Speaker: Eduardo Martín Martínez
Affiliation: Institute for Quantum Computing (University of Waterloo) and Perimeter Institute (Ontario, Canada).
Date: Thursday, 18 December 2014 at 14:00
Location: Seminar Room, Serrano 121 (CFMAC)
We will explore a quantum mechanical method of detecting weak vibrational disturbances inspired by the protocol of entanglement farming, which is itself inspired in the harvesting of entanglement from the vacuum state of a quantum field. This setup consists of inherently non-relativistic quantum optics elements, where small relativistic effects (which are usually neglected) build up to give a non-negligible effect over long times. We will comment on the sensitivity of the setup and its prospects to be used in different fields from seismology to gravitational wave detection.