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Abstract: Laser and quantum science have fueled revolutionary developments in atomic and fundamental physics. Scaling up quantum systems to increasingly large sizes promises to revolutionize the performance of atomic clocks and bring opportunities for new discovery. Quantum technology has brought tens of thousands of atoms to minute-long coherence times, enabling the achievement of best measurement precision and accuracy. The combination of ultrafast optics and precision metrology has brought us new tools for nuclear physics, leading to the recent breakthrough of quantum-state-resolved laser spectroscopy of thorium-229 nuclear transition. The permeation of quantum metrology to all corners of physics sparks new ideas for testing fundamental laws of nature and searching for new physics. 

Speaker: June Ye; JILA, NIST, University of Colorado, Boulder

Host: Gerald Gabrielse

Keywords: CFP, Physics