Abstract
We are living in the time of the Second quantum revolution and a global effort towards turning the puzzling curiosities of quantum mechanics into quantum-enhanced technologies. However, not only single atoms or single photons are quantum objects.
In this talk I will show how we are pushing the boarder between quantum and classical word unveiling quantum properties of intense laser pulses or of warm atomic clouds. This is not just about quantum magic, this is about harnessing them for quantum secure communication using merely laser light, for quantum integrated circuits or for high-resolution quantum sensing. Even more contraintuitive is a possibility to harness the main foe of quantum states, dissipation, to create quantum entanglement or to engineer quantum states for technological applications.
Biography
Natalia Korolkova is a Professor at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK and since 2003 leads there the Theoretical Quantum Information group. Natalia received her PhD in theoretical quantum optics in 1996 from Moscow State University. After a postdoctoral stay at the Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic, in 1997 Natalia came to the University Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany, first as a Humboldt Fellow, then leading the Quantum Information group there in 1999-2003. Her expertise lies in quantum information processing using quantum continuous variables of light and matter, including open quantum systems.
Cake and coffee/tea will be served from 11:00 to 11.15. The talk starts shortly after.