The Open University (UK), where she worked on an experimental cold atoms platform for quantum computing in Silvia Bergamini’s research group. As a staff scientist, Katarzyna leads two projects and participates in numerous collaborative proposals developed across LANL. Her current research focuses on ultracold atom systems. In particular, using Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) guided in optical potentials for quantum sensing.

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