Thursday, June 2, 2016, Wilder 102, 2:00 PM Oscar Friedman, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College Title: The Wigner Flow Function for Open Quantum Systems
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Dartmouth post-doc Alexa Halford's latest paper using BARREL data is highlighted in a NASA article. BARREL was designed to study how electrons from Earth’s radiation belts – vast swaths of particles trapped in Earth’s magnetic field hundreds of miles above the surface – can make their way down into the atmosphere. The BARREL campaign is primarily tasked with supplementing observations by NASA’s Van Allen Probes, which are dedicated to studying these radiation belts. However, solar energetic electrons happen to be in the same energy range as those radiation belt electrons, meaning that BARREL can see both.
[more]Monday, May 30, 2016, Wilder 202, 10:00 AM Kathryn Waychoff, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College Title: Zonal Wind Variability of the Jovian Planets Abstract:
[more]Thursday, May 26, 2016, Wilder 104, 2:00 PM Jonathan Vandermause, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College Title: Characterization and Control of Nuclear Spin Systems
[more]This project maps the stochastic and deterministic dynamics of open and closed quantum systems to analog circuit architectures and motifs. Such motifs may then be used to both map quantum systems to analog supercomputing chips, and to design novel quantum circuits. Many common circuit themes in analog and quantum computation include noise and thermodynamics, fault tolerance, feedback control, back action and loading, entanglement and correlation, precision measurement, nonlinear dynamics, robustness-efficiency tradeoffs, scalability, and hybrid quantum-classical operation.
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