Alexander Stibor, Herman Batelaan, Ben McMorran
This symposium is dedicated to the exploration of quantum technology and the physics of free electrons. Recent advancements in nanotechnology and ultrafast lasers have enabled precise manipulation of individual free electrons, alongside enhanced control over electron spin. Consequently, the research community is increasingly intrigued by the quantum interactions of these electrons within their environment. This symposium aims to address various aspects of this emerging field, including the refinement of electron microscopy and spectroscopy techniques, as well as the development of novel technologies such as quantum degenerate electron beams, quantum electron microscopy, and the entanglement of free electrons with photons, plasmons, and mesoscopic structural states. Additionally, the symposium intends to emphasize the study of Coulomb-induced decoherence and explore cutting-edge developments such as interaction-free electron detection, and harnessing electron spin as a quantum probe. Given its strong ties to users in this field and its commitment to advancing quantum instrumentation and tools involving coherent free electrons, the Molecular Foundry is ideally positioned to host such a symposium..
Thursday, August 15
Symposium Location: B50 – Auditorium
Symposium Schedule:
12:45 – 1:15 pm
Quantum Force and Space-Time Topology
Herman Batelaan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1:15 – 1:30 pm
Optical Near-field Electron Microscopy
Thomas Juffmann, University of Vienna, Austria
1:30- 1:45 pm
Single-Particle Coupling in Event-Based Electron Microscopy
Armin Feist, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Germany
1:45 – 2:00 pm
Coherence, correlations, and statistics of ultrashort electron pulses
Stefan Meier, Department of Physics, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
2:00 – 2:15 pm
Direct observation of sub-Poissonian temporal statistics of free electrons with sub-ps resolution
Simona Borrelli, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
2:15 – 2:45 pm
Break
2:45 – 3:15 pm
A laser phase plate for transmission electron microscopy
Petar Nikolov Petrov, University of California, Berkeley
3:15- 3:45 pm
Plasmon Excitation and Interaction-Free Measurements with Electron Mach- Zehnder Interferometry
Andrew Ducharme, University of Oregon
3:45 – 4:00 pm
Current efforts to test quantum dissipation theory
Paul Puente, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
4:00 – 4:15 pm
Degeneracy and Coulomb effects in the emission of free electrons
Arjun Uppath Mohanan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln