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Cindy Regal is an experimental physicist who works in quantum optics. She uses laser cooling techniques and optical tweezers to trap particles in individual states. This allows her lab to measure extremely small forces in the quantum limit and enable quantum information to be communicated through optical light.
Cindy Regal earned her B.A. in Physics in 2001, then went on to pursue a Ph.D. at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2006. During her Ph.D., she created the first experimental realization of a fermionic condensate. This work was important for linking BCS superconductors and Bose-Einstein condensates, making steps toward the development of a room temperature superconductor (which still has not been created!).
Cindy is now a professor of physics at University of Colorado, Boulder, and her lab works on a variety of different quantum optics applications, such as cavity optomechanics, electro-optic quantum converters, and many applications of optical tweezers.
Cindy Regal’s research on low-noise and high efficiency work on quantum states has many applications to quantum computing, which is the future of high-performance computing and the development of a room temperature superconductor, a long-unsolved problem in physics.
Additionally, Cindy works on optical tweezers, which can be used to manipulate micro and nano-scale particles and materials in a non-invasive manner, with broad application from DNA manipulation, studying interactions of particles with single photons (quantum optomechanics), creating new materials, and more.
Slides by: Mikey Baker