Tori Borish - Using Giant Atoms to Create Nature’s Best Rulers

 Using Giant Atoms to Create Nature’s Best Rulers

Is there a limit to how precisely you can measure something? In this talk, I will discuss a fundamental limit to measurements and how we can use quantum systems (focusing on the example of highly excited neutral atoms) to overcome this. I will also discuss my path through physics, including working in a physics lab abroad between undergrad and graduate school, how I ended up in my research field, and what it’s like to be the first graduate student building up a new atomic physics experiment.

 Tori Borish

 Shleier-Smith Lab, Stanford University