{"id":3830,"date":"2013-11-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.hmc.edu\/physics\/2013\/11\/19\/continuous-measurement-of-the-position-of-a-single-cold-atom-towards-the-quantum-classical-transition\/"},"modified":"2013-11-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T00:00:00","slug":"continuous-measurement-of-the-position-of-a-single-cold-atom-towards-the-quantum-classical-transition","status":"publish","type":"physics_colloquium","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/research\/colloquium\/continuous-measurement-of-the-position-of-a-single-cold-atom-towards-the-quantum-classical-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuous Measurement of the Position of a Single Cold Atom: Towards the Quantum-Classical Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"page-featured-image\" class=\"wp-block-image is-style-alignleft\" data-pic=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/01\/\" alt=\"Promotional image for talk: Elements of a successful scientific talk\" data-pic=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Speaker(s):<\/strong> Dan Steck<\/p>\n<p>Quantum mechanics is fundamentally a theory of measurement, and recently a paradigm in quantum optics has arisen for describing the continuous measurement of quantum systems. \u00a0Interesting phenomena can happen in continuously observed systems, due to the interplay of the dynamical evolution and the measurement process. \u00a0In particular, the evolution of a quantum system under a continuous measurement process is both nonlinear and stochastic. \u00a0I will describe our interests in continuous measurements of atomic motion, especially in applying them in understanding the quantum\u2013classical transition for classically chaotic systems. \u00a0I will also describe our experimental progress towards studying these systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3830","physics_colloquium","type-physics_colloquium","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium\/3830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/physics_colloquium"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}