Organizing Committee Member
Dr.Almut Beige
Head of Theoretical Physics Group
University Of Leeds
United Kingdom
Biography
AB has completed her Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at the University of Göttingen in Germany in 1997. She then continued her studies as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Potsdam, Imperial College London, the Max-Planck-Institut für Quantum Optik in Garching and the University of Cambridge in the UK. Currently, she is a Reader and Head of the Theoretical Physics group of the University of Leeds, which she joined in 2005. To date, AB published more than 80 papers in the area of quantum optics and quantum information processing and currently supports the Journal of Modern Optics and the EPJ D as an editorial board member.
Research Area
Scattering Photons for Quantum In this talk, we have a closer look at different types of dynamics of photons with potential applications in quantum technology. The polarization states of photons are ideal carriers for quantum information since photons travel fast and are relatively robust against decoherence. At the same time, when traveling in free space, it remains difficult to create interactions and to generate entanglement between them. Nevertheless, photons can exhibit a wide range of dynamics. For example, photons in optical cavities with instantaneous quantum feedback can exhibit non-linear and non-ergodic dynamics with potential applications in quantum metrology. Moreover, we study the scattering of photons through semi-transparent mirrors, like beam splitters and mirrors, with applications in quantum information processing. For example, we show that photons can induce long-range interactions between atoms on either side of a semi-transparent mirror for applications in quantum sensing.