Speaker
Sofia Qvarfort
(Stockholm University)
Description
Microscopic mirrors, levitated beads, and vibrating membranes are among the most massive resonator systems that we can currently cool to the quantum regime. With masses much higher than the single-atom scale, these systems are excellent candidates for testing the limits of quantum physics and gravity. In this talk, I will give a brief overview of this field and tell you about my own research, which concerns developing models of these systems in the laboratory, and asking how we can use them as probes of gravity.
