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Abstract: The topic of this talk is matterwave interferometry with large-mass particles (molecules, nanoparticles). I will discuss recent progress with optomechanics experiments of trapped nanoparticles, and as well as experiments with Meissner-levitated micrometer-sized ferromagnets above a type-1 superconductor. Technology developed for such trapping experiments may eventually lead to setting up of large-mass matterwave interferometers. I will motivate such large-mass interferometry experiments by their ability for testing fundamental physics theories (quantum mechanics and gravity) in a new parameter regime.  I will mention two concrete experimentally feasible studies/proposals for such tests.

Hendrik Ulbricht, Professor of Physics, University of Southampton

Host: Andrew Geraci

Keywords: CFP, Physics