About QUINST

Quantum mechanics is at the heart of our technology and economy - the laser and the transistor are quantum devices - but its full potential is far from being realized. Recent technological advances in optics, nanoscience and engineering allow experimentalists to create artificial structures or put microscopic and mesoscopic systems under new manipulable conditions in which quantum phenomena play a fundamental role.

Quantum technologies exploit these effects with practical purposes. The objective of Quantum Science is to discover, study, and control quantum efects at a fundamental level. These are two sides of a virtuous circle: new technologies lead to the discovery and study of new phenomena that will lead to new technologies.

Our aim is  to control and understand quantum phenomena in a multidisciplinary intersection of  Quantum Information, Quantum optics and cold atoms, Quantum Control, Spintronics, Quantum metrology, Atom interferometry, Superconducting qubits and Circuit QED and Foundations of Quantum Mechanics.

QUINST is funded in part as a “Grupo Consolidado” from the Basque Government (IT472-10, IT986-16, IT1470-22)  and functions as a network of groups with their own funding, structure, and specific goals.  

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Seminar

Iñigo Urizar, (UPV/EHU)

When and where

From: 11/2010 To: 11/2016

Description

2009/12/15, Iñigo Urizar, (UPV/EHU)

Place: Sala de Seminarios del Departamento de Física Teórica e Historia de la Ciencia
Time: 12h.
Title: Number operator-annihilation operator uncertainty as an alternative of the number-phase uncertainty relation
 

Abstract
We consider the number operator-annihilation operator uncertainty as a well behaved alternative of the number-phase uncertainty relation, and examine its properties. We find a formulation in which the bound on the product of uncertainties depends on the expectation value of the particle number. Thus, while the bound is not a constant, it is a quantity that can be easily controlled in many systems. The uncertainty relation allows us to define amplitude squeezing, connecting coherent states to Fock states, without a reference to a phase operator. The uncertainty relation is approximately saturated by number-phase intelligent states.

Biscuits and soft drinks will be provided.