Research Areas - (1) Multiparticle Levitated Optomechanics Quantum Sensing (Vijayan)

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Jayadev Vijayan 🔗
University of Manchester 🔗
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Department(s)/lab(s): Electrical & Electronic Engineering – Photon Science Institute | Quantum Engineering Lab (Vijayan Group) @ Manchester
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Vijayan leads the Quantum Engineering Lab at Manchester's Photon Science Institute, focusing on levitated optomechanics. Key results: (1) Programmable cavity-mediated long-range interactions between two levitated nanoparticles via coherently scattered photons (Nature Physics 2024, ETH Zurich/Innsbruck collaboration before Manchester); (2) Ground-state cooling of nanospheres and building toward quantum superpositions; (3) Quantum sensing with levitated systems — ultra-sensitive force/acceleration detectors; dark matter searches with nanoparticle momentum transfer detection (QTFP-funded collaboration with Darren Price); (4) Multi-particle quantum arrays. Royal Society University Research Fellow. Currently advertising PhD positions in quantum sensing with levitated optomechanical systems. Collaborates with Novotny (ETH), Romero-Isart (Innsbruck), and Millen (King's College London).