Quantum Sensing Workshop

14 Feb 2023, 08:00 → 16 Feb 2023, 17:00 US/Pacific

Building 015, Room 0253 (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Neil Gaspar (AWE), Peter Schwindt (Sandia National Laboratory), Scott Bisson (Sandia National Laboratory), Thomas Schenkel (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Please stay tuned as we add information to this site on the schedule of talks and breakout sessions etc. 

We have confirmed the following invited speakers, who will provide overview perspectives on quantum sensing in key areas.  The invited speakers are:

Ashok Ajoy, UC Berkeley and LBNL

Kai Bongs, University of Birmingham, UK

Miles Padget, University of Glasgow

Dave Farley, Sandia

DNN quantum sensing workshop-2022-Dec01.pdf

Tuesday 14 February

1 Welcome, and introductory remarks, Natalie Roe (Berkeley Lab), John Valentine (Berkeley Lab), tbd (Sandia), tbd (AWE), Craig Sloan (NNSA), Summer Stares (DNO)

Session I: Big Picture Session, Peter Schwindt (Sandia), chair

2 Workshop Goals; workshop chairs

3 Atom based quantum sensors

Speaker: Kai Bongs, University of Birmingham (University of Birmingham)

4 Novel Quantum Sensors with Hyperpolarized Nuclei

Speaker: Ashok Ajoy, University of California Berkeley (University of California Berkeley; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

5 Compressive sensing in spectroscopy: can less be more?

Speaker: Miles Padgett, University of Glasgow (University of Glasgow)

11:10 Break

6 Quantum sensing and applications to nonproliferation

Speaker: David Farley, Sandia National Laboratory (Sandia National Laboratory)

7 Panel Discussion

12:30 Lunch

Session II: Atoms Session, Scott Bisson (Sandia), chair

8 Atom interferometry 1.0 and 2.0 for inertial sensing

Speaker: Katarzyna Krzyzanowska, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

9 Cold Atom Interferometry applied to near field gravity tomography

Speaker: Stephen Libby, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

10 Realization of a guided matter wave gradiometer for gravity sensing applications

Speaker: Changhyun Ryu, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11 Developing compact atom interferometer devices

Speaker: Peter Schwindt, Sandia National Laboratory (Sandia National Laboratory)

12 Enrichment quantification of UF6 using low-field nuclear magnetic resonance with atomic magnetometer detection

Speaker: Per Magnelind, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:10 Break

13 Optically pumped magnetometers - the journey out of the lab

Speaker: Erling Riis, University of Strathclyde (University of Strathclyde)

14 Magnetic sensing and other laser-based applications

Speaker: Igor Savukov, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15 Magnetic field nulling and shaping for quantum technologies

Speaker: Mark Fromhold, University of Nottingham (University of Nottingham)

16 LANL MPA-Q (Quantum) capability overview

Speaker: Michael Martin, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

17 Atom Session Panel Discussion, report assignments

18 Tuesday Wrap Up Discussion

Wednesday 15 February

19 Announcements

Session III: Spins Session, Thomas Schenkel, chair

20 Magnetic Quantum Sensors for NNSA Programs

Speaker: Geon-Bo Kim, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

21 Quantum-Enabled Biochemical imaging at Rhizosphere

Speaker: Zhao Hao, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

22 Advanced electric field sensing/imaging technologies

Speaker: Yaun-Yu Jau, Sandia National Laboratory (Sandia National Laboratory)

23 Quantum Magnetic Imaging for Counterfeit Detection and Integrated-Circuit Interrogation

Speaker: Pauli Kehayias, Sandia National Laboratory (Sandia National Laboratory)

10:00 Break and Group Photo

24 Extending Quantum Spin Sensing to Large Areas/Volumes

Speaker: Stephen Lyon, Princeton University (Princeton University)

25 Quantum defect dephasing times from first-principles

Speaker: Liang Tan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

26 Spin Session Discussion, report assignments

Session IV: Photons Session, Jonathan Collard (AWE), chair

27 Coherent Quantum Sensing for Dark Matter Detection (axions, RF)

Speaker: Gianpaolo Carosi, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

28 Distributed Sensing in the Long Island Quantum Network

Speaker: Julian Martinez-Rincon, Brookhaven National Laboratory (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

12:20 Lunch

29 Quantum ghost imaging with non-degenerate photon pairs

Speaker: Ryan Duncan, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

30 Quantum sensing applications using entangled squeezed light

Speaker: Daniel Soh, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

31 Entangled photons for tamper indication

Speaker: Adrian King, Atomic Weapons Establishment (Atomic Weapons Establishment)

32 Compressive spectroscopy

Speaker: Adrian King, Atomic Weapons Establishment (Atomic Weapons Establishment)

33 Photons Session Discussion, report assignments

15:10 Break

Session V: Final Session, Ashok Ajoj (UC Berkeley and LBNL), chair

34 Qubit-based athermal-photon sensors for use in coherent neutrino scattering for reactor monitoring and other applications

Speaker: Caleb Fink, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

35 Quantum Enhanced Sensing of Isotopes (QESI)

Speaker: Laura McCaslin, Sandia National Laboratory (Sandia National Laboratory)

36 Quantum Networking

Speaker: Thomas Schenkel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

37 TBD

38 Panel Discussion

39 Wednesday Wrap Up Discussion, report assignments

18:00 Travel from Berkeley Lab to the UC Berkeley Faculty Club for dinner (https://www.berkeleyfacultyclub.com/visit/directions), ~20 min walk, or a short drive. Instructions for parking will be sent.

40 Cavity-based atom interferometry with long coherence time

Speaker: Holger Muller, University of California Berkeley (University of California Berkeley)

Thursday 16 February

41 The third day of the quantum sensing workshop is at Sandia, Livermore, by invitation. Please contact Lauren Betzen ([email protected]), Scott Bisson ([email protected]), or Peter Schwindt ([email protected]) for more information.