Oriol Romero-Isart works on proposing experiments and developing the underlying theory to bring macroscopic objects, such as nano- and microspheres, into the quantum regime. The motivation for this project is that laser light, which has been the ubiquitous tool in recent decades to control and manipulate quantum systems, poses fundamental limitations, such as heating and decoherence due to photon scattering and absorption, and a minimum length scale to achieve coherent control due to the diffraction limit. Oriol wants to overcome these obstacles. Together with his team at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), he proposes experiments and derives the underlying theory in which magnetic fields and superconductors are used to exploit quantum degrees of freedom in order to access an unprecedented parameter regime in the fields of quantum micro- and nanomechanical oscillators, quantum simulation with ultracold atoms and solid-state quantum information processing.

More information: https://iqoqi.at/en/romero-isart-group-page

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