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ABSTRACT:
Quantum mechanics is a cornerstone of modern physics. Just as the 19th century was called the Machine Age and the 20th century the Information Age, the 21st century promises to go down in history as the Quantum Age. In the first part of the talk, I will describe how we have begun to use the counter-intuitive tools of quantum mechanics towards revolutionary concepts like building a quantum computer and quantum cryptography. We are truly beginning to appreciate the complexities of the theory and apply them in real physical implementations using different physical systems. However, can we really claim to fully understand quantum mechanical principles? How much do we really believe of what we know? Answers to such questions require us to revisit the fundamental postulates of quantum mechanics and perform precision theoretical and experimental investigations to come up with the right bounds. In the second part, I will describe such attempts by me and others in the last few years.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Urbasi Sinha is currently Associate Professor at the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore. Her Postdoctoral work was in the Institute for Quantum Computing, Waterloo, Canada and also at the Cavendish Laboratories, Cambridge. She did her PhD from the University of Cambridge. Her recent focus is on quantum optics based experiments, primarily targeted towards testing fundamentals of quantum mechanics as well as quantum computing
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