August 31, 2015
Professors Jay Sharping, Raymond Chiao and Lin Tian have recently received an award from DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office to study a quantum-mechanical effect called “squeezing”. Squeezing of Heisenberg’s uncertainty relationship occurs when obtains arbitrarily high precision (low uncertainty) measurements of one variable at while losing precision in another variable. The project, entitled “Generation and frequency conversion of quantum states in high-Q SRF parametric oscillators”, involves making a superconducting drum whose motion is driven and characterized using electromagnetic radiation.
