Why Build a Quantum Transducer?
A deep dive into the motivation for behind my postdoc research. What do microwaves and lasers have to do with communication? And what changes when I insist on repeating the word “quantum” twice in every sentence?
Of Lifetimes and Linewidths
Resonance can help us understand a deep connection between time and frequency characteristic of all waves, from light to acoustics to the wavefunctions of quantum mechanics.
Frequency Shifts Do Not Imply Quantum Entanglement
Demystifying the tardigrade-induced frequency shift with a mass, a spring, and a trip to Singapore in the year 8022.
Putting the Mechanics in Quantum Mechanics
How the tools of quantum optomechanics could one day be used to put a macroscopic object into a quantum superposition.
How Does an Axion Detector Work?
Looking under the hood of an axion dark matter detector: how it works, how the laws of quantum mechanics limit its sensitivity, and why you shouldn’t hold your breath until dark matter is discovered.
The Uses of Natural Units
During my first semester of grad school I worked as a teaching assistant for a freshman physics lab, where I occasionally encountered statements like “the mass of the ball was ten.”