Marco Menchetti, BT Quantum Research Specialist to speak at our Autumn 2020 virtual conference

Let's Get Physical - Autumn 2020 Virtual Conference
QUANTUM

Held on 12th - 16th October 2020: Five days of Physics goodness on 

- Optics
- Wireless
- PGR Spotlight day
- Quantum 
- Data Science & AI

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Marco joined BT in 2018, after finishing his PhD in cold atoms physics at Birmingham University with a thesis titled "Experimental set-up for realising long-range interaction using strontium atoms in an optical lattice". During his studies, he worked at NPL in London and the LENS in Florence.

At the moment he's working as a research specialist with the optical networks team. His research focus is  QKD and optical clock with the IqClock project.

He first visited England in 2008 when he worked as a pizzaiolo in London for the summer season.
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Atomic Clocks: The most precise instruments in the world.

If someone had started two atomic clocks during the Big Bang, those clocks wold now agree within about 2 seconds. Atomic clocks are so precise that they can measure the difference in the speed of time between your feet and your head. They do that by cooling a gas to a temperature of few micro kelvins (this is 0.000001 K above the absolute zero) and trapping the atom of the gas in an optical lattice generated by powerful lasers. Those atoms are then used as a reference to calibrate the clock.

Atomic clocks are starting now exiting the labs and now the question is: what can we do with such powerful instrument?
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