Optomechanical cooling with coherent and squeezed light and frequency-dependent mirrors: The thermodynamic cost of opening the heat valve
Optomechanical devices provide a high degree of control over the optical and mechanical degrees of freedom of their constituents. These devices are therefore particularly suitable for sensing applications but also for performing fundamental tests of…
What could we learn from table top quantum gravity?
It’s not straight-forward to adequately and uncontroversially explain, in terms of theory testing alone, the significance of difficult proposed experiments to produce and observe gravitationally induced entanglement (GIE).
In this talk, I will start by describing Einstein's original understanding of coordinate systems and how that understanding led to the hole argument and a detour in the creation of general relativity.
The Many Worlds Interpretation, Holism, and the Born Rule
Everettianism is a realist many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics whose popularity has grown after Wallace (2012) resolved the objection that it cannot recover the Born rule.
I will talk about a method to leverage the Bell nonlocality of quantum physics to certify indefinite causal order in the quantum switch in the presence of partial knowledge of the causal structure.
The Role of Error and Imagination in the Making of Science: The Case of the Non-Cloning Theorem
As chronicled by MIT historian of physics, David Kaiser, in his 2011 book, How the Hippies Saved Physics, Nick Herbert, a Stanford physicist, had his FLASH paper submitted to Foundations of Physics in 1981.
Operational models of ‘temperature superpositions’
The interplay between quantum theory, thermodynamics, and general relativity emerges as a promising direction for new insights as thermalisation processes often arise in scenarios of importance for the interplay of quantum and gravitational physics.
New insights into causal inference from the point of view of a quantum physicist
The area of causal inference formalizes long-held human intuitions about cause and effect that were previously absent from scientific…
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