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Physics Colloquium: Markus Aspelmeyer (University of Vienna, Austria), Title: "How does a quantum object gravitate?"

Speaker: Markus Aspelmeyer (University of Vienna, Austria)
Date: 11/16/2022
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Event Contact: Kelly Darr
12173007821
khdarr@illinois.edu
Sponsor: Department of Physics
Event Type: Lecture
 

No experiment today provides evidence that gravity requires a quantum description. The growing ability to achieve quantum optical control over massive solid-state objects may change that situation – by enabling experiments that directly probe the phenomenology of quantum states of gravitational source masses. I will review the current status in the lab and the challenges to be overcome for future experiments.