Research project is (co) funded by the Slovenian Research Agency.
UL Member: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Code: N1-0392
Project: Advancing Rotationally Induced Entanglement in the Lab
Period: 1. 1. 2025 - 31. 12. 2026
Range per year: 0,64 FTE, category: B
Head: Marko Toroš
Research activity: Natural sciences and mathematics
Project description:
Entanglement is a quintessential feature of quantum mechanics which plays a key role in applications ranging from quantum computation to quantum sensing. It also lies at the heart of many fundamental physics phenomena which challenge our ideas of what nature is. However, despite recent proposals to use entanglement generation as a metric to establish the quantum nature of various systems we are still lacking progress in bridging the gap between theory and experiments. There is a need to further develop fundamental concepts and then transform these into viable schemes that will allow to perform experimental tests.
The project will focus on non-inertial rotational motion as a route to investigate novel mechanisms for the generation of quantum entanglement. At the fundamental physics level, rotational motion is linked to gravitational physics by the equivalence principle, and has a pivotal role in various other areas of physics. At the practical level, the preliminary analysis suggests that new phenomenology and measurement schemes lie within the reach of table-top experiments.
The proposal will build the theoretical foundations for this nascent and exciting field of research. It will show that nonlocality can be generated with mechanical rotations providing concrete experimental blueprints. Moreover, it will lay the groundwork for new theoretical ideas in quantum Sagnac interferometry. Finally, the project will investigate the high risk and high gain hypothesis about the quantum nature of the processes underlying the generation of nonlocality.
