Gravitationally Induced Decoherence
Department of Physics
Location: Burchard 103
Speaker: Miles Blencowe, Dartmouth College
ABSTRACT
Is gravity the ultimate environment for enforcing classicality in macroscopic mass objects? In this presentation, I will begin with a brief historical overview of work concerning the former question, and then outline our own relevant own work in progress, including a particularly fruitful analogy with optomechanical systems.
BIOGRAPHY
Miles Blencowe obtained his PhD with Prof. Chris Isham at Imperial College in 1989 in quantum gravity. After several postdocs, he joined the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College in 1999, hired initially as a condensed matter theorist. In recent years, he has almost returned to his PhD roots, concentrating his research efforts within the field of gravitational quantum physics. He currently holds the Eleanor and A. Kelvin Smith Distinguished Professorship in Physics.
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