Sofia Qvarfort
About me
Sofia Qvarfort is a postdoctoral researcher at Stockholm University and Nordita funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship and a Wallenberg Initiative for Networks and Quantum Information Fellowship. She works on quantum physics for the development of quantum technologies such as quantum sensing for gravity and weak-force detection. She also works with developing analytic models for nonlinear quantum dynamics.
Publications
My research interests include quantum information, quantum optics, linear and nonlinear quantum mdynamics, quantum sensing for gravity and weak forces.
A selection from Stockholm University publication database
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Constraining modified gravity with quantum optomechanics
2022. Sofia Qvarfort, Dennis Rätzel, Stephen Stopyra. New Journal of Physics 24 (3)
ArticleRead more about Constraining modified gravity with quantum optomechanicsWe derive the best possible bounds that can be placed on Yukawa- and chameleon-like modifications to the Newtonian gravitational potential with a cavity optomechanical quantum sensor. By modelling the effects on an oscillating source-sphere on the optomechanical system from first-principles, we derive the fundamental sensitivity with which these modifications can be detected in the absence of environmental noise. In particular, we take into account the large size of the optomechanical probe compared with the range of the fifth forces that we wish to probe and quantify the resulting screening effect when both the source and probe are spherical. Our results show that optomechanical systems in high vacuum could, in principle, further constrain the parameters of chameleon-like modifications to Newtonian gravity.
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Two-mode Schrödinger-cat states with nonlinear optomechanics: generation and verification of non-Gaussian mechanical entanglement
2022. Lydia A. Kanari-Naish (et al.). Quantum Science and Technology 7 (3)
ArticleRead more about Two-mode Schrödinger-cat states with nonlinear optomechanicsCavity quantum optomechanics has emerged as a new platform for quantum science and technology with applications ranging from quantum-information processing to tests of the foundations of physics. Of crucial importance for optomechanics is the generation and verification of non-Gaussian states of motion and a key outstanding challenge is the observation of a canonical two-mode Schrödinger-cat state in the displacement of two mechanical oscillators. In this work, we introduce a pulsed approach that utilizes the nonlinearity of the radiation–pressure interaction combined with photon-counting measurements to generate this entangled non-Gaussian mechanical state, and, importantly, describe a protocol using subsequent pulsed interactions to verify the non-Gaussian entanglement generated. Our pulsed verification protocol allows quadrature moments of the two mechanical oscillators to be measured up to any finite order providing a toolset for experimental characterisation of bipartite mechanical quantum states and allowing a broad range of inseparability criteria to be evaluated. Key experimental factors, such as optical loss and open-system dynamics, are carefully analyzed and we show that the scheme is feasible with only minor improvements to current experiments that operate outside the resolved-sideband regime. Our scheme provides a new avenue for quantum experiments with entangled mechanical oscillators and offers significant potential for further research and development that utilizes such non-Gaussian states for quantum-information and sensing applications, and for studying the quantum-to-classical transition.
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