Engineering Mechanical Quantum Systems for Tomorrow's Technologies

The Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on Mechanical Systems in the Quantum Regime is a unique and off-the-record forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas. Given its confidential environment, participants are encouraged to freely discuss ongoing projects and unpublished data for problem solving and also to develop new collaborations and inspire scientific creativity.

Quantum technologies, such as quantum encryption and computing, are currently being developed to overcome limitations of today's classical devices. Mechanical oscillators are a valuable resource to interface, manipulate, and perform read-out of such quantum devices. However, several challenges remain for these devices to reach maturity. For example, quantum-level interactions need to be engineered between the mechanical oscillator and an interfaced system. This seminar will cover recent achievements and future prospects, both theoretically and experimentally, for using mechanical quantum systems to develop technologies used in quantum networks, quantum sensing, and quantum information processing.

The GRS offers the opportunity for young scientists to present their work to their peers not only in form of posters but also in form of oral presentations. We plan to have a diverse meeting; thus, we strongly encourage people from underrepresented groups and related fields of research to apply and to submit an abstract for an oral presentation. Please contact the chairs if there are funding issues.