Igor Pikovski

Igor.pikovski[ at ]cfa.harvard.edu

Work featured in the news

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Detecting continuous gravitational waves with superfluid 4He [New J. Phys. 19, 073023 (2017)]

Physics World: How to detect gravitational waves using superfluid helium

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Gravitational wave detection with optical lattice atomic clocks [Phys. Rev. D 94, 124043 (2016)]

Forbes: Seeing Gravitational Waves With Atomic Clocks

Physics World: Atomic clocks in space could detect gravitational waves

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Breakthrough Starshot Initiative [http://breakthroughinitiatives.org/Initiative/3]

New York Times: Reaching for the Stars, Across 4.37 Light-Years

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Universal decoherence due to gravitational time dilation [Nature Phys. 11, 668-672 (2015)]

Inside Science: Wrinkle In Time Divides Quantum World From Everyday Reality

Nature News: How gravity kills Schrodinger's cat

ABC: General relativity explains why Schrodinger's cat is alive

New Scientist: Einstein kills Schrodinger's cat

Physics World: Does time dilation destroy quantum superposition?

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Probing Planck-scale physics with quantum optics [Nature Phys. 8, 393-397 (2012)]

Scientific American: Physicists eye quantum-gravity interface

Physics Today: An optical probe of quantum gravity?

Physics World: Table-top test targets quantum foam

Nature News ● Chad Orzel science blog ● Le Scienze ● ars technica

Die Presse ● Der Standard ● ORF

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Quantum interferometric visibility as a witness of general relativistic proper time [Nat. Comm. 2, 505 (2011)]

New Scientist: Gravity`s Secret: How relativity meets quantum physics

Scientific American: Could Simple Experiments Reveal the Quantum Nature of Spacetime?

Nature Asia Research Highlight ● Der Standard ● ORF

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Pulsed Quantum Optomechanics [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 108, 16182-16187 (2011)]

Nature Photonics Research Highlight ● Der Standard ● ORF

Last updated: August 2017